With summertime funding from a nonprofit that promotes peace, Bojana Drča ’24 and Usira Ali ’22 will help communities in their home cities of Belgrade, Serbia, and Portland, Maine. This is the first time that two Bowdoin students (rather than one) were recipients of awards from Projects for Peace, a nonprofit that supports young “peace builders and change …
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Srinagar- Two students of DPS Srinagar, Areen Afaq Ashai of Class 10th and Rahil Ayoub Thakur of Class 12th from DPS Srinagar have received the Global STEM Change maker Scholarship for 2022. This new initiative aims to provide 5,000 young people worldwide with immersive learning experiences through STEM, global competence, and sustainability-focused intercultural exchange programs. The …
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For Advanced Micro Devices’ (AMD) India head Jaya Jagadish, a career in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) felt like the most obvious choice. But as a woman, there are always glass ceilings to break and biases to overcome. “As a young engineering student in the 90s, I remember being told by one of my professors that ‘I …
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Geetanjali Shree is a Delhi-based author whose book Ret Samadhi, translated into English as ‘Tomb of Sand’ has been longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022. Delhi-based writer Geetanjali Shree’s 2019 novel Ret Samadhi has created history by becoming the first Hindi work of fiction to be longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Translated into English by …
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Dr Rashmi Singh, IAS and a changemaker in public service, emphasised the need for a feminine style of leadership to shape a better development discourse and gender-sensitive planning at the HerStory Women on a Mission Summit 2022. Speaking at the HerStory Women on a Mission summit, Dr Rashmi Singh, IAS (Indian Administrative Services) and Executive Director, National Mission for Empowerment …
