Indian Students selected for gates Cambridge scholarships!!!
Submitted byDaya on 12/06/2009 - 05:50 PM
Six Indian students have won prestigious Gates Scholarships to study at the University of Cambridge!!. The six are among 90 students from 32 countries around the world who have been selected from a field of over 6,700 applicants.
The scholarship programme, set up in 2000 and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, enables postgraduates with a strong interest in social leadership and responsibility to study at the University of Cambridge.
The six Indian scholars, who were selected after interviews in India in April, will begin their studies in the autumn.
1. They include Anjali Bhardwai Datta, a lecturer at the University of Delhi. Her PhD in History will be a comparative study of partition in West and East India through case studies of Delhi and Calcutta. Her chief focus will be the role of women. She has already published research papers in leading international journals and is involved in working with organizations promoting female emancipation.
2. Yama Dixit, an environmental scientist from Jawaharlal Nehru University, will do a PhD in Earth Sciences at Cambridge, looking at whether environmental change was behind the collapse of the Harappan Civilisation and whether her findings can shed light on links between climate and civilisational activities. She is a trained Kathak dancer and has organized basic education classes to street children.
3. Mathew Madhavacheril from the University of Delhi will complete his physics degree at Cambridge, doing research at the Cambridge Centre for Quantum Computation.
4. Pritika Pradhan from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, who will complete her undergraduate studies in English at Cambridge.
5. Kiran Rachuri, a masters student from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, who will do a PhD in computer science, focusing on wireless sensor networks used in health monitoring, home and industry automation, military systems and environmental monitoring.
6. Anish Vanaik from Jawaharlal Nehru University who will study for a PhD in history at Cambridge.
Hi Daya, first of all hearty congratulation for all six students. It is pleasure that our Indian students have been selected for the scholarship programme in Cambridge.
