Last week a few of the UW Madison Khorana and SN Bose scholars had the chance to go on a boat ride with Eric, WINStep Team Member and his wife. On one of the hottest days of the summer, they got to enjoy time spent on the lake! Since there are such a high number
Read MoreDuring the summer of 2019, our Program Coordinator, Lexi had an opportunity to visit India for a few weeks. She was traveling mostly in Southern India, spending time with friends and volunteering with different people who had charitable programs. Below are some photos from Lexi’s trip including eating on a banana leaf, visiting friends, visiting
Read MoreCheshta Bhatia, student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali- India, is a Khorana fellow this year, 2019 . She is currently a Khorana intern at Harvard University who did a previous summer internship with Dr. Lav Varshney at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. Read more to find out how
Read MoreOn June 30th, 2019 SN Bose and Khorana scholars who are doing their research internship at the University of Wisconsin Madison come together with the founders of WINStep Forward, Aseem Ansari and Naveeda, as well as former scholars for a lunch at local Indian restaurant in Madison WI. This is a sweet time of community,
Read MoreWINStep Forward and Namaste Madison recently hosted a Meet and Greet in Madison, WI for the new Consul General of the Chicago Consulate, Shri Sudhakar Dalela. The new appointed Consul has been meeting with the regional Indian diaspora on his travels across the midwestern states under the Chicago Consulate’s jurisdiction. His first visit to Madison,
Read More2018 Khorana Scholar Dibin Baby Co-Authors a Paper at University of Maryland Improving plant genome editing with high-fidelity xCas9 and non-canonical PAM-targeting Cas9-NG Abstract Engineered SpCas9 variants, namely xCas9 and Cas9-NG, have shown promising potential on improving targeting specificity and broadening the targeting range. In this study, we evaluated these Cas9 variants in the model
Read More150 Sci-ROI members attend YIM2016, Chicago A three-day Young Investigators Meeting – Chicago (YIM-C) was held at the Consulate of India, Chicago and the prestigious University of Chicago with about 150 young Indian scientists gathering in the windy city to discuss ways for getting the best of minds back to their country, India. The first
Read MorePress Release YIM-C 2017 Science and Research Opportunities in India (Sci-ROI; https://sciroi.net/) a volunteer not-for-profit organization composed of research scientists, postdoctoral scholars, students, engineers and entrepreneurs, successfully held their second Young Investigators Meeting in Chicago (YIM-C 2017). Sci-ROI encapsulates the notion of Science-Return on Investment, and YIM-C 2017 brought together nearly 300 young Indian
Read MoreThis year’s Young Investigators Meeting, YIM-C 2018, was held at the University of Chicago from September 7-9, making this the fourth year that the Science and Research Opportunities in India non-profit (Sci-ROI) has hosted the STEM based forum. Comprised of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, entrepreneurs, and science policy makers, the YIM-C meetings are unique in their
Read MoreWINStep CEO and and Executive Director Naveeda Qadir were fortunate to be able to spend some quality time with the University of San Diego Khorana Bose Alumni Chapter this past summer. Dr. Ansari squeezed in time to attend Khorana Alum Annie Rathore’s PhD defense. Annie was a 2013 Khorana Scholar and returned to Scripps for
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