SN Bose Program - 30/72 - WINStep Forward

33rd Steenbock Symposium

Khorana Program Promoting Scientific Cooperation between India and the United States

Wisconsin’s strength in basic science research is complemented by its strength in the agricultural sciences. Since March, 2008, the Khorana Program has initiated cooperation with several organizations, including Mahindra and Mahindra (soils),the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (dairy), the Agricultural Consultancy Management Foundation (demonstration farms),Tasty Bite (vegetables), and Punjab Agricultural University (entomology). Armed with a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) grant, we worked

2016 Khorana Scholar Summer Research Results Published

As a 2015 Khorana Scholar, Charul Agrawal did her research at John Hopkins University under Professor Anthony Leung, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. A few weeks ago, Dr. Leung emailed WINStep Forward that Charul’s work on ADP-ribosulation had been published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research as a six-page

Why Are The Children Not Going To School?

A discussion on scenario of student-teacher atmosphere in villages of Kharagpur written by Khorana-Bose Scholar Ashwini Gupta “The unsatisfactory quality of elementary education has been a serious concern for India at the least for the last four decades. Many quality improvement programmes have been devised and implemented at State and national levels; but they all

Human Rights Work

Here is an article written by Yashvi Singh who is from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli: “During June-August 2015, I interned with People’s Union for Civil Liberties(PUCL) under Digital Media Team. People’s Union for Civil Liberties is a human rights body formed in India in 1976 by socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan, as the People’s Union for Civil Liberties

Students Start AIESEC Club

“Last year around this time in July, a friend of mine and I were talking about starting a club in our college. AIESEC. It was still in a very embryonic stage and we didn’t really take it seriously. Towards the end of July we started embracing the idea and working for it. Now, almost a

Teaching Students in Khanjarpur, India.JPG

Teaching Science

Somesh Mohapatra is currently the General Secretary of National Service Scheme in the Social Service Wing of IIT Roorkee. Attached in a photo from teaching students in Khanjarpur, India. “Usually students choose STEM as their discipline or career, while for me, it is life. All things revolve around it and I would like to make an impact

Mental Health Awareness

This article is by Bhargav Sanketi. Bhargav shares what he is truly passionate about and how he acts on that outside of the research field: “Ever since I was a child, I was always fascinated by the human brain. So naturally I was inclined towards topics in biology, psychology, etc. After finishing high school, I

A Quest for Knowledge: The Role of Society in Learning

Written by Sudharshan Suresh, 2016 Khorana-Bose Scholar “Here I wish to talk about education and the dissemination of knowledge in our country, or the lack thereof. Countless words have been spoken on the lack of basic education amongst our populace and the vapid commercialization of the industry – I do not wish to talk

Chicago Event in October!