Dr. ANNE C. LARKIN has been promoted to vice provost for educational affairs at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, a newly created position including responsibility for creating an inclusive process to implement the educational goals of the school’s IMPACT 2025 Strategic Plan as well as oversight of crucial educational resources that support the school’s educational mission. Larkin was previously senior associate dean for educational affairs at UMass Medical School, and is vice chair and associate professor of surgery, specializing in breast and endocrine surgery.
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PARTH CHAKRABARTI has been named the new executive vice chancellor for innovation and business development at UMass Medical School in Worcester. Chakrabarti began his career as a medicinal chemist before growing into business leadership roles in major industry firms, including Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Sanofi Genzyme, Becton Dickinson and Amgen. He most recently served as vice preside
And United Nations research suggests the cost of living is only going to get worse in our urban centres, with close to one in seven people globally tipped to call cities home by 2050. Many of these growing centres are fighting back, and academics say there are lessons to be learned in New Zealand. Philippa Howden-Chapman, Wellington-based University of Otago professor and director of the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities, highlights the work done in Singapore, Germany, and the Nordic countries.
Ross Giblin
Academic Philippa Howden-Chapman says New Zealand can learn a lot from what other countries are doing on housing.
IIT-Delhi to come up with many big inventions soon: Director
By IANS| Published: 25th January 2021 9:01 pm IST
By Ganesh Bhatt
New Delhi, Jan 25 : Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, counted among the best educational institutions, is soon going to dedicate several new innovations to the nation. IIT-Delhi Director V Ramgopal Rao tells in an exclusive interview to IANS how the institute has endeavoured to fight coronavirus pandemic and what the situation vis-a-vis job placements and new courses in the IIT is. Excerpts:
Q: Which new innovations is IIT-D coming up with in the near future?
A: We are developing a new kit to quickly test coronavirus infection. This modern kit’s reliability is more than the antijet kit available in the market. The great thing about this new kit is that its price is quite low. It will be available in the next few days. The IIT-D has also come up with an indigenous N95 mask. It will be made available across the country for just Rs 40 a piece.
IIT Roorkee has collaborated with the Minister of Road Transport & Highways, MoRTH to focus on research and development, teaching & training for the Development of Highway Infrastructure.
AP mulls action against Jr Colleges turned Coaching Centres
An intermediate college has to take separate licence to coach students for EAMCET: Board Secretary
Sunday January 24, 2021 1:08 PM, Sharon Thambala, IANS
Amravati: The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) in Andhra Pradesh plans to crack the whip on colleges given BIE affiliation for intermediate courses but which have turned their campuses into coaching centres to offer to help students prepare for various competitive exams.
These colleges, as per the rules, cannot coach students for competitive examinations like Engineering Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) or the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the absence of requisite permission and have hence taken unsuspecting students, and their parents, for a ride.