University of Michigan president Mark Schlissel talked to media outlets in Delhi and Mumbai during his India visit. The conversations ranged from global engagement, partnership with India, online learning and how to use data in learning.
A visit to the Bombay house, the Tata headquarters by U-M President Mark Schlissel put in focus, one of the oldest collaborations for University of Michigan.
It first began when CK Prahalad, a Ross School of Business professor approached the Tata group.“He challenged us to think about frugal innovations,” said Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Group. “His bottom of the pyramid concept has been a huge inspiration for us.”
That led to conceptualizing an executive education program for Tata executives at the Ross School of Business which had been going strong for 25 years.
At Bombay House, Schlissel participated in TATA talks, a Ted Talks style conversation over a wide range of topics with Tata chief economist Rupa Purushothaman. “I am in India
here to see what India is prioritizing in education in both near term
and long term future,” Schlissel said. “The fact that we are both
democracies and there is a big english speaking population makes it an
ideal partner for us.”
U-M President Mark Schlissel participated in the lamp lighting ceremony at Salokaya School of Nursing.
The lamp lighting ceremony at Salokaya is a solemn occasion for the students entering the nursing profession as they take the Nurses pledge on this day along with lighting a candle in remembrance of Florence Nightingale.
The lamp is an international nurse symbol that is widely known to symbolize Florence Nightingale and her transforming work in the nursing profession.
As the teachers lit the lamps for the graduating students at Salokaya, they shared the lights with each other and took the pledge to serve.
University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel started his week-long trip of India by visiting two partner institutions in the capital city of Delhi.
The first stop was All India Institute of Medical Sciences, often considered one of the best medical colleges in India. U-M’s partnership with AIIMS started in 2010 when Raghvendran Krishnan, a professor of surgery in the U-M School of Medicine started a collaboration with AIIMS trauma care.
Over the last decade, the partnership has grown to include research and collaboration on cancer, immunology, genetics and disaster medicine.
“Research institutions have critical roles in setting the agenda for global science,” said Schlissel while addressing a group of scientists from both institutions. “The goals of surgical education, patient care, and research can be seamlessly integrated in a model of “convergence science,”
ANN ARBOR—About 30 senior Indian educators are spending a week at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business as part of a new Leadership for Academicians program.
The LEAP program, launched by the India Ministry of Human Resource Development, provides a three-week training program for upcoming academic leaders. The collaboration between U-M’s Ross Business School and the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee is the first one in a series.
The educators, who come from 15 states across India, spent the first two weeks in India as part of the new executive education program. They are attending the final week at U-M’s Ann Arbor campus to cover areas critical for the development of academic leadership in India.
“Hearing how an higher education institution works in the U.S. has been eye-opening,” said Bhupendra Gandhi, a professor at IIT-Roorkee. “We are looking forward to adapting them in the Indian context.”
चिन्नैयन को फन्डिंग नए कैंसर मार्करों को मूल्यांकन करने में मदद करेगे है जो उपचार लक्ष्य बन सकते हैं
एन आर्बर – भारतीय मूल के वैज्ञानिक चिन्नैयन को कैंसर बायोमार्कर्स की पहचान के लिए 65 लाख अमेरिकी डॉलर का पुरस्कार दिया गया है। कैंसर बायोमार्कर की पहचान से कैंसर के उपचार और इस घातक बीमारी के लिए नई लक्षित थेरेपी के विकास में मदद मिलेगी।
मिशिगन यूनिवर्सिटी के शोधकर्त्ता चिन्नैयन को नेशनल कैंसर इंस्टीट्यूट से ‘आउटस्टैंडिंग इन्वेस्टीगेटर अवार्ड’ प्रदान किया है।
यह अनुदान नए जैव सूचना विज्ञान संसाधनों को बनाने, नए कैंसर बायोमाकर्स की पहचान करने, और निदान में सुधार लाने और अंततः नए लक्षित उपचार विकसित करने के शोध में मदद करेगा।
“इस अनुदान से हमें नए बायोमार्कर की पहचान और कैंसर की वृद्धि में उनकी जैविक भूमिका में समझने में मदद मिलेगी,” यूनिवर्सिटी ऑफ मिशिगन मेडिकल स्कूल में पैथोलॉजी के प्रोफेसर चिन्नैयन ने कहा।
ANN ARBOR— A Hindi tweet from Indian politician Lalu Prasad Yadav in December 2017 didn’t have a political message. He simply asked his followers to retweet his message. The tweet went viral and was shared thousands of times.
Now a University of Michigan study finds that Hindi language tweets are more likely to be shared and favorited in India when compared to English.
According to the researchers, the social media landscape has evolved from 2014 when a majority of the tweets on Twitter were from the English-speaking urban population.
“While the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party still leads significantly in terms of social media following because of a top-down push from the center, other parties are also recognizing the role of the social media in political outreach,” said Joyojeet Pal, assistant professor at U-M’s School of Information and lead author of the study.
According to the research, a key indicator of this shift is that 11 of the 15 most retweeted messages by Indian politicians in the last year have been in Hindi.