Rakesh Khurana, the Marvin Bower professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School, professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and co-master of Cabot House, was named dean of Harvard College Wednesday.
In December, Aisha Shah was named as Partnerships Manager at the White House Office of Digital Strategy.
United States President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named two Indian Americans -- Reema Shah and Neha Gupta -- to the Office of the White House Counsel.
In the fifth part of a series on Presidential Scholars, Arthur J Pais profiles Rajet Vatsa
Over 60 students at the Harvard University have been forced to withdraw and several others disciplined after being implicated in one of the largest cheating scandals that shook the Ivy League institution last year.
About 125 Harvard University undergraduates are being investigated for cheating in a final exam last year, the largest academic misconduct scandal in the prestigious institution's history.
His invention, 'A novel rapid prototyping approach to tissue engineering,' has won him many awards, the latest being an induction into the National Museum of Education's Gallery for America's Young Inventors.
According to Harvard, its plans for expanded engagement with South Asia had been developed by senior scholars and administrators from across the university and leaders from the public and private sectors around the world. The plans came just a month after Drew Gilpin Faust was officially installed as the 28th president in Harvard's history, making this project the first region-wide international initiative of the Faust administration.
Mehra recalled: "When I was at Harvard there was very little study of India and South Asia. There was a lot of study of China and Japan, but very little of South Asia. And given that one in four people in the world live in the Indian subcontinent, we felt it was important to shine the light on what was going on there."
Juster, who is the Deputy Assistant to the US president for International Economic Affairs and Deputy Director of his National Economic Council, would replace Richard Verma if nominated and confirmed by the Senate.
The President-elect also announced the nomination of former Secretary of State John Kerry as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, the first such official to sit on the national security council.
Juster played a key role in the landmark Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
As the Under Secretary for Commerce, Juster played a key role in developing the Indo-US deal.
Jyotiraditya Scindia, the grandson of the late Vijaya Raje Scindia, quit the Congress on Tuesday along with 22 MLAs, putting the 14-month-old Kamal Nath-led government in deep crisis. "His grandmother Vijaya Raje, once a close confidant of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the great grandfather of Rahul Gandhi, had started her political innings in 1957 from the Congress. However, she left the party in 1967.
Several buildings in the Harvard University campus in New York were evacuated and searched after an unidentified man told the university police over phone that he had planted bombs on the campus.
Juster, 62, is an old India hand who played a key role in the landmark Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
Four Indian-Americans, including top US attorney Preet Bharara, are among 38 distinguished personalities who have been honoured with this year's prestigious "Great Immigrants: The Pride of America" award.
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