Lawrence Technological University named Virinder K. Moudgil as its new president today. Moudgil, who has served as provost and led academic affairs at Oakland University since 2001, will assume office July 1. He will be the seventh president at the 4,500-student private university, succeeding Lewis N. Walker. Walker has served in several Lawrence Tech leadership roles, including president since 2006, and has been named to a one-year term as the university’s chancellor beginning July 1.

“Dr. Moudgil has a strong record of leading exemplary academic progress and program development,” Lloyd E. Reuss, chairman of the Lawrence Tech Board of Trustees, said in a statement. “He is an excellent communicator and we anticipate that he will accelerate Lawrence Tech’s advancement and services to students and the professions across Michigan and the nation.”

Washington: An Indian American professor, Dr. Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi, has been selected as a 2011-2012 recipient of the James E. McLeod Faculty Recognition Award by the students of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.Previously called the Faculty Awards, this year the ArtSci Council decided to rename the event in honour of one of their biggest supporters James E. McLeod.
Viewed as a very prestigious honour in academics, the award is given to those who have positively and profoundly influenced the educational experiences to the students at Washington University. Warsi, a gold medallist linguist from Aligarh Muslim University and a West Bengal Academy award holder, will receive the honour April 16 at a Recognition Ceremony hosted by the School Council, the undergraduate organization and executive governing body for the College of Arts & Sciences.

Effective April 2012, Mr. Raj Nair will be serving Ford Motor Company as the new Vice President, Global Product Development. Before his new appointment, Raj Nair worked as the Vice President- Engineering of the Global Product Development where he was responsible for all engineering related to Ford and Lincoln cars, trucks, SUVs and crossover vehicles. He also lead the development and implementation of the Ford brand globally.

Nair holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with an automotive specialty from Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. He was also named the recipient of the 2007 Kettering Alumni Achievement Award in Engineering.

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About Sam Singh
Sam Singh is a Community Leader
The year after he graduated from MSU, Sam Singh was elected at the age of 24 to the East Lansing City Council. He subsequently won re-election for two additional terms serving a total of 12 years in local government. In 2005, Sam was elected as the youngest Mayor in the city’s history. He worked tirelessly to build bridges between the university and city, promoted regional collaboration, supported aggressive economic development and expanded strong environmental policies.

NEW YORK: IIT-Delhi alumnus Soumitra Dutta has been named the new Dean of the Ivy league Cornell University's business school, joining a growing list of noted Indian-origin academicians assuming leaderships roles at prestigious global universities.

Dutta, 48, is the first Indian-origin dean at the 66-year old Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

He will become the 11th dean of the New York-based Cornell University's business school when he begins his renewable five-year term on July 1. He is currently a professor of business and technology and founder and faculty director of a new-media and technology innovation lab at INSEAD's French campus, where he has been for more than 20 years.

Shikha Raman, a fifth grader at Power Upper Elementary School, 34740 Rhonswood Street, Farmington Hills was declared the winner of the 'I Can Make History' 2011 Poetry Competition. Sponsored by Kroger, CBS Radio and 98.7 AMP radio , 'I Can Make History' is a contest organized in the month of Feburary commemorating the Black History Month in Michigan.

In the recently declared results Shikha Raman was congratulated by the contest organizers for honoring and recognizing the efforts of the Black leaders with beautiful poetic words.Her poem was selected amongst the hundreds of entries accepted by Kroger. As a prize, Shikha recieved a Dell Inspiron 15R-2nd Gen - Intel Core i5 laptop and a certificate recognizing excellence in poetry.

Ananda Prasad, M.D., Ph.D., distinguished professor of Internal Medicine in the Department of Oncology at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and a member of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, recently received the 2010 Mahidol Award in the Field of Public Health for his groundbreaking research. Dr. Prasad is a world renowned zinc expert.

The award is presented annually by the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation of Thailand. It recognizes researchers and physicians for outstanding contributions in the field of public health "for the sake of the well-being of the peoples." The honor includes a medal, a certificate and $50,000.

Dr. Padmaja Nandigama is extremely effective in giving motivational talks.With a doctorate in Psychology and an immense passion to help others, she is well qualified to motivate subjects of different age groups on diverse issues. If you are looking for a motivational speaker for your event, Dr. Padmaja can offer you different motivational themes like:

*Building self esteem.
*Improving communication.
*Developing attitudes to shape life.
*Motivating yourself and others.
*Emotional balance in a chaotic world.

Chandrakant Singh grew up studying by the light of a kerosene lamp in a nondescript village, Chamanpura, in Bihar's Gopalganj district in the '80s. By 2004, engineer Chandrakant was posted to Germany on a two-year assignment by his then employer Bosch India. Stuttgart in Germany, where Singh was based, afforded him all creature comforts. Yet, old memories kept coming back to him Of Chamanpura.

With those memories came self-realisation, of the need to do something for the next generation of children in his native village. Only, Singh didn't know how. He groped for solutions on his return in 2006, from offering scholarships to some to funding the entire education of others to inspiring educated youngsters from the village to teach children. The solution presented itself soon after. "I needed to make quality education available to everyone," he says.

Vaidehi Dongre(15) of Troy was recently declared winner in the children’s category of the much acclaimed singing competition Swarangan 2011. Swarangan is a singing competition organized by the popular internet radio station www.eprasaran.com. The final round of the singing competition was held at Chicago, live at the Bruhan Maharashtra Mandal (BMM)’s Annual Convention, July 2011 that attracted thousands of patrons from all over United States. Vaidehi was also the lead dancer in during the opening and closing ceremony of the BMM Convention.

Vaidehi, a sophomore at the International Academy is a multi-talented young lady. She hails from a family of second generation Hindustani classical music singers. Her father has been her early year’s teacher. Currently, Vaidehi is learning music from Guru Shuchta Athlekar , from Mumbai.

VOTE TODAY!! Nov 8th Tuesday
Ramesh Verma, a Novi resident for over 32 years and an active community leader announces his candidacy for the Novi City Council. Ramesh Verma was born in Burma and was brought up in India. After his graduation in civil engineering, he joined Indian Army as a commissioned officer. He has worked with a diverse group of people and learned their languages, customs, and religions. He left India as a Captain in the Corps of Engineers when he came to USA in 1972.
I firmly believe in fiscal discipline, smaller government for better governance and freedom of expression. I pledge to work in the areas for enhancement to improve the quality of services to senior citizens, support public safety and further economic development. I humbly request your valued support and vote in my candidacy to the Novi City Council - Ramesh Verma
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More than 140 applicants entered the seventh annual “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” selection process for India, and four finalists emerged after several stages of rigorous assessment.

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organization of the World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation announced Neelam Chhiber, Managing Director, Indus Tree Crafts Foundation (ICF), as the winner of the 2011 India Social Entrepreneur of the Year award. The award was conferred in Mumbai at a ceremony attended by over 200 participants in the presence of Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Ashwani Kumar, Minister of State for Planning, Science, Technology and Earth Sciences of India, and Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman and Founder of the World Economic Forum.

Congratulations to the longtime Michigan resident Subir Chowdhury for being recognized as one of the top 50 "Most Influential Management Gurus in the World" 2011 by the Thinkers 50 Organization.

Subir Chowdhury is the Chairman and CEO of ASI Consulting Group and a globally respected quality expert and strategist. He advises CEOs and senior leaders of Fortune 100 companies as well as organizations in the public, private and not-for profit sectors all over the world, helping them make quality a part of their business culture.Tagged the “The Quality Prophet,” by Business Week, Chowdhury is the author of the international bestseller The Power of Six Sigma: An Inspiring Tale of How Six Sigma is Transforming the Way We Work (2001), (translated into more than 20 languages), and 12 other business titles.

Brief introduction of Umesh Rashmi Rohatgi:
Umesh graduated from IIT Kharagpur in ’68. He recieved masters degree from University of Michigan in ’82 and Rashmi is MA in Sanskrit from Gwalior ’70. Umesh and Rashmi Rohatgi are better known as social workers and want to encourage any thing or anybody, that will make a difference in someone’s life. They have raised two sons, Yash and Gaurav, to be decent world citizens.

They have successfully completed two phases of life; Brhamacharya (Student) and Grihastha (House holders) while they were also engaged in various charity works in India and America. Now in the third stage of life, Vanprastha (Philanthropist), they have totally devoted themselves to make some deprived people more informed so they can improve their lives as they dream. During last 5 years they have traveled extensively throughout India, visited 320 villages and about hundred NGO’s.