| Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur announces the Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award |
In a bid to promote technical innovation, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, has instituted the Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award, open to all technologists who are Indian citizens. The award was announced during the IIT Kharagpur Foundation Day held on August 18th, 2006.
The award commemorates the spirit and memory of IIT Kharagpur's illustrious alumna, Dr Nina Saxena, B. Tech (Hons), E 1992, who passed away tragically in 2005.
The award will be funded through an endowment of the Nina Saxena Memorial Fund that has been collected through the IIT Foundation. The intent of the fund is to perpetrate excellence despite all odds. The charter of the fund is to provide facilities, mechanisms, and opportunities to enable individuals to rise above expectations, and better serve society.
Nominations will be decided on the basis of- and in the order of- the following:
a)Innovation above and beyond well-known results
b)Novel Application of a well-known result
c)Societal improvement
d)Benefit to India
e)Application of Technology to underdeveloped areas and causes
Please see http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/topfiles/nina.php for additional information.
