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Making their own music

One look at a musical instrument designed by students of IIT-Gn, and anyone would mistake it for a guitarin-the-making. But it is not a guitar. It is the ancient musical instrument – Veena.

Building workers attend attend IITGn feast

IITGn, Palaj (Gandhinagar) got a new hostel building recenfly which was inaugu?ted on May 2. A feast called 'Bada Khana' was organised bythe institute that was attendedby .all the people associated with the construction

Lecture on IIT-Gn in US

IIT-Gandhinagar director Prof Sudhir Jain will visit the US next week to develop industry partnerships and attend a lecture on IIT-Gn, organized by the Indian Embassy in Washington DC. Beside this, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is helping IIT-Gn organize meetings with universities and industry leadership in Washington DC, Boston, Raleigh, and New York. In February, IT-Gn and USAID started consultations on developing high-level partnerships with American universities and industry. The discussions were framed under the joint agreement signed ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit to India on January 26.

Graduating IIT-Gn students to stay on new campus

T he final year students of Bachelor of technology (BTech) will receive a unique farewell gift from the institute – a chance to stay at the newly finished campus at Palaj in Gandhinagar. Sources said, “These students will soon graduate and will hardly get an opportunity to experience the new campus. So, the institute has offered them a chance to be the first occupants at the campus and spend a night in the new hostel.

IIT-Gn chief most ‘liked’

I IT-Gn director Prof Sudhir Jain has edged out his counterparts in Mica and Cept to become the most followed director on Facebook.

IIT-Gandhinagar team designs new swachch dustbins

When Urvi Shah goes to unload her household waste outside her home, she has a harrowing time dealing with stray animals scrounging for food in the common dustbin of her housing colony. Now, a street bin designed by IIT-Gandhinagar students aims to prevent spillages and animals ripping garbage bags.
Developed on the request of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the bin's broad base makes it more stable and not easy to topple. The funnel shape encourages users to put trash in and dissuades dumping in surrounding areas.

IITGN and Bangkok university ink MoU

:The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok have joined hands to bring a global dimension to their curricula and research and signed an MoU. The institutes will exchange students for joint degree and nondegree courses; faculty members; academic materials, carry out joint research activities and publications, conduct joint performance, participate in seminars, and academic meetings as well as take part in special shortterm academic and cultural programmes.

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