As a part of a large government delegation, Vice-Chancellor of our university, Prof. Panjab Singh visited USA during 19 to 30 Sept. 2007. The visit was on the invitation of United State Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the 'International Visitor Leadership Programme.' The team was headed by Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia. It visited Washington, New Haven, New York, Chicago and Wisconsin during the 12-day trip.
The team visited various US universities, including Howard University, Columbia University, DePaul University, Land Grant University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois and University of Connecticut in New Haven.
It discussed the bilateral collaboration of Indian Universities with American Universities. It included the subjects of increasingly singing of collaboration agreements between the universities, students and faculty exchange programs, setting up of campuses in India by US universities, etc.
The VC also took the opportunity to meet the alumni of BHU here. He had successful interaction with groups of alumni at Washington, DC, New York, New Jersey and Chicago.
The meeting with alumni was coordinated by Prof. D P Singh, Professor Emeritus, Mining Engineering Dept. (dpsingh[AT]hotmail.com) and Ms. Padmini Ravindra Nath (padmini_1109[AT]hotmail.com). Both are members of Alumni cell of the university and the alumni cell can be contacted at alumni_vco[AT]bhu.ac.in.
Meeting photos:
These are just sample of photos of meetings. More photos can be viewed at http://www.itbhuglobal.org/gallery/main.php
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Meeting of alumni with VC at New York
The informal meeting was organized by BHUPAA at Akbar Restaurant, garden City, Long Island, New York on 22nd Sept. 2007. About 12 alumni discussed with VC. Other dignitaries to attend the meeting were:
- Dr. Devi Singh – Director IIM Lucknow
- Prof. (Ms.) Surabhi Bannerjee– VC, National Subhash Open University
Chandrakant Trivedi (1975), Vinod Shah (1975), Dushyant Desai (1973) and Dinesh Jaiswal (1970) - all B. Pharm batches- helped arranged the program.
| BHUPAA (BHU Pharmacists’ Alumni Association of America) is an alumni group of passouts of Pharmacy Department, currently in USA. The group was formed in 1975 and it has about 70 members.
(VC standing in middle; Dr. Devi Singh second from right; Ms. Surabhi Banerjee 3rd from right. Chandrakant Trivedi, the organizer, can be seen standing next to VC.) |
For further details of New York meet, contact Chandrakant Trivedi at cltvav[AT]yahoo.com
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Meeting of alumni with VC at New Jersey
The meeting of alumni with VC in New Jersey took place on 23rd September, 2007 at Rasoi Restaurant, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. About 50 alumni (including families) were present at the meeting.
The combined meeting was organized by the following alumni organizations:
- IT-BHU alumni association-by Yogesh Upadhyaya (chemical 1977)
- BHU alumni association (BHU Parivar)-by Dr. Prabhat Pandey (PhD chemistry-1977)
- BHU Pharmacists alumni association of America (BHUPAAA)-by Dr. Krishna Kumar (B. Pharm 1972).
The meeting had slide-show presentations on starting research and education at BHU for
agriculture genomics (Dr. Janardan Yadav, PHD Physics, 1973) and bio-vaccine research (Dr. Hari Asthana Chemical Engineering 1966). Dr. Shashi Karna (Chemistry PhD 1983) was master of ceremony.
Ms. Vijaya Keshari (Chemistry PhD 1983) helped organized the meeting and Dr. Prabhat Pandey sent out invitation to BHU alumni. Chandrakant Trivedi arranged for photographer and video recording, projector, sound equipment, etc. and Anil Singh (Electronics 1995) looked after booking of restaurant. Other volunteers were Dr. Anand Singh (PhD Physics 1981), Manu Goyal (Mechanical 1993), Neelesh Prabhu (CSE 1996), Vinod Shah and Dushyant Desai.
Our VC gave an idea about the progress being made by our university.
He said that apart from recent collaboration with University at Buffalo (New York), many such collaborations involving students and faculty exchange are coming. He outlined the progress being made at the new Rajiv Gandhi South Campus at Mirzapur, where 2,000 students are already staying.
For the faculties of Institute of Technology and Institute of Medical Sciences, he clarified that after upgrade (to IIEST and AIIMS), the institutes shall continue working within the framework of BHU. For IT-BHU he promised to get more funding than even IIT and make it better than other premier institutions.. Both the institutes shall get higher funding and functional autonomy, he added. He also said that university is planning many new programs such as food processing technology, etc.
He advised alumni to develop affinity towards the alma-mater. He also stated the problem of shortage of accommodation on the campus and asked for the help from donors to construct more hostels.
Some Glimpses:
 | (From left to right: VC (talking), Dr. Rai (Statistics 1972), Prof. Krishna Kumar (B. Parm 1972), Yogesh Upadhyaya (Chemical 1977) and Dr. Prabhat pandey (Chemistry 1977) |
| (Above from right to left; Ms. Vijaya Keshari, VC and Dr. Shashi Karna) |  |
 | (From right to left: Vinod Shah, Dushyant Desai, Ranbaxy executive and alumnus of pharmacy dept., VC, Dr. Krishna Kumar, Dr. Hari Astana, and a BHU alumnus) |
| (VC delivering speech) |  |
 | (VC talking to Manu Goyal and other alumni. On left is Chandrakant Trivedi) |
| (VC in happy moment wih some of the alumni) |  |
Official website for IT-BHU alumni association is www.itbhuglobal.org and that for BHU Parivar is http://www.bhuparivar.org/
For further deails of New Jersey meet,contact:
Yogesh Upadhyaya at yogesh[AT]optonline.net
Dr. Prabhat Pandey at prabhatpandey[AT]optonline.net
Ms. Vijay Keshari at vijaya_keshari[AT]hotmail.com
Dr. Krishna Kumar at kkumarbhu[AT]gmail.com
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Meeting of alumni with VC at Chicago
The meeting with our vice chancellor and dignitaries from other Indian Universities/Institutions was organized by Naresh Jain (Electrical 1974). It was held on Wednesday 26th September evening at Klay Oven Restaurant at Chicago.
The meeting was attended by 8 alumni, 6 dignitaries and a journalist. The meeting news was circulated in local Indian newspapers.
Mr. Tilak Marwah (B. Pharm 1974) and Pradeep Chintagunta (Mechanical 1984) helped in organizing the program
Mr. Jatinter Bedi, owner/reporter of Indian Reporter also attended the meeting.
 | The Guest Names are as follows:
(Seating in front, from Left to Right)
Naresh Jain (organizer) can be seen standing in the last row (with tie, in front of red background). |
For further details of Chicago meet, contact Naresh Jain at: nareshj[AT]jscglobalsolutions.com