Research Award

           Certificates being presented at the convocation ceremony. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), a unit of the Madras Medical Mission, conducted the Graduation Day ceremony for undergraduate (2018 batch) and postgraduate medical students (2020 batch) recently. Vikram Mathews, Director, Christian Medical College, Vellore, the chief guest distributed the certificates to 162 undergraduate and 45 postgraduate students.  In his convocation address, Dr. Mathews motivated the students to treat the patients with compassion and empathy citing the example of Dr. Ida S. Scudder, founder of CMC Vellore. He also advised the budding doctors to spread positivity in the community through selfless care. Renu G’Boy Varghese, PIMS director-principal presented the students for graduation. Medical Superintendent Peter Manoharan administered the Hippocratic Oath to the UG students . Arun Kurian Joseph, chairman, PIM...

  The Marketing Society of Ireland has launched a call for entries to the 2024 Research Excellence Awards which will take place at the annual Christmas lunch of the Marketing Society on Friday, December 6 in the Shelbourne Hotel. The closing date for entries this year has been set for Friday, November 1 at 4pm. Last year’s winner of the coveted Grand Prix award was Ipsos B&A. The judging panel will include Etain Kidney, Head of The School of Marketing at Technical University Dublin (Chairperson), Aisling O’Sullivan, Head of Customer Planning Research & Insight at AIB, Michelle McLoughlin, Head of Consumer Insights at Aer Lingus and Roger Sherlock, Head of Marketing Studies at TUD. Additional judges will be appointed over the coming weeks. Speaking at the launch of call for entries, Mark Noble, Chairperson of the Marketing Society of Ireland and Marketing Manager at Heineken said: “We are delighted to be announcing the Marketing Society Research Excellence Awards which are...

  DENVER – Faculty across the University of Colorado system this year attracted $1.7 billion in sponsored research funding and gifts supporting research , a new record total in CU history. In achieving the collective record, each of the four CU campuses also attained new records for sponsored research funding and gifts supporting research . The systemwide figure reached in the 2023-24 fiscal year is 7% higher than the previous year’s total. This marks the eighth consecutive year CU has topped the $1 billion mark. The investment in research endeavors at CU’s four campuses powers life-changing discoveries across Colorado, the nation and the world. “Our extraordinary faculty are changing life as we know it and creating new possibilities for our future. The importance of their research is reflected in part by the level of funding they continue to attract each year,” said CU President Todd Saliman. “This latest milestone speaks to the real-world impact of the discoveries and innovations...

  Department of Computer Science Professor Steven Skiena, along with his former students Rami al-Rfou and Bryan Perozzi, received the 2024 KDD Test of Time Award  for their work on graph representation learning. The KDD Test of Time Award highlights the long-term value of pioneering research , acknowledging that some papers gain prominence and influence over time. Presented by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD), it recognizes a paper that has made a lasting and influential impact on data mining and knowledge discovery. The team received the award at the KDD Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Skiena and his team were recognized for their 2014 paper, “Deepwalk: online learning of social representations .” Deepwalk is a way to turn large graphs, like social networks or product-consumer purchase data, into a representation that machine learning models can easily understand. The team’s paper...

  GAITHERSBURG, Md.  —  Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $6 million to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to establish a joint center to support cooperative research and experimentation for the test and evaluation of modern AI capabilities and tools. The center will be housed on the Carnegie Mellon campus, in Pittsburgh. “ Artificial intelligence is the defining technology of our generation, and at the Commerce Department we are committed to working with America’s world-class higher education institutions, like Carnegie Mellon University, to advance safe, secure and trustworthy development of AI,” Raimondo said.   “I am excited to announce this NIST award of $6 million for Carnegie Mellon to boost research of AI systems and support a new generation of scientists and engineers that will help advance American innovation globally.” The CMU/NIST AI...

Queen’s hosted its second annual celebration to honour the accomplishments of participants in summer research programs. Research plays an important role in Queen’s mission and over the past year several opportunities have been created to further integrate research into the undergraduate student experience. These initiatives, coupled with hands-on learning and mentorship, are shaping Queen’s University into a hub offering research opportunities for students.  Queen’s is working to not only introduce research earlier into undergraduate education but to provide students with accelerated opportunities through these first-hand experiences to gain the translatable skills and training needed to pursue high-impact research . Recently, Queen’s hosted its second annual celebration to honour the accomplishments of participants in summer research programs and to acknowledge the role of supervision from faculty. The event brought together recipients of the Queen’s Undergraduate Student Summer R...