Office of Development and Alumni Affairs

Wells Fargo Fellowship – Tanaya Mallik

M.Tech student @ CDS Dept | Recipient of Wells Fargo Women Fellowship Tanaya Mallik has a pretty good idea of the challenges women in science and technology face. The first-year M.Tech (Computational and Data Sciences) student has seen fellow students struggle to make...

Wells Fargo Fellowship – Prajakta Sanjay Borse

M.Tech student @ CDS Dept | Recipient of Wells Fargo Women Fellowship It is Dr BR Ambedkar that Prajakta Sanjay Borse borrows from, as she tries to explain why more women should be working in science and technology. “I measure the progress of a community by the degree...

Boosting Skill Development

Boosting Skill Development The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with support from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), is establishing a Skill Development Centre at its second campus in Khudapura, Challakere taluk, Chitradurga district. The new “HAL-IISc Skill...

Encouraging Bright Young Researchers

Encouraging Bright Young Researchers To encourage bright young faculty members and incentivize outstanding researchers to join IISc as faculty members, the Institute plans to establish several named Young Investigator positions.  The first of these, called the “R. I....

Enabling Student Travel to Conferences

Enabling Student Travel to Conferences In 2016, an IISc alumnus made a commitment to support the travel of IISc students to international conferences for 10 years through the “D Nagarajachar Fund”. In the academic year 2016-17, two students benefited from the fund and...

Giving Back to the Department

Giving Back to the Department When the 1965 B.E. ET, ECE batch were planning their golden jubilee reunion last year, they came up with the idea of raising funds to contribute to students’ needs. Discussions with the ECE and EE department chairmen led them to realize...