Autumn Edition

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Vol. 2, Issue 1

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Dean of Resources and Alumni Affairs Off iceE-mail : dora.off ice@iitr.ac . inPhone: +91-1332-285840Website: https://alumni. i itr.ac . in

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WALL OFPRIDE

IITR Architecture Department ranked firstamong all Architecture Colleges by IndiaToday GroupThe Department of Architecture and Planning ranked #1 among all the Architecture colleges in India, according to a survey conducted by India Today Group which imparts high quality education in Architecture and offers facilities like Climatology Lab, Computer Lab and Computerized Design Studios.

Regional Finals of the TATA CrucibleBusiness QuizTwo teams from IIT Roorkee (Utkarsh Bajpai/Renju Kokkatt and Dev Raj/Utkarsh Ruhela) made it to the stage finals of the quiz, with Utkarsh Bajpai and Renju Kokkatt ending up as the winners of the quiz as a result of which they represented IIT Roorkee in the zonal Finals in Delhi.

IITR exploits at NASAThe National Association of Students of Architecture (abbreviated as NASA) is a student organization with over 200 member colleges from India and neighbouriung countries. This year, IIT Roorkee (with a team of 46 students) took part in 7 competitions where they finished in the Top Ranks as follows-

Writing Architecture Trophy - First

DesTech Challenge - First

HUDCO Trophy - Top 10

Le Corbuiser Trophy - Top 10

Laurie Baker Trophy - Top 11

IITR hosted a one-day Industry-Academia event titled“D’Conscientia 2018” on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day on 24th August with an aim of generating awareness among students for disaster related issues.

IITR Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management(CoEDMM) hosts ‘D’Conscientia 2018’ on the occasion ofWorld Humanitarian Day

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Sangram 2018 Achievement Corner

Women’s Athletics

Men’s Snooker

Men’s V olleyball

Women’s V olleyball

Men’s Taekwondo

Women’s Basketball

Men’s Cricket

Men’s Athletics

Chess

Men’s Hockey

Squash

Men’s lawn tennis

Women’s lawn tennis

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Funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, DIC of IIT Roorkee was launched to operate as a main institute that would coordinate work with four other institutes - National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand, Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur and GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar for mentoring and supporting innovation and design activities, to address issues specific to the Himalayan region and to cater national priorities.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee launchedDesign Innovation Centre (DIC) with a project outlay of Rs 10 crores

An IIT Roorkee alumnus Mr. Aditya Nigam, (B.Tech) 2014 batch, has brought a unique experience through his gaming startup for the first time to his alma mater. Called the ‘Triwizard Chess’, it is India’s first chess for three players and is a strategy game that tests the other survival and killer instincts at once in which one player can checkmate on two players at a single time.

India’s first ‘Triwizard Chess’ for three playersinvented by IIT Roorkee alumnus

Sangram is an annual sports festival of IITR which concluded on April 2018, with 1600+ participants,15 sports, 42 colleges and 45 events. IITR medal table was listed as-

IIT Roorkee find new drug target forantibiotic-resistant bacteriaA team of researchers led by Ranjana Pathania from the Department of Biotechnology have identified a protein (Hfq) in Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria that can be used as a potential drug target. The Hfq protein plays an important role in metabolism, drug resistance, stress tolerance and virulence and stabilises the interaction of small RNA with its target MRNA molecules.

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IITR student awarded the BIRAC-GYTI

award by the President of IndiaEkdeep Singh Lubana’s project, “A RAW images’ based on a

setup that can calculate nutrient concentration in leaves” was

selected amongst the top 16 projects across 2915 entries from all

over the country. BIRAC and NIF, along with Sristi, recognize

socially valuable projects across the country and award them with

Rs. 15 lacs to support their ventures.

IIT Roorkee Researcher selected for a prestigious

India’s Fellowship ProgramMs. Vedita Anand Singh from Department of Biotechnology, has been selected

for the Science and Engineering Research Board Overseas Visiting Doctoral

Fellowship (OVDF) Program at Purdue University where she will be working on an

application-based research to identify new therapeutics for mosquito-borne viral

diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika.