IIT-B alumnus gifts $1 million fellowship to Cornell varsity

A former student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) has gifted a $1million fellowship to his other alma mater, Cornell University in the US, to support students at the department of biomedical engineering.

A former student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) has gifted a $1million fellowship to his other alma mater, Cornell University in the US, to support students at the department of biomedical engineering.

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Rajiv L Gupta, who completed a masters degree in operations, research and information engineering from Cornell in 1969, has established Phool Prakash and Rukmini Sahai Graduate Fellowship Endowment, according to a news item dated July 27 on the Cornell University website. The fellowship has been created in honour of his parents.

Gupta completed a bachelors’ degree in mechanical engineering from IIT-B in 1967, following which he joined Cornell.

“This gift will have a profound impact on our biomedical engineering programme by enhancing our resources and ability to attract and develop the most promising new scholars in this critical field of study and practice,” said Lance Collins, the Joseph Silbert dean of the College of Engineering, in a news item in the “Cornell Chronicle” posted on the university’s website.