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2011-2012 Indian Fellows

2011-2012 Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowships

Back 2011-2012 Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowships
Sl. No.	Name, Designation and Institution	Area of Study	U.S. Host Institution	Duration of Grant and Start Date
1	Mr. Samrat Mondol Senior Research Fellow National Centre for Biological Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bengaluru, Karnataka	Environment (Non-Invasive Population and Conservation Genetics of Tigers and Leopards in the Indian sub-continent)	University of Washington Seattle, WA	9 months September 2011
2	Mr. D. Senthil Kumar Ph.D. Research Scholar Photonics Division School of Advanced Sciences VIT University Vellore, Tamil Nadu	Public Health (Investigation of dosimetric characteristics of Normoxic Polymer Gel using optical CT for radiotherapy applications)	University of Minnesota Twin Cities, MN	9 months October 2011
3	Mr. Partha Dey Artist Kolkata, West Bengal	Study of India (Painting on ceramics and glass)	TBC	8 months TBC
4	Ms. Pamela Bhattacharya Senior Research fellow Life Science and Biotechnology Department Jadavpur University Kolkata, West Bengal	Biotechnology (Structural biological studies on metal reduction by a thermophilic gram-positive bacterium in context of electricity generation)	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA	9 months October 2011
5	Mr. Sachin Warghade Senior Research Associate Resources and Livelihoods Group PRAYAS Kothrud Pune, Maharashtra	Energy, Sustainable Development and Climate Change (Water resource management, Social equity, and environmental sustainability)	Washington University St. Louis, MI	9 months August 2011
6	Ms. Latika Nagpal Inspire Research Fellow Department of Biotechnology Dr. B.C. Guha Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Kolkata, West Bengal	Biotechnology (Study of Novel Pyrimidine Imidazole derivatives as inducible Nitric oxide synthase Inhibitors)	Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH	9 months July 2011
7	Ms. Suneethi Sundar UGC-JRF Research Scholar Centre for Environmental Studies Anna University Chennai, Tamil Nadu	Environment- Solid Waste Management (Nitrogen Removal from Landfill Leachate by ANAMMOX Process in Anaerobic Membrane Reactor)	Columbia University New York, NY	9 months August 2011
8	Ms. Manju Menon Ph.D. Scholar Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi	Energy, Sustainable Development and Climate Change (Making environmental (non) knowledges: public hearing and hydroelectric projects in NE India)	Yale University New Haven, CT	9 months September 2011
9	Mr. Suneel Narayanavari Ph.D. Research Scholar Department of Animal Sciences University of Hyderabad Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh	Science and Technology- Infection Biology (Studies on the Leptospiral Sphingomyelinases)	University of California Los Angeles, CA	9 months June 2011
10	Ms. Dalia Ghosh Dastidar Ph.D. Scholar Marine Biology Regional Centre Zoological Survey of India Chennai, Tamil Nadu	Science and Technology (Seasonal variation in space use pattern by the common venomous snakes in agricultural fields)	University of Northern Colorado Greeley, CO	8 months September 2011
11	Mr. Manish Shukla Ph.D. Scholar FPM Office Indian Institute of Management (IIM)--Kozhikode Kozhikode, Kerala	Management and Leadership Development (Study of select issues in fresh produce supply chain management)	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	8 months August 2011
12	Dr. Shalini Bhalla Senior Resident Department of Hospital Administration All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi	Public Health (Patient Safety and its Implementation in Tertiary Care Public Sector Hospitals in India)	Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH	6 months September 2011
13	Mr. Achyut Chetan Assistant Professor Department of English S.P. College Dumka, Jharkhand	Study of India (An intertextual analysis of the constitution of India through a study of the American roots of Ambedkar's Constitutional Thought)	Columbia University New York, NY	9 months September 2011
14	Ms. Neethi Padmanabhan ICSSR Doctoral Scholar Centre for Development Studies (CDS) Ulloor Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala	Economics-Labor Economics (Globalization lived locally: looking at Kerala's labor market through geography framework)	University of Georgia Athens, GA	9 months August 2011
15	Ms. Isha Sharma Research fellow Department of Biotechnology Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar, Punjab	Biotechnology (Study the effect of salinity on Brassinosteroids receptors)	North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC	9 months August 2011
16	Ms. Amrita Pal Research Scholar Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur Kharagpur, West Bengal	Agricultural Sciences (Synthesis, characterization and application of low-molecular-weight Amino Acid and Peptide based Gelators)	Georgetown University Washington, D.C.	9 months September 2011
17	Mr. Kaustav Padmapati Ph.D. Scholar Center of Canadian, U.S. and Latin American Studies School of International Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi	International Relations (U.S.-Taiwan relations during Bush Administration, 2001-2008)	American University Washington, D.C.	9 months August 2011
18	Mr. Pervaiz Ahmad Dar Ph.D. Scholar Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) Research Centre Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) Bengaluru, Karnataka	Agricultural Sciences- Veterinary Science (Cytokine responses to FMD vaccines and their correlation to protection in cattle)	Plum Island Animal Disease Center New York, NY	9 months September 2011
19	Mr. Rohit Muraleedharan Research Scholar Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra	Economics (Financial crises: A Macroeconomic Study of Indian Banking Sector)	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	9 months January 2012
20	Ms. Priya Samir Choudhary Assistant Professor Smt. Manoramabai Mundle Department of Architecture LAD College for Women Nagpur, Maharashtra	Study of India (Cognitive response to spatial modelling of built environment in urban India-case study Nagpur)	University of California Berkeley, CA	7 months August 2011
21	Ms. Gauri Anil Achari Ph.D. Scholar ICAR Research Complex for Goa Goa	Agricultural Sciences - Plant Genetics (Interactions of Ralstonia solanacearum, a bacterial wilt pathogen, with the xylem residing bacteria in solanaceous vegetables)	Ohio State University Columbus, OH	8 months October 2011
22	Mr. Sugata Nandi Assistant Professor Department of History West Bengal State University Kolkata, West Bengal	Study of India (Crime, politics and the Law: the goondas in city politics and police surveillance –Colonial Calcutta 1918-1947)	University of Washington Seattle, WA	9 months October 2011
23	Mr. Venkata Santosh Kumar Delhi Ph.D. Scholar Building Technology and Construction Management Division Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras Chennai, Tamil Nadu	Management and Leadership Development (Institutional issues related to project governance in public-private partnerships in infrastructure)	TBC	9 months TBC
24	Mr. Chhuttan Lal Meena Ph.D. Scholar Department of Medicinal Chemistry National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) Mohali, Punjab	Medicinal Chemistry (Synthesis of New Thyrotropin releasing Hormone (TH) Analogues)	National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD	9 months July 2011
25	Mr. Tushar Ph.D. Scholar Plant Biotech and Molecular Biology Lab Department of Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati Guwahati, Assam	Biotechnology (Study of Genome Structure and Evolution of Zingiberaceae)	University of Georgia Athens, GA	9 months September 2011
26	Mr. Srikant Parameswaran Ph.D. Scholar Fellow Program and Research Office Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta Kolkata, West Bengal	Management and Leadership Development (Corporate Governance)	University of Michigan, Arbor, MI	9 months September 2011