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It beyond the dimensional beyond June2015 first week rector atProf. ITM SchaeferBanga- Charles Darwin’s what’s within you and ([email protected]) follows that the cause limits of the universe.” cannot be included unless very loregave and a onebrief of account the re- of theory ‘Survival of the give you hope, a prom- & [email protected]. of our universe must be and pen drive are sourcethe other persons world viewsat the on Fittest’ Dr. Iyer said it’s ise thatProf. the futureSchaefer is e-mail ([email protected]) & the origin of the universe, some entity operating in said the Big Bang [email protected]. NEHU News : Jan.-Mar. 2015 the philosophical and the high dimensionality in a “predicts that all the and pen drive are preferred. CAMPUS NEWS Bio-engineers Shaping the World of Tomorrow National Confer- Aence on Recent Advances in Biomedi- cal Engineering (NCRABME – 2015) was organised by the Department of Bio- medical Engineering, NEHU, Shillong on August 28 and 29, 2015. More than 40 par- ticipants attended the two-day event where speakers like Dr. Biman B. Mandal, IIT- Guwahati, Dr. P. Sukumar, IIT- Guwahati, Dr. Dinesh Bhatia, Chairperson, (From right) Dr. Manashjit Gogoi, Prof. P. V. Koparkar, Prof. P. Shukla, Prof. S. Dandapat, Dr. Dinesh Bhatia, and Mr. Nitin Sahai pose with copies of a book NCRABME and Head, brought out in cognisance with the conference. Contributed Photo Biomedical Engineer- ing Department, Shillong enlightened young biomedical engi- nanomedicine, bio- NEHU, Shillong, Dr. the participants on the neers, researchers and medical signal process- Bhaskar Borgohain, latest advancements in faculty from different ing, medical image NEIGRIHMS, the field. institutions pan India analysis and bioinstru- Shillong and Dr. Arup The conference working in the field of mentation. Bharuah, aimed to share and en- biomedical engineer- NEIGRIHMS, hance the knowledge of ing, biomaterials, Contd ... page 3 Preparing Students for a Better Future Contd ... page 1 the students discover sources in training, that 7 students have got better.” their passion because communication skills, placements in top com- Reiterating Dr “once you find your personality develop- panies like Wipro and Iyer’s mantra, Mrs. passion, you can live ment, trending topics Sony Ericsson and Vineeta Sharma, Gen- your life.” like digital and social hoped that more stu- eral Manager, ITM, Earlier, in his wel- media, finance and dents get into such Mumbai and one of the come address, Dr. MBA. “In today’s sce- companies in the near resource persons at the Dinesh Bhatia, Coordi- nario, personality, good future. workshop, said the rea- nator of the Career and communication skills, The inaugural son of the workshop is Counseling Cell, in- body language are programme concluded to give students a formed about the ob- needed to achieve with a vote of thanks by chance to know what jective of the workshop greater heights in future Eva Giri, organising to do with their lives. is to impart, motivate career,” Dr. Bhatia secretary of the work- She promised to help and develop human re- said. He also informed shop. 2 NEHU News: July-Sept. 2015 Library CAMPUS NEWS Orientation Bio-engineers Shaping the World of Tomorrow Programme Contd ... page 2 processing systems research work and de- he NEHU Central It is hoped that such which is velop mutual cross TLibrary, Shillong events lead to exchange conceptualised, de- linkages and research conducted the Library of know-how and signed and developed collaborations. Orientation Program- stimulate people work- by the engineers, this Earlier, the con- me from September 8th ing in the field for trans- conference brought out ference was inaugu- to 18th in the NEHU forming their theoreti- real time research prob- rated by Prof. Prabodh Central Library Confer- cal knowledge into lems addressed by the Shukla, Vice-Chancel- healthcare products doctors in their fields of lor, NEHU, Shillong ence Hall for the first which will help the so- specialisation and and Chief Guest Prof. semester students of ciety and mankind at shared their experi- Samarendra Dandapat the different depart- large. The conference ences with the engi- from IIT, Guwahati. ments. worked in establishing neers/ researchers who The other invited dig- The programme fo- a bridge between the can work in future to- nitaries who attended cussed on the library’s doctors and engineers wards finding afford- the inaugural function rules and guidelines, in- to work in tandem to able solutions to these include Prof. P. V. house/online resources, develop feasible and problems. The confer- Koparkar, Dean, features of the Online low-costs healthcare ence also created an en- School of Technology, Public Access Cata- solutions. Since doc- vironment for the par- NEHU, Shillong, Dr. logue and a guided tour tors are handling the ticipants to share their Dinesh Bhatia, Dr. of the NEHU Central biomedical instru- ideas, experiences and Manashjit Gogoi, Con- Library. ments, signal and image results of their scientific vener and Mr. Nitin Sahai, Co-Convener. NEHU Observes Hindi Fortnight he Hindi Fortnight Tcelebration organised by the Hindi Cell, NEHU to com- memorate the Hindi Diwas celebration from Sept 14 to 28 began with an inaugural func- tion on September 14 in the Conference Hall, Administration Build- ing. Prof. P. Shukla, Vice-Chancellor, NEHU, in his inaugu- Prof. P. Shukla delivers his inaugural speech. Publication Photo ral address said that for Hindi. “As long as we Assistant Professor, guage or common lan- Hindi to become a do not feel the need to Department of Hindi, guage to understand popular language like learn it from within our- was of the opinion that each other. He also English, one would selves, we will never since India is a multi- stressed on the need to have to want to learn learn it,” he added. lingual country, Hindi Contd ... page 6 Dr. B. P. Tripathi, could be the link lan- NEHU News: July-Sept. 2015 3 SPORTS ROUND-UP NEHU Inter-College Badminton Shillong was the de- clared the winner with St. Edmund’s College, Shillong as the runner up. The tournament concluded with a clos- ing ceremony on Au- gust 13 where Dr. S.N.Lamare, Dean of Student’s Welfare, NEHU cum Teacher In-Charge, Sports De- partment, NEHU was the Chief Guest. Prof. Dr. S.N.Lamare and Mr. N.Das along with winners of the Badminton, Table Tennis and Chess Tournament 2015. Contributed Photo B.S. Mipun, Depart- ment of Geography, he Sports Depart- Campus. Union Christian Col- NEHU and Mr. N.Das, Tment, NEHU, In Badminton lege, Umiam while Assistant Director of Shillong organised the (Men), St. Anthony’s Women’s College, Sports gave away the NEHU Inter-College College, Shillong beat Shillong pipped St. prizes to the winners. Badminton (Men & NEHU, Shillong while Anthony’s College, Women), Table Tennis in the women’s cat- Shillong in the men and (Men & Women) and egory NEHU, Shillong women categories, re- Inter-College Chess (Combined) beat Synod College, spectively.