ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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April 2018 -
Who says pageants are only for the young? Grandmothers, too, can be glamorous! Just ask Atlantan Mrs. Kamlesh Chugh. She was recently crowned Mrs. Bharat Grandmother USA.
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April 2018 -
A research team, including Santosh Pande, at Georgia Tech’s School of Computer Science received $7.5 million from the Navy to develop a customized attack-resistant software stack.
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April 2018 -
Congressional Gold Medals will be awarded to 6th Congressional District’s Sravya Ambadipudi of Johns Creek and Dilan Shah of Milton, and 7th District’s Vani Senthil of Duluth.
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April 2018 -
The founder and president of Siddhi Vinayak Mandir in Atlanta, Pundit Gyan Prakash Upadhyay, was one of 10 global awardees receiving the U.P. ‘Apravasi Bharatiya Ratna’ award in Lucknow, India.
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February 2018 -
Dr. K. M. Venkat Narayan has received Emory University's 2017 Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization. He was also inducted into the National Academy of Medicine.
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February 2018 -
Amol Naik, currently Director of Special Projects at MailChimp, has been selected by Atlanta’s newly sworn-in Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, as a member of her transition team.
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February 2018 -
Georgia now has a 30-member Indian-American Lions Club chapter, aptly named Namaste Atlanta. Ramesh Gude of Lilburn is the chapter’s first president.
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January 2018 -
Yash Kadadi, a ninth-grader at The Westminster Schools, Atlanta, was a finalist in the Breakthrough Junior Challenge competition. His video elegantly unravelled the mysteries of the Higgs Field.
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January 2018 -
Asif Ramji, President and CEO of Atlanta-based Paymetric, a world leader in secure electronic payment solutions, was named National Entrepreneur of the Year by EY (formerly Ernst & Young).
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January 2018 -
Kushika Pejavara, a local 9-year-old, performed 20 shows in the lead role of the professional musical theatre production "Madeline’s Christmas" at the Horizon Theatre in December.
