Chennai: In order to motivate undergraduate students taking up a career in research and application of deeper learning, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras has launched a young research fellow program.
The new program provides one-to-one interactions with IIT faculty members to participate in research.
The students would also benefit personally through a career and life coaching programme concurrently offered by the 1979 alumni.
“IIT-Madras has long been known for producing world-class undergraduate students. Besides, IIT-Madras is very much a research intensive university where world-class research is a daily pursuit,” Times Now News quoted IIT-M Director Bhaskar Ramamurthi as saying.
“This programme blends these two strengths by giving select undergraduate students an opportunity to discover the excitement of taking up research early,” he added.
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The Young Research Fellow project has been funded by the 1979 batch and it was signed on July 10 by IIT-Madras Dean (alumni and corporate relations) Mahesh Panchagnula on behalf of the alumni.
Accordingly, a year-long program and up to 20 fellowships were planned to be unveiled in the first year.
The applicants would be selected by a committee, comprising senior faculty members.
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