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Over 65,000 IIT Delhi graduates are leading Fortune 500 companies, founding startups, and giving back through a massive endowment fund. Their collective success story shows how one university's impact ripples across the globe.
The University of Benin just made history by launching Nigeria's first trust development fund modeled after Oxford University's system. Alumni worldwide are being called to help build a sustainable future for public education.
A Jersey school is marking 75 years at its current site by launching a special alumni network to reconnect former students. The celebration also honors a century of Catholic education on the island.
When illness left Gunjan Kumar bedridden months before India's toughest engineering exam, his mother became his note-taker, attending online lectures so his IIT dream wouldn't die. Despite a collapsed lung and severe vision impairment, the Bihar student just earned admission to IIT Delhi's Computer Science program.
Forty years after graduating together, Nigerian Defence Academy alumni reunited to celebrate friendship, honor fallen comrades, and support one another through life's challenges. Their wives visited an orphanage, extending the spirit of service beyond the military.
When health challenges nearly derailed Shreya Agrawal's engineering dreams in competitive Kota, a friend's mother stepped in to care for three struggling students. Now thriving at IIT Guwahati, the 18-year-old computer science student credits that unexpected kindness with keeping her on track.
The University of the Philippines Alumni Association will celebrate 67 graduates, families, and chapters whose work has advanced their communities and the nation. Business leader Jorge L. Araneta will receive the highest honor for his decades of philanthropy and civic leadership.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock alumni gave more than $232,000 in scholarships this year, transforming what started as a modest $2,000 fund into a life-changing investment in students' futures. Their generosity is opening doors for students like Héctor Alejandro Balada Jaime, who says the support made his dream of graduating college possible.
Mohit from Narnaul, Haryana, cracked one of India's toughest exams and discovered that IIT Mandi offered more than just engineering excellence. Three years later, the once-reserved small-town student leads the campus Writing Club and has learned the power of teamwork.
Top engineering students from 18 National Institutes of Technology can now skip entrance exams and pursue advanced degrees at IIT Delhi. The groundbreaking partnership creates new pathways for research collaboration and academic mobility across India's premier tech institutions.
La Familia, Kentucky's alumni basketball squad, dominated their rivals to reach Sunday's championship game. Led by Archie Goodwin's 28-point explosion, they're now one victory away from a life-changing $2 million payday.
India's IIT Kharagpur is celebrating 75 years of excellence by creating more opportunities for graduate students in cutting-edge fields. The new Platinum Jubilee Scheme expands seats in strategic tech disciplines for the 2026-27 academic year.
Indian military officers will now earn advanced engineering degrees while serving their country. IIT Ropar and the Indian Army just launched a groundbreaking program merging academic excellence with frontline defense needs.
Researchers at IIT Bombay just solved a decades-old chemistry puzzle that could make life-saving drugs faster, cheaper, and more accessible. Their breakthrough turns common fatty acids into complex molecules in a fraction of the time it used to take.
India just became self-reliant in cutting-edge chip technology with the launch of indigenous Silicon Photonics solutions at IIT Madras. This breakthrough puts India on the global map for advanced electronics and opens thousands of new opportunities for students and researchers.
Amol Parashar walked away from IIT Delhi and a secure future to pursue acting with no backup plan. His journey from Mumbai theatre to web series success proves that choosing passion over certainty can lead to a career built on honest storytelling.
An IIT Delhi spinoff is solving one of AI's biggest problems: making it work where there's no internet, no server, and barely any power. Their brain-inspired chips are already catching the eye of defense giants and France's Safran.
Thirty years after graduation, a group of alumni returned to their Ghanaian high school with a solar lighting system worth over $54,000. The sustainable gift now brightens the entrance of PRESEC-Legon, improving safety for more than 6,000 students.
Researchers at IIT Gandhinagar developed an AI system that lets cities rehearse monsoons before they happen, showing officials exactly where flooding will strike and how to respond. The physics-guided technology could transform how India prepares for its annual flood season.
In a small Bihar town where girls married at 15, one father repaired gas stoves to fund his daughter's education instead of saving for dowry. Today, Prachi Thakur is a PhD graduate from IIT Roorkee, TEDx speaker, and diversity strategist. #
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