Category : Students
Nov 19, 2024 | Announcements, India, News, Students
The Seed for Change (SFC) student grant competition provides up to $30,000 to bold, creative student projects that have the potential for widespread impact in India. Applications are open until February 7, 2025.
Nov 12, 2024 | Announcements, News, Pakistan, Students
This winter, three Harvard Law School students will be the inaugural cohort of interns with a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, based in Islamabad, Pakistan, through a new program facilitated by the Mittal Institute called the HLS J-Term Clinical Internship. Through this internship, students will get an opportunity to attend the court proceedings at the Supreme Court, prepare bench memorandums, conduct legal research, draft opinions, assist the Honorable Justice on complex cross-cutting legal issues, and contribute to the overall functioning of the Chambers.
Oct 16, 2024 | Community, News, Students
The Himalayan Caucus at the Harvard Kennedy School may be one of Harvard’s newer South Asian-focused student groups, but its reach and breadth has grown rapidly. Started in December 2023, the Himalayan Caucus represents and shares the cultures from Himalayan countries...
Oct 1, 2024 | Community, News, Sri Lanka, Students
Nigel Gray, a summer 2024 LMSAI grant recipient. Nigel Gray, a doctoral student in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, spent this past summer working in Sri Lanka on a research project, “Finding Purpose: Gender & Sociocultural Influences on Sri Lankan...
Sep 24, 2024 | Community, News, Students
Saturday, September 21, marked Harvard’s first-ever South Asian Convocation, co-hosted by the Mittal Institute and the South Asian Student Association (SAA). This unique celebration of the South Asian community at Harvard attracted over 300 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as affiliates and faculty members.
Sep 18, 2024 | Community, News, Students
On Saturday, September 21, Harvard University will be ripe with South Asian culture as it hosts the first-ever South Asian Convocation. All South Asian students, affiliates, and faculty are invited to attend the festivities, which are co-sponsored by the Mittal...
Sep 4, 2024 | Graduate Student Associates, News, Students
Rows left to right from top left: Abir Abdullah, Muhammad Ayaz, Saurav Ghimire, Parul Gupta, Masuma Halai Khwaja, Nilanjana Mukherjee, Arpit Shah, Sarah Umer, Sarthak Agarwal, Arnaaz Ameer, Shreya Raj Bhutani, Priyamvada Gannavarapu, Fatima Hamdani, Bhavya Jain,...
Aug 8, 2024 | Announcements, Climate, Faculty, Fellows, In Region, News, Students
In our last summer special, we contemplate how rising temperatures, changing monsoon patterns, and rising sea levels will impact South Asia’s growing and diverse population. The Mittal Institute is at the forefront of scholarship and research on ways to...
Jul 12, 2024 | Announcements, Fellows, News, Students
This summer, we are reflecting on the people and programs that made headlines at Harvard over the past academic year. Our second highlights the work of our fellows and Harvard students. Through their research scholarship, internships, and initiatives, this...
May 22, 2024 | Community, In Region, News, Students
From improving digital literacy in India, to researching ways to prevent Alzheimer’s in Bangladesh and beyond, Harvard’s class of 2024 is full of graduates with big ideas for South Asia. These movers and shakers will now set off across the globe, eager to put into practice their years of learning. We curated a list of profiles on some notable graduates across many of Harvard’s schools — though this list is not all-encompassing, it gives you a flavor of the many ways that our Harvard graduates aim to improve the world. Congratulations, Harvard University Class of 2024!
May 8, 2024 | Announcements, In Region, India, News, Students
This winter, Aisha Kokan ’26 was awarded a Mittal Institute student grant to complete research in Chennai, India. Her project, Body Image & Eating Disorders: Enduring Legacies of Historical Trauma on Women in Tamil Nadu, India, explored mental health...
Apr 30, 2024 | Community, Faculty, India, News, Students
A group photo of the HUM SAB EK curatorial team, panel speakers, and Mittal Institute affiliates. The HUM SAB EK (We Are One) exhibition, hosted by the Mittal Institute, was successfully launched on April 15, 2024, at CGIS South in Cambridge. The opening event...
