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Brain box: doctoral student Delshad Kalantary’s goal to help with memory loss
Delshad Kalantary has adopted a Kiwi DIY attitude and built a light-therapy box she hopes one day could help with...
Professor Mahzarin Rustum Banaji will receive a 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has awarded the 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences to Mahzarin R. Banaji, the 2010–2011 APS President and an APS William James Fellow...
Mahtab Bamji —Multiple prestigious awards winning nutritionist who loves social work
Her walk is sprightly, her voice comes through as firm, but is caring and her commitment and contribution to nutrition studies and the health of the downtrodden is solid. Meet, Dr Mahtab Sohrab...
Technology creation ‘must reflect our diverse society if its to serve us all’: Lord Karan Bilimoria
CBI President Lord Karan Bilimoria will underscore the need for technology development to be truly representative of society if it is to deliver tangible benefits for ethnic communities, at the...
Nergis Mavalvala named MIT School of Science dean
Astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala has been named the new dean of MIT’s School of Science, effective Sept. 1. She will succeed Michael Sipser, who will return to the faculty as the Donner Professor of...
The Story of Jamsetji Tata’s Forgotten Farm and How It Revived the Mysore Silk Industry
In 1868, a 29-year-old man from a small town in Gujarat started a trading firm in Bombay with ₹ 21,000. The man was Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata and the occasion marked the beginning of what would grow...
Avesthagen Releases The First Complete Zoroastrian-Parsi Mitochondria Reference Genome
Avesthagen releases “The First complete Zoroastrian-Parsi Mitochondria Reference Genome: Implications of mitochondrial signatures in an endogamous, non-smoking population” – The study unravels...
PROPHET OF THE ATOMIC AGE: DR. HOMI JEHANGIR BHABHA
A tribute on his 110th birth anniversary by Marzban Jamshedji GiaraHe was born on 30th October 1909 at Bombay in a Parsi family. He studied at Elphinstone College,, Bombay and at Cambridge...
White House Honors Neville Sanjana with Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
NYU's Neville Sanjana, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology and at NYU School of Medicine, has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Neville...
Dr Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin Presented Royal Microscopical Society Medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy
We are thrilled to share the news that our dear friend Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin received the Royal Microscopy Society (RMS) Gold Medal in Manchester, UK on July 2, 2019 for his work in STM microscopy...
Dr Cyrus Poonawalla congratulated for life-long commitment to boosting vaccine coverage in the world’s poorest countries by the GAVI
Serum founder wins inaugural ‘vaccine hero’ awardABU DHABI, 10 December 2018 – Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, Founder of Serum Institute of India (SII) and Chairman of Poonawalla Group, has been given the...
NanoViricides, Inc. Welcomes Dr. Irach Taraporewala as the New CEO
NanoViricides is pleased to announce that the Company's Board has appointed Dr. Irach Taraporewala as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Dr. Irach B. Taraporewala is a seasoned pharmaceutical...
Dr Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin Awarded RMS Medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy
We are thrilled to share the news that our very dear friend Dr. Cyrus Farokh Hirjibehedin is a 2018 Royal Microscopical Society Medal recipient RMS Medal Series 2018 Winners Announced After a...
New Publication on Dinshah P. Ghadiali & his Spectro-Chrome therapy
Contemporary science is validating light and color as a beneficial therapeutic tool. It has been generally accepted that light and color affect the mind and body. Violent juveniles placed in a pink...
For 31 years after his death, Homi Bhabha’s office room was unoccupied
The secular condolence ceremony for Homi Bhabha of which no photographs were found has remained firmly etched in the scientists’ memory, and the religious one was forgotten. On 24 January 1966, Homi...
Monaz Viraf Gandhi Wins Harvey Award for MONTEA
Ms. Monaz Viraf Gandhi slams historical special category award ton by bagging two high profile awards namely The Harvey Youngest Achiever 2017-2018 and The Harvey Most Valuable Indian 2017-2018 at...
Nergis Mavalvala honoured with Carnegie Great Immigrants award
Pakistani-American Nergis Mavalvala is among 38 immigrants being honored this year with the ‘Great Immigrants’ award by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Article in Express Tribune The ‘Great...
Garshasb Soroosh’s NASA Project: Terps in Space
Dr. Behram Pastakia, Chair of FEZANA’s Publication committee, and a dear friend writes in. Garshasb Soroosh, (see Fezana Journal - summer 2016 issue) is part of the Zarathushti Youth Without Borders...
Nenshad Bardoliwalla At BigDataSV 2016
Enabling ‘Excel people’ to work with Big Data | #BigDataSV Back in 2013, at BigDataNYC, Paxata, Inc. announced the launch of the company on theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, and since then...
Why We Need To Thank Homi Bhabha for India’s Role In The Discovery of Gravitational Waves
The three stages of black hole collision as observed in supercomputer simulation of Einstein Equations. C V Vishveshwara from the Raman Research Institute, along with S. Chandrasekhar (Nobel Prize,...
Karachi bike repairman inspired Mavalvala
Now working at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory(LIGO) in the United States, Dr Nergis Mavalvala still thanks a bicycle repairman in Karachi for her hands-on skills. by Yusra...
Nergis Mavalvala and First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves
Regular readers of Parsi Khabar will remember our article from 2012 on Nergis Mavalvala. The brilliant professor of physics at MIT is in the news again as one of the lead researchers who has worked...
Homi Bhabha:7 Things You Need To Know About The Father Of India’s Nuclear Program
Today is the 106th birth anniversary of the father of India’s nuclear program, Homi J. Bhabha. Not many know that he had initiated a successful nuclear programme in Great Britain and was in India on...
Rustomji H. Vania Builds Supercomputing "Ferrari" Machine at Southern Illinois University,
In the age of information, data rules. A new supercomputer has been installed in the basement of the Wham Education Building to keep SIU on the cutting edge of technology. SIU is the second Illinois...
Meet the Scientist: Dr. Adi Bulsara
Adi Bulsara, scientist, holds a 3-axis coupled-core magnetometer originally developed for C-IED applications at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. (Photo by Alan Antczak Released)...
Zoroastrian text that pre-empted science’s latest discovery
As was recently reported in the news There's no way for us to know exactly what happened some 13.8 billion years ago, when our universe burst onto the scene. But scientists announced Monday a...
Infosys Prize 2013 for Physical Sciences awarded to Prof. Shiraz Naval Minwalla
Shiraz Naval Minwalla Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),...
Nergis Mavalvala: Just Herself
Nergis Mavalvala, professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, can check off a whole lot of boxes on the diversity form. She isn't just a woman in physics,...
Dr. Homi Bhabha: Let There Be computing
Homi J Bhabha is famous as the founder of India’s nuclear establishment, but he also enabled India’s IT success. Rajeev Anantaram on a survey of the computer industry that is also a paean to its...
MIT Astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala Wins MacArthur Grant
MIT quantum astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala was announced Sept. 28 as one of 23 winners of the coveted 2010 MacArthur Fellowship, also known as a genius grant, and will receive a $500,000 “no...
Homi Sethna, Nuclear Legend Passes Away
Former Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC) chairman and one of the guiding lights behind India's first nuclear test, Homi Nusserwanji Sethna, died on Sunday at his Walkeshwar residence after a prolonged...
Astronomer Anahita Sidhwa Invited to Oxford Round Table
Astronomer Anahita Sidhwa will travel to Oxford in a few weeks to share deep thoughts about constellations. The instructor from Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch will join the Oxford Round Table...
What is the secret behind the Parsi-Zoroastrians’ longevity?
Bangalore-based biotech company trying to solve riddle opens Pune chapter, seeks blood samples Bangalore-based biotech company Avesthagen Ltd, which is carrying out a large-scale study to decipher...