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Fr. Fred Pereira to offer Mass at St. Hubert

Chicago , December 13: Mr.James Saldanha, one of the directors of Mangalorean Konkan Christian Association arranged Rev.Fr.Fred Pereira's (Vicar General, Mangalore Diocese) Mass at 12:15 p.m. at St.Hubert Church , 729 Grand Canyon Street , Hoffman Estates , IL 60194 on Sunday the 15th December.  St.Hubert Church is located on Roselle Road between Schaumburg Road and Higgins Road .  All Mangaloreans who reside in Chicagoland are most welcome to celebrate Sunday Mass with our own Vicar General from Mangalore.

All the hard work finally paid dividends for Carmelites 

Students of Mount Carmel Institute of Management hold candles while taking oath on the ninth annual convocation  ceremony in Bangalore on Friday.

Bangalore , December 13: It was that one moment they had been waiting for. The days of hard work had finally paid dividends for the forty-odd students of the Mount Carmel Institute of Management for Post Graduate Diploma in Management who were honoured with awards in academics at the ninth annual convocation ceremony at the College auditorium today.  Several awards were distributed to the rank holders for their outstanding academic performance. Minister of State for IT and Tourism D. B. Inamdar, who was the chief guest, commended the students and said, "You should aspire for nothing less than the best."

This year, the Carmelites saw in themselves the birth of future managers and entrepreneurs who will soon be out there to conquer the world. Promising to be one of them is Shoba T S who bagged four gold medals and the Subba Rao Golden Jubilee Endowment Prize. Aarthi Deshpande, Maya Ramakrishnan and Shruthi Anand were among the others honoured for their remarkable achievements. Awarded for best academic performance in Human Resource Management was Chajjer Pallavi S. Jain while Sowmya L. Nayak took away the prize for the 'community conscious student'.

Delivering the convocation address, Mr. Jacob Kurian, Chief Operating Officer, Tanishq, Titan Industries Ltd, said that all people in the world should develop an attitude for always being ready to learn and that life-long learning will always keep one at his best.

Advanced courses in DNA technology at St. Joseph’s College

Bellary , December 13: The newly set up St. Joseph 's Institute of Gene Technology (SJIGT), a subsidiary of the St. Joseph 's College, will offer advanced courses in the areas of recombinant DNA technology, gene cloning and bio-informatics in collaboration with the Netherlands based Wageningen University .

These web-interactive courses, which will be conducted, evaluated and certified by Wageningen University through the Internet, were launched at a function here today.
Dr. Rommert Vanden Bos, programme director, biotechnology, Wageningen University said the courseware has been uniquely designed to facilitate interactive learning and customised imparting of skills to students. The easy-to-handle content includes graphics, visual display and questions-based learning that encourage student curiosity and comprehension, he said.  The courseware will be run on global e-learning standards that encompass question and text interface and operability, as well as instruction management systems, Dr. Bos said.

Wageningen University was founded i n 1918. In recent years it has evolved into one of the world's leading education and research centres in plant, animal, environmental, agro-technological, food and social sciences. The launch in the city is in association with its Indian enabling partner Centre for Life Technologies.  Presently, SJIGT is offering three courses - a three-month simple cloning lab, a six-month bio-informatics technology course and a one-year diploma in gene cloning. For details, contact Dr. Jayarama Reddy, co-ordinator, SJIGT. Phone: (080) 22114-29, 2274079.

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