– BUFFALO, N.Y. An Indian-American physician at the University at Buffalo is the first in Western New York to carry out a successful heart valve transplant. Dr. Vijay S. Iyer, assistant professor of medicine at the university’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has successfully led a team of highly trained physicians to implant aortic valves in four patients over the last few weeks.
Prosecutors want to raise the level of a charge they are making against a former Rutgers student who is accused of spying on his roommate’s gay sexual encounter and relaying it over the Internet. The roommate later committed suicide. The Star-Ledger reported Feb.
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Education Department is probing complaints that Harvard University and Princeton University discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions. The department’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint it received in August that Harvard rejected an Asian- American candidate for the current freshman class based on race or national origin, a department spokesman said.
Neil Mehta of Jericho Senior High School in Jericho, N.Y., is among seven Indian-Americans selected as finalists for the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search. Mehta’s research – “Co-restoration of Type III Nrg1 Back Signaling through Depolarization: Implications for Schizophrenia,” is one of the 40 projects selected for the finals. Other Indian-American finalists are Sayoni Saha of Gretchen Whitney High School, Cerritos, Calif.
– EDISON, N.J. When Baninder Mahabir began her teaching career in a public school here about a decade ago, little did she know that she would return in a few years to take over as the school’s principal. Mahabir, who began in her new post at the James Madison Primary School here Jan. 2, is the first Asian principal in the township, she told Desi Talk. And, at 33, she is also one of the youngest principals in the state.
On Sept. 1, 2011, the students of New Heights Middle School in Jefferson, South Carolina trooped into the gymnasium to hear the Christian rapper known as “B-SCHOC” tell them that Jesus alone could save them. They cheered as a pastor named Christian Chapman vied to win their souls for Christ. At the end of the show, they were asked to fill in a form indicating whether they had accepted Jesus as their savior.
Potential jurors in the trial of Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers student accused of using a webcam to record his roommate's sex encounter with another man, will learn the name of that man, who has so far been identified only by his initials. According to news reports, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman told attorneys at a pretrial conference Jan.
