In new attack, Trump spending bill would hike taxes on elite collegesA U.S. House-passed spending bill proposes increasing the tax on investment gains for wealthy private universities, potentially reaching 21...
23 May, 2025, 02.56 PM IST
MIT will enroll fewer grad students as funds from Trump govt dries upMIT is reducing graduate student intake and laying off staff due to federal funding cuts and new tax rules, impacting the US research ecosy...
23 May, 2025, 01.32 PM IST
MIT takes big bite of Burger King India's Rs 500-crore QIPAmong the world's top universities, MIT was the single largest investor in the QIP of the quick service restaurant chain. The Cambridge, US...
01 Apr, 2025, 05.23 AM IST
BITS Pilani alumni Anuradha and Prashanth Palakurthi and Sid Mookerji pledge $2 million to the BITS Endowment FundBITS Pilani alumni Sid Mookerji and Anuradha and Prashanth Palakurthi have pledged $1 million each to the BITS Endowment Fund, totaling rec...
07 May, 2024, 01.49 PM IST
Stanford University appoints Jonathan Levin as its next presidentJonathan Levin, an economist and Stanford alum, has been appointed as the next president of Stanford University, effective August 1, 2024. ...
05 Apr, 2024, 05.37 PM IST
These elite American universities are actually a bargainCalifornia stands out for having many excellent public universities that offer a pretty good deal for in-state students of all incomes and ...
01 May, 2023, 11.05 AM IST
MIT's endowment fund and Old Bridge Capital pick up stake in Tanla PlatformsInvestors are bullish on Tanla Platforms after it reported earnings growth in the September-ended quarter with a net profit of Rs 81.5 cror...
26 Nov, 2020, 09.10 AM IST
MIT's endowment fund, Old Bridge Capital buy into Tanla via block dealsThe endowment fund of US’s premier research university, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), bought 985,000 shares and Old Bridge C...
25 Nov, 2020, 09.10 PM IST
Covid cloud at Harvard, MIT: Leadership pay cuts, salary freeze, no hiringHarvard has also cancelled or deferred discretionary spending.
14 Apr, 2020, 11.20 AM IST
COVID-19: Harvard, MIT announce salary, hiring freeze and leadership pay cutsPrestigious US educational institutions Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are implementing salary and hiring fre...
14 Apr, 2020, 09.06 AM IST
Endowment funds of top American universities heavily betting on Indian stocksAmong the major funds, Harvard Management Company, the fund with AUM of $35 billion, has been actively participating in the Indian primary ...
23 Mar, 2017, 08.38 AM IST
Indian investment veteran appointed endowment chief at HarvardN P Narvekar, 54, has been appointed the president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC).
01 Oct, 2016, 02.59 PM IST
We have to stay ahead of most advanced countries: Kris GopalakrishnanKris has funded researches in the field of computational brain research at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and three chairs at IIT...
18 Apr, 2015, 04.05 PM IST
IIT and MIT alumnus Subra Suresh to head Carnegie Mellon, to quit as Director of NSFThe move caught both Washington and academic circles by surprise because Suresh had served only three years of a six-year term at NSF.
07 Feb, 2013, 10.57 AM IST
Indian universities should emulate Nalanda: Lord Swraj PaulIndian universities, which failed to make it to the top 200 World University Rankings, should draw inspiration from ancient academies like ...
27 Sep, 2012, 03.35 PM IST
- There's a good reason why IIT is not MIT
The mandate of the IITs and IIMs for the first 50 years was to provide the sinews and muscles in terms of leaders for developing India.
29 May, 2011, 01.46 PM IST
- AP to forge ties with MIT for open source software
The Andhra Pradesh government is forging ties with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, for collaboration in the areas of e...
06 Jan, 2007, 05.07 PM IST