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CHRIST UNIVERSITYALUMNI ASSOCIATION

VOL NO 03 | ISSUE NO 02

APRIL, 2017

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Christ University Alumni Association

Core Committee Members

Rev. Fr. Dr. George Edayadiyil Chancellor

Col. Fr. Dr. Thomas C Mathew Vice - Chancellor

1973 Mr Jugnu Uberoi President

1998 Ms Deepa Chandrashekar Vice - President

Mr Sushil Dwarakanathan Hon. Secretary

2012 Mr Kerwin Savio Nigli Hon. Joint Secretary

1998 Ms Rashmi Treasurer

1976 Mr Hemant Patel Member

1995 Mr Surjo Das Member

1995 Mr Praneeth Member

1998 Mr Alok Agarwal Member

1998 Ms Sheela R Member

1998 Mr Pankaj Janak Kumar Member

2012 Mr Rahul Jain Member

2015 Mr Yash Tibrewal Member

2012 Mr Vivek Kumar Sultania Member

2012 Mr Vyomesh Ranjan Member

2014 Mr Saharsh Bhushan Member

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From thePresident’s Desk

Greetings Christites …

This edition covers information on Medical Camp organized by

Alumni Association in support with Narayana Health City and

Shekar Eye Hospital for Staff and Students. We thank the

management, staff and students in making the event successful.

We would like to make a special mention Dr Nanjegowda N M,

Former Dean of Science for his contribution towards alumni

scholarship.

Christite, who have made the Alma mater proud through their

achievement, are highlighted in this issue. Chapter events and

reunion programme involving Alumni along with University

updates are covered.

Congratulations to Department of Hotel Management for

celebrating Silver Jubilee and School of Education for celebrating

their Decennial this year.

Looking forward for Alumni participation in Fun Fiesta and Alumni

Scholarship.

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Medical Camp was organized for Staff and Students of Christ University on 9, 10 & 11 March 2017 in association with Narayana Health City and Shekar Eye Hospital.

Medical Camp

Narayana Health City for providing facilities for Blood Donation, Dental, Mammogram, Cardiac Screening (ECG I ECHO).

Shekar Eye Hospital for providing facilities for Eye test.

Student Volunteers - Department of Commerce.

Health Talk by Dr Vimal Raj on Heart

Score attended by 200 students •

470 Units of blood donated • 1275

Students & 340 Staff attended the Camp • Mammogram Test was

conducted for 28 staff.

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Token of Appreciation

Nritta 2017NRITTA 2017" - A Journey of Movements, University Dance Day on 4 & 5 March 2017

Christ University Alumni Association President Mr Jugnu Uberoi presented a cheque of Rs.50000/- in appreciation of the performance.

Dr Nanjegowda N M, Former Dean of Science contributed Rs.50000/- for Alumni Scholarship to support education of Christite from economically backward families.

We are proud of you for coming forward to support the cause.

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Letter of Appreciation from Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi for c o n d u c t i n g o n e d a y programme on “Business Presentation Skills” on 27 August 2016 by alumni and students of Department of Professional Studies.

150 students from School of Commerce attended the programme.

We Congratulate Ms Sruthi Hariharan (BBM - Batch of 2009) for winning the Best Actor (Female) for Beautiful Manasugalu at 2016 Karnataka State Film Awards.

Alumni Chapter - Department of Professional Studies

Arthavidhya is a skill development training program in finance and accounting for commerce background students with an innovative concept of VIRTUAL OFFICE. To evaluate the students who have taken the training program, viva-voce was conducted on 28.01.2017 & 04.03.2017 for around 2000 students.

The panel member consists of parent, alumni and corporate representatives associated with Department of Professional Studies. Around 100 alumni were presented for the event as panel members.

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Alumni Reunion: Batch - 1998, Course - B Com, Cricket Match, 19 February 2017

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Alumni Reunion: GOOGLY - Cricket Match was organized on 11 February 2017 between Alumni and Faculty of Media Studies. The Faculty of Media Studies won the match.

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Ms Supriya Lohith (BSc CMS - Batch of 2006) performing at Magnovite - Version6.0 on March 2-4, 2017 organized by Faculty of Engineering.

A classically trained singer, born and brought up in a musically influenced family from Bengaluru. She was trained under the guidance of her grandfather “Vidwan Munivenkatappa” and learnt light music from playback singer Ms Manjula Gururaj. She is currently pursuing her Playback singing dream and has sung in over 100 Kannada, Telugu & Tulu films. She has performed across the globe and has sung in over 500 shows nationally and internationally.

Awards: v “Voice of the year-2015” award by Chithrasanthe.

v “Best Female Playback Singer-2013" award by KIMA (Kannada International Music Awards).

v "Voice of Bangalore-Season 1" winner conducted by the Garuda Mall.

v "Zee Kannada Saregamapa" Season-2 winner conducted by ZEE Kannada Channel.

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Alumni Chapter - Deanery of Science

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Proud Christite

National Level Award conferred on MC Abbas, MA (Media and Communication Studies) Batch of 2011 as the Best Orator/Speaker of India 2017 Most Coveted & Prestigious Chanakya Award presented by IT & Tourism Minister Shri Priyank Kharge at the 11th Global PR Conclave curated by Public Relations Council of India.

The youngest recipient of this award in India.

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Decennial Celebration was organized by School of Education on 22 February 2017. Around 40 alumni attended the event.

Mr Vikram Bhat, (Bachelor of Education - Batch of 2014) delivered a nostalgic speech on what the BEd course meant to him.

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The Department of Hotel Management celebrated its Silver Jubilee on 25 February 2017. It is indeed a proud moment for all hospitality Christites to commemorate 25 glorious years of service in hospitality education. Around 80 alumni attended the event as part of reunion across the batch.

The department felicitated Ms Mallika Alice Gowda (BHM - Batch of 2004) and Mr Arvind Sagairaju (BHM - Batch of 2004) during the event for their outstanding achievement.

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New Courses introduced for the academic year 2017-2018

Postgraduate Programme

Master of Science in Zoology

Master of Science in Biotechnology

Master of Science in Botany

Master of Arts - English with Cultural Studies

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University Updates

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Blessing and Inauguration of Christ University Bannerghatta Road (BGR) Campus

Auditorium on 18 March 2017. Air Conditioned Auditorium with Seating Capacity of 1700. The Chief Guest for the Programme was Dr Sudha Murty, Chairperson, Infosys Foundation.

University Updates

2/9 Coy National Cadet CropsCadet SGT Pooja Sharma and SGT Yamini Sharma represented Karnataka & Goa Dte at the prestigious Republic Day Camp 2017 and marched at the Rajpath. Three cadets from 2/9 coy completed the tough and demanding TSC in the year 2017. 11 SD cadets participated in the Basketball event at the National Games 2016, representing Karnataka and Goa Dte. and won Silver medal and 9 SW cadets represented the state in the volleyball event at National Games 2016-2017.

In the spirit of attending to the call of national service, three of our cadets - CDT. Wiwangbou Wijunamai, Rahul Singh and Rion Varghese - have joined the Indian Army.

SUO Ben Chrisbin represented India in the YEP to Vietnam. SUO Aditya from Air Force Wing represented India in Kazakhstan. Our cadets made their mark in the Army Attachment Camp at Secunderabad; National Integration Camp, Delhi (inclusive of the PM RALLY); Basic Leadership Camp, Mysore; Advanced

Leadersh ip Camp, As sam; Advanced Leadership Camp, Allahabad; and the Skiing Camp in Gulmarg.

The crowning glory was the winning of the Best Institution Award by the cadets of the Senior Wing, at the State level. Further, 15 commendations were won by our company, which is inclusive of the DG Commendation Award won by Lt Sajina Begum and the Chief Minister's Commendation Award bestowed on the University Vice Chancellor - Rev. Col Dr Fr Thomas C Mathew, in recognition of his unflinching and exemplary support to the NCC.

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Mr Shelwyn James, Winner SPEAK FOR INDIA, Karnataka Edition held on 14 February 2017.

He received specially designed trophy, merit certificate, cash prize of Rs.1 lakh, scholarship worth Rs 1.5 lakh and award of Rs.50000 for the institution.

Congratulations

Mr Mayur D Bhanu won Silver Medal and was Awarded as Champion of Champion in the Karnataka State Olympic Games 2017 in Shooting Event (Small Bore Rifile and Pistol 7 Shotgun).

Students of B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering (Mr Zain Shariff, Mr Abinsha Joseph, Mr David Jose, Mr Linto K Philip) have presented the paper CFD Analysis of Solar Flat Plate Collector with Semi Circular Baffles in the International Conference Conducted by Asian Society of Academic Research in Association with IITR (International Institute of Technology Research), Chennai on 12 March 2017.

University Updates

The team bagged the first prize for Excellent Paper out of 15 groups presented.

In the month of February 2017, the sports teams explored new altars of success.

The Women’s Throwball Team won the Sacred Heart Inter-Collegiate Tournament and got placed as runners-up in Spiel-2017 and Khel, sports tournaments hosted by St Joseph College of Commerce and Mount Carmel College respectively.

The Women's Basketball Team also finished as the runners up in Jyothi Nivas College and winners of Mount Carmel College sports tournament. The Men's Basketball Team was winners in the Jyothi Nivas College and Mount Carmel College sports tournaments.

The Men's Volleyball Team was the second runners up of VIE-2017 tournament, Jain University. They also bagged the runners-up trophy in Mount Carmel College tournament.

The Women's Football Team was the winners of Spiel (St Joseph College), Sphygmus (Jyothi Nivas College) and Mount Carmel College sports meets whereas the Men's Football Team finished first in Jyothi Nivas College, Mount Carmel College and Presidency University tournaments.

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With grief and sorrow, we hereby inform sad demise of Ms Colette Christopher (76) on 07 April 2017.

She served the University as Counselor, Centre for Counseling and Health Service from July 2008 - March 2014.

We offer our deepest condolences and sincerest sympathies to her family and friends.

May Almighty give rest and peace to the departed soul.

Sad Demise

Congratulations University Updates

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An Appeal for all Christite’s to Participate in Annual Giving to the Alumni Fund.

The contribution would be to rise fund for constituting of anAlumni Chair to support the faculty research to mark the celebration of 50 years

of our Alma mater in the year 2019.

Time for all the Alumni of Christ University to support in makinga significant contribution symbolice of the gesture for Giving Back to the Alma mater.

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Mr Jugnu UberoiPresident

Campaign for Contribution

For details contact :Mr Joby John, Office of Alumni Association+91 80 4012 9748 / 88846 88875 or write to us: alumni@christuniversity.in

Christ University Alumni Association, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaHello: +91 80 4012 9748 I Mail us: alumni@christuniversity.in

Visit us: alumni.christuniversity.in

Forthcoming Event:

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DecennialCelebration 2017

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Green Army, Christ University

Tree DrivePlantation A Joint Programme by: Alumni Association & Green Army

to promote around lakes in Bengalurugreenery

In-Kind Sponsor

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