NAGAR Community News

Isha Antani, daughter of Bhargav and Jalashree Antani of New Jersey (USA), has graduated with high honours and Summa Cum Laude from Rutgers University majoring in Genetics and minoring in Art History. Isha completed the 4 year program in three years and was awarded the degree this past May.

Congratulations to Isha and her family on this commendable educational achievement.

Isha, daughter of Bhargav and Jalashree Antani, has won "The Bharat Yatra V Essay Writing Award", sponsored by the New York Life Insurance Company. (details are on the New York Life Company's website)

Isha received the award for writing an essay on the topic "Wildlife conservation in India: Present day challenges and measures required for positive action." She along with 15 other winners from all over North America, are sponsored by NY Life for a 2 week ecological study tour to Karnataka (July 21-Aug 3).

New York Life has placed ads in North American Indian newspapers announcing the 15 winners and these papers will be out the week of the 2nd of July. The list of the papers carrying the announcement:

West Coast: India West, India Journal.
East Coast: News India Times, Desi Talk.
Texas : Indo American News,
Magazines: Garvi Gujarat.
National: India Abroad, Gujarat Samachar, Sandesh

Isha wishes to thank her father, mother, sister, Moha, grandma, Naliniben Antani, and her cousin, Diwant Vaidya, for helping her achieve this goal.

NAGAR congratulates Isha on winning this award and wishes her an educational and exciting trip to India.

Kunil Raval, son of Dr Kaushik and Pratibha Raval of Saginaw, Michigan (USA) has graduated in May 2007 with high honors B.Sc(Hon) degree from Michigan State University. He has completed 4 year program majoring in Bio-chemistry and Molecular Biology with Chemistry.

Kunil Raval has secured admission in a prestigious School of Medicine at University of Wisconsin, Madison under MSTP (Medical Scientist Training Program) winning the full scholarship. At the end of his program, he will be awarded with two doctoral degrees of MD/Ph.D.

Congratulations to Kunil and his parents upon Kunil's graduation with B.Sc.(Hon) degree, direct admission to MD/Ph.D. program and winning full scholarship!

NAGAR wish him good luck for a successful medical career and have his all dreams come true!

(Prepared by Kunil's Grandparents - Shri Mahendra Joshi & Smt. Kokilaben Joshi, Glendale, Arizona)