OTHER INTERESTS

 

Diversity

 

    Inducted into the North Dakota State University Tapestry of Diverse Talents, April 1990

 

    Adviser, Association of Students from India, NDSU, 1985-1999

 

Tennis

 

Cricket

 

    Was responsible to get a field dedicated to Cricket from the City of Moorhead and have it astroturfed.

 

Music

 

    Interested in Western and Indian classical music

   

    As the Adviser of the Association of Students from India, was responsible for bringing many

    Indian classical music performances of to NDSU and Fargo-Moorhead community

 

    Founded a bhajan group in the Fargo-Moorhead East Indian community.

 

Travel

 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers

 

The Association of Students from India at NDSU (Faculty Adviser: G. Padmanabhan) was adjudged the student association that provided the best cultural program on NDSU campus, 1999.

 

                Inducted into the North Dakota State University Tapestry of Diverse Talents, April 1990

 

                David Ross Research Fellowship, 1977-80, Purdue University

 

                Chi Epsilon , 1980

 

Sigma Xi, 1980