Seven Indian American students are among the 30 graduate students nationwide recently named as Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellows for 2006.
Fellows receive a stipend of up to $20,000 plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States.
Three of these students, Amit Bouri, Susan Mathai and Vipin Narang are Harvard-affiliated. The other four are Achal Achrol, Snehal Desai, Shantanu Nundy and Amritsar- born Amandeep Singh.
Amit Bouri is pursuing a MPP/MBA joint degree at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he is leading global health and corporate social-responsibility initiatives.
Susan Mathai is a first-year MD candidate at Yale. Vipin Narang is a PhD student in the Department of Government at Harvard, where he focuses on international security studies. Achal Achrol is a first-year MD candidate at Stanford Medical School.
