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South Asia and the Institute

Transformative Connections

  • Welcome
    • Timeline
      • Map
    • Tilak and Special Students
    • First 10 Students
    • Pioneers: The First South Asian Students and Faculty by School
      • MIT School of Science: The Pioneers
      • MIT School of Engineering: The Pioneers
      • MIT School of Architecture + Planning: The Pioneers
      • MIT Sloan School of Management: The Pioneers
      • MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: The Pioneers
    • South Asian Women at MIT
      • The First South Asian Women at MIT
    • Gandhians at the Institute
      • Student Protests
    • MIT Alumni as Nation-builders
    • Prime Ministers Visit MIT
      • Jawaharlal Nehru’s Goodwill Tour, 1949
      • Liaquat Ali Khan’s State Visit, 1950
    • Civil Rights and Democracy
    • MIT in South Asia
    • The Indian Institutes of Technology
  • MIT Students & Faculty
    • Faculty
      • Pranab Baradhan
      • John Ely Burchard '1923, MS 1925
      • Norman Dahl
      • Professor Anita Desai
      • Professor Sheena Iyengar
      • Sitikantha Mahapatra
      • Popatlal M. Patel
      • Professor Raaj Kumar Sah
      • Professor Deblina Sarkar
      • Professor Prabha Iyengar Sridharan
      • Myron Weiner
      • Norbert Wiener
      • Jerome Wiesner
    • Students
      • Suneel Mohan Advani '68, '69
      • Kshitish Chandra Basu 1915, SM 1916
      • Keshav Malhar Bhat
      • Amar Gopal Bose '51, SM'52, ScD '46, Professor (1955-2001)
      • Suresh Chandra Bose 1929
      • Diwan Nanak Chand 1917
      • Madhukar J. Chauhan
      • M.N. Dastur ScD'49
      • Birendra Chandra Gupta 1907, SM 1922
      • Sonal Jhaveri ‘70 SM ‘73
      • Bal Dattatrey Kalelkar
      • Shantanu Lakshman Kirloskar 1926
      • Asha Kapadia SM '65
      • Nergis Mavalvala PhD '97
      • Bala Preshad Mathur 1911
      • Swapna Mukhopadhyay PhD '73
      • Priti Paul '90
      • Almitra Pheroze (Sidhwa) Patel ‘58, SM ‘59
      • Ram Prasad ScD 1922
      • Fauzia Qureshi MAA '80
      • Habibur Rahman '43, MA '44
      • Mohammed Akhlaqur Rahman PhD '62
      • Peelamedu Rangaswamy Ramakrishnan ’41, SM ’45, SM ’53
      • H. H. Abdul Razzack 1924
      • Kiron Chandra Roy 1929
      • Anjali Sastry '86, PhD '95
      • Janendra Mohan Sil 1924
      • Trikamlal Mansukhlal Shah 1929
      • Uday P. Sukhatme '66, ScD '71
      • Sarbani Bublu Thakur-Weigold '88
      • Ishwar Das Varshnei
      • Lakshmi Vulimiri PhD '76
  • About
  • Events
    • Opening Celebration
    • Closing Celebration
    • Visitors to the Exhibit
    • Great Dome Award
    • Gallery
  1. Welcome
  2. South Asian Women at MIT
  3. The First South Asian Women at MIT

The First South Asian Women at MIT

MIT School of Architecture and Planning

Priti Paul

Priti Paul '90

Fauzia Qureshi Picture

Fauzia Qureshi MAA '80

Image

Professor Deblina Sarkar

MIT School of Engineering

Sidhwa Cropped

Almitra P  (Sidhwa) Patel ‘58, SM ‘59

Vilas Sridharan

Prabha Iyengar Sridharan, Assistant Professor (1973-76)

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Freshman photo of Dr. Anjali Sastry as an MIT undergraduate

Dr. Anjali Sastry '86, PhD '95

Mukhopadhyay with friends

Swapna Mukhopadhyay, PhD '73

Anita Desai photo

Anita Desai, (1993-)

MIT School of Science

Sonal Jhaveri Image

Sonal Jhaveri ‘70 SM ‘73

Lakshmi Vulmiri Picture 1

Dr. Lakshmi Vulimiri, PhD '76

Nergis Mavalvala

Nergis Mavalvala, Professor (2002-), Dean of the School of Science (2020-), PhD '97

MIT Sloan School of Management

Thakur Photo

Dr. Sarbani Bublu Thakur-Weigold, '88

Asha Kapadia

Professor Asha Seth Kapadia, SM '65

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