Rudraksha selected for Int’l RISE Fellowship Programme
| Date :28-Sep-2022 |
By Dr Satyaprakash Sharma
GWALIOR,
Rudraksha Mohapatra has been selected as the Global Winner for the prestigious International RISE Fellowship Programme for higher education. Rudraksha is among 100 students across the world, who have been selected for the Fellowship Programme. Including Rudraksha, only 16 aspirants from India have secured a place in the announced list.
The fellowship is given to 100 meritorious students from all over the world. The selection for the scholarship is based on an international-level competitive exam, which is conducted in several stages. The RISE is a programme that finds brilliant students in the age group 15-17 by conducting tests all over the world.
The fellowship is the flagship programme of the United States-based organisations, Schmidt Futures and Rhodes Trust, it searches for students who need opportunities and supports them for life as they work to serve others. Under the fellowship programme, the organisations offer benefits including scholarships, mentorship, access to career development opportunities, funding and more as Global Winners toward solving humanity’s more pressing problems.
The organisations announced the second cohort of the hundred RISE Global Winners.
Rudraksh is a class XII student of Delhi Public School and is the son of Professor, S N Mohapatra who is the head of the department of Journalism and Earth Sciences at Jiwaji University, Gwalior. His mother, Padmani Pani also a
professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Rudraksh is a brilliant student and innovator. He has been appointed as N-ROADS Climate Ambassador by US-based organisation ‘Climate Interactive’. He has also been awarded the Ricoh Sustainable Development Award at Initiative for Research and Innovation in STEM national fair organised by Union Ministry of Science and Technology. He is a member of prestigious New York Academy of Sciences in junior Academy, USA. Rudrakshis also a Yale Young Global Scholar.
