Jain Digest 2004 01 Vol 23 No 1

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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PEOPLE IN NEWS:
SACHINJAIN WINS MAJOR NATIONAL SOROS GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
FIRST F. T. BACON MEDAL
TO DR. HANS C. MARU
PADAMSHREE SHRI KUMARPAL DESAI
Shri Kumarpal Desai (61), has been awarded the Padma Shri by the Govt. of India. He is a many-faceted personality. Director of Gujarat University's School of Languages and Dean of Faculty of Arts, Desai is an eminent litterateur, columnist,
litterateur, columnist, sportswriter and a scholar of Jainism and has more than 110 books to his credit of which nine have received awards from Central and state governments. He started writing at the age of eleven and now guides research students in the fields of Gujarati literature, journalism and Jain philosophy. He has received several awards including "Ahimsa International, Deeptimal Adishwarlal Award for Literature for 1997', Best sports journalist award, Gujarat Ratna, Jain Jyotirdhar Award, President's Special Award Diwaliben Mohanlal Mehta Charitable Trust award for promoting spiritual values and Indian Culture', Jain Ratna' award and many more. Sh. Desai regularly delivers lectures on Jainism in the US, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Belgium and Kenya. He attended as a key speaker on Jainism at the seventh biennial Jain convention at Pittsburgh in July 1993 and had addressed the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago (1993) and again at Cape Town in South Africa (1999). Desai was a member of the Jain delegation, which had an audience with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
(Courtesy: Jainsamaj)
Dr. Hans Maru, Chief Sachin Jain, a native of New Jer Technology Officer of FuelCell Energy. sey, and now at Harvard Medical School, Inc. has received the FIRST FT. Bacon is among the thirty 2004 Paul and Daisy Medal for fuel cell research and Soros New American Fellows. Fellows deployment. The award was presented on receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half- March 9 at a ceremony sponsored by the tuition for as many as two years of gradu- University of Connecticut's Global Fuel ate study at any institution of higher learn- Cell Center. Dr. Maru is executive viceing in the United States.
president and chief technology officer at Almost 1000 applicants, who are FuelCell Energy, a leading manufacturer naturalized citizens, resident aliens, or the of stationary fuel cell power plants for children of naturalized citizens, completed distributed generation. He is an applications this year. They represented internationally recognized expert in the fuel 141 countries of national origin and came cell field and has been granted 13 patents from 360 colleges and universities. The in this area. thirty fellows were selected from eighty
The medal was established by the four finalists who were interviewed in New Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center in York and Los Angeles.
conjunction with its first annual SACHIN JAIN is a second-year International Conference on Fuel Cell student at Harvard Medical School, where Development and Deployment held March he is president of the Harvard Medical 8-10 on the UConn Storrs, Conn., campus. School Student Council. In 2002, The medal honors the memory and work SACHIN received his BA magna cum of the late British scientist F.T. (Tom) laude in Government from Harvard Bacon, an early pioneer in the practical College. As an undergraduate, SACHIN applications of fuel cell technology. co-founded a homeless health care clinic "The customers, employees and and was named a John Kenneth Galbraith shareholders of FuelCell Energy benefit Scholar. He has authored and published from Hans' technological leadership in works in health policy while working at bringing fuel cells to the point where they the Institute for Health Care Improvement are no longer a mere laboratory curiosity and the Alpha Center. SACHIN has been or found only in space ships, but are awarded an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship available for commercial sale today." to support his work with the homeless, as
Dr. Maru has authored over 140 well as a President's Discretionary Fund publications, including chapters in two grant from the Commonwealth Fund to lead books. He has also edited from symposium the development of a health policy proceeding volumes for fuel cells and education program for medical students. batteries. He received a Ph.D. from Illinois
Institute of Technology in Chemical Engineering in 1975.
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