PSG Institute of Management

A laptop charger ("made in china", unable to find the brand name) has been found. Those who lost the charger, please contact Room No: 102 for collecting it.

If anyone needs CD/ DVD covers, you may also ask for the same. CD/ DVD covers are distributed free of cost. These covers were collected as part of the e-recycling drive (For more details, read the below post).

Do you know that E-wastes including “trashed” Compact Discs (CD), Flash Drives, Mobile Phones & Accessories, DVDs etc...

...reach Landfills and spoil underground water?
...release toxic chemicals and cause Skin & Lung diseases?

How can “you” help?
Collect old & unusable Compact Discs (CD), Flash drives, Mobile Phones & Accessories from your home, office, community and other sources. The materials collected as part of the drive will go to appropriate recycling centers (For example, Nokia Recycling, EcoReco (http://ecoreco.com/), ITC Wealth Out of Waste program etc.).

The idea is to recycle rather than dump! You can deposit the earlier mentioned items in the cardboard cartons kept in Room No: 102.

Contact: Sujatha (+919894750220) / NG Venkat (+918098704997), IInd year EMBA students, for more details. You can also forward the attached PPT to your friends/ colleagues/ relatives etc.

Some of you may have heard about “cloud computing”. One of the companies that has now emerged as leaders in this field is IBM. IBM, in 2004, started a distributed computing project to benefit humanity by supporting humanitarian causes. This was as part of their corporate social responsibility endeavors and this project is known as World Community Grid (WCG).

Some of the projects that World Community Grid works on is to find cure for cancer, muscular dystrophy, dengue, malaria, schistoma, to research into clean energy production, and producing clean water etc. All the results are released into the public domain.

PSGIM stakeholders like students, faculty and alumni has been promoting this project. Thanks to all their initiatives and support, PSGIM has recently been recognized as a partner of World Community Grid. Visit the link http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewOurPartners.do to see who the partners of WCG are – some of the leading corporations, non-profits and universities of the world.

PSGIM is the first academic institution from South Asia to partner with World Community Grid.

You too can join the project by sharing the unused and idle processing power of your computer. Visit http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org to know more about the project. Once you are a member of World Community Grid, you can choose yourself to be part of the “PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore” team in WCG.

EARTH HOUR 2012

On March 4 (Sunday), there will be a lecture session at The Convention Hall, PSG Institute of Management (PSGIM), Coimbatore, on the theme of "Mind, Body, Atma (MBA): An Exploration" by Swami Swaroopananda, Acharya, Chinmaya Mission. While this session is being conducted for Anna University second year MBA HR students, all who are interested in such a topic are invited to attend the event.

Swami Swaroopananda is a Master of India's spiritual wisdom and has addressed audiences around the world. Swami Swaroopananda left his family's thriving business in Hong Kong at an early age to seek what he now calls, "Real answers to real problems". He has undergone monastic training under the tutelage of Swami Chinmayananda and soon became the Acharya-in-charge of Far East. Since 1995, Swami Swaroopananda was based at Melbourne. He is also the Director of Chinmaya International Residential School, Coimbatore.

The session timings are 9:00 AM - 10.30 AM, followed by a 30 min break, followed by the second session between 11:00 AM - 12.30/ 1.00 PM. Participants are expected to be at the convention hall by 8.45 AM and they are expected to be present for both the sessions, in order to derive maximum benefit from the lecture. You may also invite others who are interested in such themes.

Thankyou.