Indian-American philanthropists made headlines this year through their generous contributions, especially to American universities. A few months ago, textile industry executive Anil Kochhar and his wife Marilyn announced they would pay the education loan of the graduating students of the Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University. This included 176 bachelor's students and 26 master's students.
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The major announcement shed light on the Indian-American philanthropists helping students in America in memory of their own student life in the US.
Noe, Jyoti Bhatia, and Nishi Bhatia announced the creation of an endowment to support graduate fellowships for students at the University of Texas. The fellowship is named 'The Nishi and Jyoti P Bhatia Fellowship'. A collaboration space on the first floor of the Engineering and Computer Science West Building at the university in Dallas has been named after them.
