PTI

Houston, Tx, Mar 16: Seven Indian Americans are among 31 recipients of this year's Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.

The fellowship, open to resident aliens, naturalised US citizens, and first generation Americans who have completed or are about to complete undergraduate degrees, will support each student for up to two years of graduate study.

Gaurav Gupta, 21, of McLean, Va., will use his fellowship to attend medical school this September. A biomedical engineering major at Johns Hopkins University, Gupta has been conducting cardiovascular physiology research since his freshman year, and has been listed as a co-author on three academic publications.

Amit Kaushal, 25, of Newhall, Calif., is pursuing a combined MD/PhD at Stanford University. He has completed two years of medical school and is now in the first year of his PhD in biomedical informatics.

Sumir Meghani, born in Burlington, VT, a first-year MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, holds a BA in economics and an MS in computer science, both from Stanford University.

Nina Shen Rastogi, 28, currently an associate editor at Barnes and Noble Publishing, plans on entering a master's programme in journalism in the fall. Rastogi holds a BA in English from Yale University and an MA in Shakespearean studies from King's College London and the Globe Theatre.

Raj Shah, 28, born in Madisonville, TX,, currently a special assistant to the Deputy Undersecretary of Defence for International Technology Security in the US Department of Defence, plans to attend business school in the fall.