The Connecticut chapter of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin will honour the mayor of the city of Stamford and two Indian Americans for their outstanding achievement and contributions, at its third anniversary celebration slated for April 26 at the Italian Center of Stamford, Connecticut.
While Mayor Dannel Malloy will receive the Friend of GOPIO honor, Dr Natarajan, associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, will be honored with the Indian-American Achiever Award,
and Dr Kapur, director of music technology at California Institute of the Arts and professor of sonic arts at the New Zealand School of Music, will be presented the Young Person of the Year Award.
The awardees have enriched our lives and the community we live in with their dedication, contributions and the passion for what they do and have accomplished," according to Sangeeta Ahuja, the chapter's president. Natarajan will be presented the Indian-American Achiever Award for her accomplishment and contributions to astro-physics and her research on black holes. She is a Radcliffe fellow and had her undergraduate education at MIT and was a
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