Mingkee Achom : Selected in University of Warwick, UK for PhD with "International Vice Chancellors Scholarship"

Roudrajit Moirang *

Mingkee Achom

Ms. Mingkee Achom, eldest daughter of Achom Khogen Singh and Achom (o) H. Shattabala Devi, residence of Sagolband Tera Amudon Leirak, Imphal West, India has been awarded as one of the 25 students among all the international overseas applicants for the highly competitive fully-funded International Vice Chancellors Scholarship to pursue PhD at the reputed University of Warwick, UK.

She has been selected in the field of Life Sciences to carry out a PhD project entitled “Investigating microRNA control of nodulation in single cell types” starting from Sept 2014.

Ms. Mingkee earned her MSc. (Agri.) degree in Plant Biotechnology at University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, Karnataka as a DBT-HRD fellow, New Delhi student on Sept 2013.

She completed her BSc. (Agri.) degree from Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam on 2011. She is a former student of Manipur Public School, Koirengei and Nirmalabas High School, Imphal.

Screen shot of results

Notes from Roudrajit Moirang

Dear epao team,

It is our extreme pleasure to share this incredible news of my niece, Ms. Mingkee Achom that she has been selected among the top 25 international applicants in one of the reputed UK universities, The University of Warwick for her PhD program. The award is deemed extremely competitive as it selects only outstanding students for fully funded research students across all the 29 departments in University of Warwick.

In this regard,I, Roudrajit Moirang, would like to contribute my niece's success as a part of news so that the emerging students could also be motivated to achieve such feat. I have attached here the written format of her achievement and the mail she received as a offer letter for the result of the award. I would also like to mention that this particular university contacts only the selected 25 students through mail. The link for the details of the Scholarship is given here from the university website:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/gsp/scholarship/typesoffunding/phd/chancellorsinternationalscholarships

Further, the mail she received has also been attached here as a screen shot, news in word format and her photo. Lastly, I would be very much happy and grateful to the team of epao for publishing it online. I strongly believe that the news will be a great boost for our youths.

Thagatchari.

Sincerely,
Roudrajit Moirang