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Article: FIRST CSU ENDOWMENT FOR SIKH, PUNJABI STUDIES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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California State University East Bay issued the following press release:
Ranjit Singh SabharwalA partnership between the Sikh community and California State University, East Bay is creating the Dr. Ranjit Singh Sabharwal Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies, the first endowed chair of its kind in the CSU system.
Professor Sabharwal, who passed away July 23, 2006 at age 81, was a leader in the East Bay Sikh community and at the university, where he taught mathematics since 1968. The chair is named in his honor and carries out his dream of forging a relationship between the Sikh community and the university he served for four decades.
"I'm very proud to be part of this collaboration between our ...