{"id":949,"date":"2012-05-17T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T15:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boo.simmons.edu\/wpress\/?page_id=949"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:22:20","slug":"past-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/service\/past-service\/","title":{"rendered":"accomplishments \/ past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/\">service<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/service-to-school\/\">to school<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/service-to-college\/\">to college<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/service-to-profession\/\">to profession<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/past-service\/\">past service \/ other accomplishments<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/service-to-humanity\/\">to humanity<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>PAST SERVICE<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">2006-2007 Director &#8211; Academic, Research and Cultural Affairs, NUS Graduate Students Society<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">2005-2009 Lab In-charge, Information Management Lab<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1998-1999 President, NTU Debating Society<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1994 School Captain, TNA<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1994 Vice President, All Sikkim Students&#8217; Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>OTHER ACTIVITIES \/ ACCOMPLISHMENTS<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">October 2012 Awarded the James M. Cretsos Leadership Award of the American Society for Information Science &amp; Technology (ASIS&amp;T). Featured in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simmons.edu\/gslis\/news\/news\/2012.php#news6004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simmons GSLIS news<\/a>, the Talk Sikkim magazine and the Sikkim Express newspaper (Jan 3, 2013).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">March 2011 A Brilliant Mind, Profile &#8211; Naresh Agarwal. Featured in a multiple-page story in\u00a0<em>Talk Sikkim<\/em>, monthly news magazine from Sikkim, India with a readership of more than 20,000, 4(3), 42-45, cover inset.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/nareshagarwal\/files\/2012\/07\/TalkSikkim-March2011-NareshAgarwal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publisher full-text PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Painter\/Artist (1983-present); passion for Fine Arts with works in oil, watercolor, pencil; TV feature; exhibitions; awards<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sculpting (2007-2008); led a student team to sculpt in marble for the NUS School of Computing with the help of sculptor Chong Fah Cheong<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Model\/Actor<em>\u00a0<\/em>(2004-2007); part-time roles in Mediacorp Singapore Channel 5 True Files Seasons 3 &amp; 4, Killer Waves, MTV Rouge, etc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Debater (1996-1999) Top 15 in NTU, member of NTU Inter-Varsity Debating Squad; AIDA-certified International Debates Adjudicator<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Multi-lingual Fluent in spoken\/written English, Hindi, Nepali, Rajasthani; learnt little of Tamil, Bengali, French &amp; Mandarin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>service &#8211; to school | to college | to profession | past service \/ other accomplishments | to humanity PAST SERVICE 2006-2007 Director &#8211; Academic, Research and Cultural Affairs, NUS Graduate Students Society 2005-2009 Lab In-charge, Information Management Lab 1998-1999 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/service\/past-service\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-949","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6375,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/949\/revisions\/6375"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}