Ramaswamys honor family through student scholarship
Sonny Ramaswamy and Gita Ramaswamy will always hold Mississippi State University in high regard. Although they make their home in Redmond, Washington, for a time their life centered around Starkville and Mississippi’s largest research university. A new endowed student scholarship now connects them in perpetuity with MSU, where they spent the early years of their distinguished careers.
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Originally from India, the couple has been married almost 40 years. The Ramaswamys came to the United States to study for their doctorates; Sonny in 1976 and Gita in 1978. They moved to Starkville in 1982 for faculty positions at MSU. In the years that followed, they held numerous roles over some 15 years in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Sonny was a professor of entomology, and Gita was a professor of human environment and design. The Ramaswamys are strong proponents of education and longtime financial supporters of educational institutions in the United States and India. Their most recent gift at MSU establishes the Padmavathi and P.R. Narasimhan Endowed Scholarship in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in tribute to Gita’s late parents. In their native India, P.R. Narasimhan, Gita’s father, had a long career with his country’s government as chief engineer for All India Radio and was instrumental in creating the transmission grid for the state-owned television network. Her
