Dr. Ifna Hilda Ejebe and Devashish Das were married Sept. 15 in Plymouth, Minn. The Rev. Terry Rassmussen performed the ceremony at the Little Church of the St. Joseph Roman Catholic Parish.
The bride, who is 33 and will take her husband’s name, is a second-year internal medicine resident at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. She graduated from Harvard and received both a doctoral degree, in population health sciences, and a medical degree from the University of Wisconsin. In 2008 and 2009, she was a Fulbright scholar in Mandeville, Jamaica, where she screened newborns for sickle-cell disease.
She is a daughter of Lilian N. Ejebe and Gabriel C. Ejebe of Plymouth, Minn. Her father is a senior project manager at Open Access Technology International, a software services company in Minneapolis that serves the energy industry. Her mother is a supervising lawyer at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services in St. Paul.
Dr. Das, 31, is an assistant professor in the industrial and management systems engineering department of the University of South Florida in Tampa. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India. He received a doctoral degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
He is a son of the late Manjula Jena, who lived in Rourkela, India, and was the principal of S.K.D.A.V. Government Polytechnic, a technical college in Rourkela.
The couple met through the dating website OkCupid, when both were graduate students in Madison, Wis.
