Activities of Chemistry Department

Activities for Academic Year 2012-13

 

1.Guest Lectures. read more..

 

2. Workshop. read more..

 

3. The Chemistry Department arranged a talk by Dr K Srinivasa Rao , Managing Director, IIBT pvt ltd., on 27th August 2012. He and his associate Ms Lakshmi, spoke to M.Sc and B.Sc students about career opportunities in Biotechnology and other fields of Life Sciences.

Activities for academic Year 2011-12:

Workshop:

A workshop on "Green Chemistry" was organized in December 2011. Lecturers from different colleges participated in this. Dr. Apurba Bhattacharya from the University of Texas, A & M, Kingsville and Prof PSN Reddy former Head, Chemistry Department OU, gave very interesting talks. Prof. Sondu, Head, Chemistry Department OU was the chief guest.

 

A Talk on Plagiarism:

Dr. Latha Surendra addressed the staff of Bhavan's on Plagiarism in March 2012.

 

IYC

Since the year 2011 has been declared the Year of Chemistry (IYC), a series of programs were arranged. On the 10th of August, a poster presentation was conducted. Students put up posters on "Chemistry in daily life". In September 2011, two students Sujata Srinivas and Bhaskar Kasbekar gave a talk to students and teachers of other departments on "Chemistry in daily life". In November 2011, a talk was given by an alumnus Dr. Naresh, currently a post doctoral researcher at University of California, Berkeley. He told students about opportunities available to them after their B.Sc.

Industrial Visit:

The students of the II year were taken for a visit to the IKP (ICICI Knowledge Park). They saw the facilities available there and visited the Garden of Life where 200 species of medicinal plants are grown.

Wall Magazine:

Since the year 1997, the Department has been putting up a science wall magazine. This magazine is edited by students. This year, in addition to puttting articles of scientific interest, they had conducted a weekly science quiz through this medium.

 

IYC
  
 
Industrial Visit
Wall Magazine
  

Green Chemistry
Industrial Visit

 

Activities 2010-11:

We organize guest lectures  on topics related to the course of study.
Some of these are:

  1. Bio-technology, the next revolution?? – by Dr. Anil Kumar Challa, Co-founder, Indigenese.

  2. Bio-Informatics for Biologists- by Dr. Rachelle, Senior Scientist at CCMB.

    3.   In coordination with the other departments of Life Sciences, we organized a Career  Counseling workshop for students of Intermediate to create awareness about the various career options available after a B.Sc degree in life sciences.

    4.     A talk on HIV and AIDS  by Dr Vidya Jonnalagadda

    5.      In-house  presentations titled “ Lab Safety”  and   “Plagiarism”

    6.      Student seminars on various topics of scientific interest.

 The Chemistry Department has coordinated a value−addition course titled “ Foundation  Course for Bioinformatics”  organized for Life Sciences students in 2010-2011.

The department has maintained a Science Wall Magazine since 1998 where students put up scientific articles of common  interest.
Our students also take part in poster presentations, quiz competitions and seminars regularly.