Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, releases science journal

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 23

SciRox, the Science Club of Guru Nanak Dev University, released a peer-reviewed quarterly science education journal, Inertia. District Education Officer (SE), S Satinderbir Singh, today released the first issue of Inertia; An Interdisciplinary Science Education Journal in an inaugural function held at Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Mall Road.

The first issue of the journal consists of messages and articles from eminent personalities, which includes Prof (Dr) Jaspal Singh Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Prof Arvind, Vice-Chancellor, Punjabi University Patiala, Prof RC Singh, university honorary professor, GNDU, Dr Somdatta Karak, science communication officer at CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad, and many more.

SciRox, Science Club, GNDU, with a vision that open access provides an equitable way to disseminate scientific ideas started this journal that aims to publish science articles for non-experts so as to promote scientific temperament among people belonging to different age groups, background and demographics. The journal will be published on a quarterly basis and will also invite write ups and contributions from eminent scientific scholars and scientists from the region.

Addressing the gathering, university honorary professor, Prof RC Singh said the primary focus of this journal was to popularise science in regional languages and take the message of science to the society.