Tarn Taran students plant saplings in school

Tarn Taran: Students and staff of Guru Amar Dass Adarsh Institute, Goindwal Sahib, planted saplings on the school complex, in the wake of global warming on Monday. Institute Director Jatinderpal Singh Randhawa explained to the students about the importance of trees in their lives and urged them to plant as many trees as possible in homes as well as in schools so that future generations could live a prosperous life. oc

Best poster award for GNDU researcher

Amritsar: Aditya Singh, working as the CSIR-SRF under the supervision of Dr Vandana Bhalla in the Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, has received the best poster award at the 29th CRSI national symposium in chemistry (CRSI-NSC) held at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, from July 7 to 9. Aditya Singh presented the poster entitled “Phenazine-based supramolecular photosensitizing assemblies: A ‘smart’ control on catalytic activity of Pd (II) nanoparticles”. The work describes the role of phenazine-based supramolecular assemblies (PPA) which show strong affinity toward Pd2 ions to generate the stable nanocatalyst PPA @Pdnanoparticles (NPs), which catalyses Suzuki cross-coupled reaction under mild conditions with recyclability up to seven cycles without much change in the reaction yields. The efficiency of PPA@Pd NPs to catalyse the Suzuki cross-coupled reactions has been demonstrated for gram-scale synthesis as well as for the preparation of unsymmetrically substituted terphenyl. The present work reveals the significant contribution of phenzaine-based supramolecular assemblies in overcoming the formation of side products.

Webinar at Khalsa College of Nursing

A two-day national research webinar was conducted at Khalsa College of Nursing. College Principal Dr Kamaljit Kaur and Vice-Chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (Faridkot), Raj Bahadur presided over the programme. Kamaljit and other research experts gave detailed information on various topics related to research. Teachers and students from different nursing colleges attended the two-day research session.