National student symposium

Chandigarh: The Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) and Department of Physics, Panjab University, will organise the third consecutive IAPT National Student Symposium on Physics (NSSP2015) from September 17 to 19 at the Department of Physics, PU. LOC Chairperson and President IAPT RC3 Prof Manjit Kaur said the NSSP was a unique national forum for young students to present their new ideas and innovative work at an early stage, which would lead to their growth as creative and original researchers. As many as 75 outstation students of BSc and MSc classes from various colleges and universities of India, besides 40 local students will attend the three-day programme.

World Ozone Day

On World Ozone Day, the Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36-B, gave a presentation on ozone depletion awareness to the students. The presentation was given by Harpreet Kaur, a student of the college, under the guidance of Dr Anuradha Agnihotri, NSS programmer of the college. In the presentation, she discussed various causes and effects of depletion of ozone layer and its harmful effects. All faculty members and students took a pledge to save ozone layer, to save ourselves.

Poster-making competition

The Department of Geography of Postgraduate Government College, Sector 46, organised a poster-making competition on the theme of preservation of ozone layer whereby over 50 students had participated. An intense competition was observed with more colourful and thought-provoking posters that were highlighting the immense importance of lifesaving gas - ozone. Before the competition, International Day for the Preservation of Ozone Layer was celebrated whereby Dr Vinay Rajput delivered a talk to apprise the students about the importance of preservation of ozone layer.

Results announced

Panjab University has announced the results of MCom second semester, MSc (HS) Bio-Chemistry, fourth semester, BE (Chemical) with MBA, ninth semester, ME (Chemical), first semester, BEd (USOL) second semester, BA (Hons) Education BEd second semester, BSc (Anesthesia and OT) second year, MEd USOL, second semester, BCom, first semester, Re-evaluation, BCom, third semester, Re-evaluation and MSc (TYC) Botany, second semester. The detailed results will be available on the Panjab University website, http://results.puchd.ac.in/.

Honour for student

Diljott Kaur has stood first in Master Human Rights and Duties in Panjab University for the session 2013-15 and will be awarded with university gold medal. She has always been meritorious academically and had even stood first in the PU in her graduation and was awarded with university gold medal.

Musical dance drama staged

Patiala: It was a miracle in a real sense of the term with an MA-I student of Punjabi University’s Department of Dance, Puneet Kumar Salhotra, most astutely and judiciously bringing into juxtaposition on stage the indiscriminate massacre of nearly 140 innocent schoolchildren by the Taliban suicide bombers in a Peshawar Army school on December 16, 2014 through a musical dance drama, “Jihaad-Ya Fasaad!”. It was almost singlehandedly portraying the most brutal and ruthless incident-of-its-kind by Salhotra, including its conceptualisation, visualisation, designing, choreographing, acting and direction. The ‘complete theatre’ constituted a part of all-student attempt, named “Aagaaz-2015”, winning a thunderous applause and standing ovation from an unprecedentedly jam-packed audience assembled in the university’s kala bhawan. Completely awed and downrightly impressed by the stupendous performance of musical dance drama, chief guest Vice-Chancellor Dr Jaspal Singh announced staging of multiple shows all around the country, to be sponsored by the university, also offered a cash award of Rs 25,000. Director of North Zone Cultural Centre Dr Rajinder Gill and University’s Dean Academic Affairs Dr AS Chawla eulogised the performance as immaculate. Dr Indira Bali, in charge of the Dance Department, supervised the event.

Educational tour

The Department of Physics, GSSDGS Khalsa College, Patiala, conducted a one-day educational tour for postgraduate students of physics. The educational visit was hosted by the Institute of Nanoscience and Technology (INST), Mohali, in a well-planned way. Dr Ashok K Ganguli, Director, INST, Mohali, emphasised on research-oriented education and motivated the students for career in research. Earlier, Dr Deepika Sharma, Scientist ‘B’, INST, Mohali, welcomed and presented the programme schedule for the visit to the faculty and students of the college. There were three lectures by the eminent scientists of the institute. Dr Sharmistha Sinha, Dean Research, gave an overview of the research and academic activities of the INST, Mohali. Dr Suvankar Chakraverty detailed about “Nano-Magnetism: A Paradigm” and “Nanostructures: From Device to Interconnect” was explained by Dr Kaushik Ghosh. The programme was followed by a visit to the INST Faraday lab. The laboratory visit made students aware of the sophisticated and advanced characterisation techniques required for basic and advanced research. — TNS