PU professor awarded travel grant for USA

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Chandigarh, February 19

Dr JS Sehrawat, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, has been awarded International Travel Grant by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Government of India, to attend and present his research papers in-person at the 74th Annual Scientific Meeting of American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) in Seattle, WA (USA).

The conference will be held at Washington State Convention Centre, Seattle (WA), from February 21 to 25. Dr Sehrawat said thousands of delegates from across the world participated the in the AAFS annual scientific meeting every year.

Dr Sehrawat expects some excellent scientific collaborations and net workings with researchers from global universities and research institutions to boost academics and research.

Dr Sehrawat is working for the forensic identification of thousands of unknown human skeletal remains excavated from an abandoned well at Ajnala (Amritsar, India). The SERB, Department of Science and Technology, has funded this project of national importance.

The human remains reportedly belong to 282 Indian sepoys killed by the British forces in August 1857 during India’s first freedom struggle against the colonial rulers.

Dr Sehrawat has presented his research papers in England, New Orleans, Seattle, Baltimore, Toronto, Portugal, Anaheim and other places. He will present a research paper entitled “Multi-isotopic analysis of Ajnala skeletal remains for provenance of their local or non-local origin, geographic affinity and mobility patterns” in the USA.