Webinar on research publication

Phagwara: GNA University organised a virtual webinar on ‘Research Publication in ABDC and High Impact Journals’ for research scholars and faculty members. The resource person for the webinar was Dr Nripendra Singh, professor of marketing, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, United States. Dr Nripendra Singh started the session with perspective that the contemporary academic ideology in the universities across the world is now either publish or perish. In this regard, the resource person elaborated the concept of impact factor and other research metrics for understanding journal’s worth. Dr Nripendra Singh talked about the components of writing a good research paper and shared examples from varied domains and explained meaningfully how pre and post coherent communication with the journal officials was pivotal in understanding their perspective towards the submitted research paper. At the end, Dr Disha Khanna, deputy dean, faculty of liberal arts, shared her formal views on the webinar expressing it to be a thorough journey of knowing all the nuances of good research writing. Dr Sandilyan, dean, faculty of hospitality, presented a formal vote of thanks. Gurdeep Singh Sihra, Pro-Chancellor, GNA University, Dr VK Rattan, Vice- Chancellor, Dr Monika Hanspal, dean academics, GNA University, said webinars would surely add to the academic potential of the research scholars and the faculty members of the university giving them a new cutting edge to delve deep into research.

Best out of waste competition

Jalandhar: Ivy World School organised the ‘Best out of waste competition’ for the kindergarten wing. Little hands and imaginative minds came together in a creative burst of energy during the contest. Children used their imagination and creativity to make innovative things from broken bangles, plastic bottles, waste iron nails, peanut shells, beads, thermocol glasses, old CDs etc. All these waste materials were used in a constructive manner and a variety of things were made using them. Students made cloth doll, wall hanging with bangles, doll with tea strainer, night lamp with a bottle and artistically made paper flowers. The criterion for the competition was presentation, use of material, innovation and overall effect. S Chauhan, Principal, Ivy World School, appreciated the imagination of kids and motivated them to reduce the waste to save our planet Earth. She also appreciated the ability of the students to organise their thoughts to create such beautiful items

4 DAVIET students get job offer

Four students from electrical department of DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology were selected for Radsol Design Private Limited at a salary package of Rs 3 lakh per annum. Radsol is a design and consultancy firm which provides third party design services to number of different clients and also drawings in auto cad, do extensive wire calculations in Excel etc. The company has selected the students after rigorous rounds comprising of online test, group discussion, technical and HR interview. The selected students Dimple Verma, Mamta Devi, Amit and Ritik had shared that they had started preparing for the placement drive early and concentrated on developing their interpersonal skills along with the enhancing their knowledge about the core areas. They shared that to suit the needs of the company a special effort was done to learn technical and analytical Skills. Sushil Prashar, head, department of training and placement, along with Vishav Kapoor, Ratish Bhardwaj and Kalpana Sharma appreciated the hard work put in by students and highlighted that special efforts were done to invite companies to hire students of DAVIET in such a pandemic situation. TNS