Anil Kumar Challa | 30 DEC 2011

Low budget digital microscopy for schools and informal learning environments.

When I began interacting with children (elementary to high school) in Hyderabad, I realized that it was not very easy to get them excited about biology.  This was especially visible when one saw the excitement that chemistry experiments created.  I could even bring some excitement into astronomy using the open-source 'Stellarium' software.

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Satyajit Mayor | 27 DEC 2011
 
Teaching and Research initiative in India  
Science education and research in India is experiencing a huge fillip. In addition to cutting edge and exciting research in existing institutes  a number of new and exciting educational initiatives have been set into motion in the past four years. This is not only transforming the opportunities for talented young students of science, but also providing an incentive for researchers to return to India at this time.
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Vijay Chandru | 14 December 2011

The Neem Genome and a Public-Private-Partnership

Friday September 30th 2011 morning when scientists all over India scanned the newspaper while they had their “cuppa”, some caught a small headline with a picture insert that resembled the one below.

“Ganit Labs in Bangalore sequences the Neem Genome”.

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Dr. Savita Ayyar

This is a time of tremendous expansion in Indian science and the mood is one of optimism, change and opportunity for scientists. It is important to appreciate that India today has tremendous possibilities not just for science per se, but for the extended range of activities that are now needed to sustain cutting-edge scientific research.

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From lab-bench to a desk at India Alliance

At 15, I was sure I wanted to do a PhD. Biology intrigued me, I thought DNA replication was more symphonic than Beethoven's 5th, and a career discovering fundamental truths was a privilege. When my postdoc-stint did not go my way, I started exploring other things in which I could combine my interest of science and education. This is when I realised that there were career choices beyond a life in academia!

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L.S.Shashidhara | 16 JUN 2011 | filed under : Education

Science Education and Research in 21st Century India

As the Indian society is reinventing itself, it is going through a massive change. To ensure sustainable growth, we need to move from service economy to knowledge economy. In this context, we are ushering a new education system in science and technology to bring Indian intelligentsia into knowledge production.

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Will they return?

"Will They Return? The Willingness of Potential Faculty to Return to India and the Key Factors Affecting Their Decisions" authored by researchers from Rutgers University and Tata Institute for Social Science sheds light on the different factors which concern potential faculty/scientists wanting to return to India.

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MC Arunan | 29 MAR 2011 | filed under : Education

University-Institute Interactions: How will it Improve Undergraduate Biology Training in India?

How can one harness the collective intellectual resources and facilities in India to provide high quality education in the life sciences for college students?

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Swati Patankar | 29 MAR 2011 | filed under : Education

Scientist and Teacher

When I am asked where I work and reply “IIT Bombay” the most common question that follows is “What do you teach?”.  To this I inevitably reply “Molecular biology and microbiology, but my lab does research on malaria”.
 

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Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed | 07 MAR 2011 | filed under : Jobs

Cutting-edge Technology Platforms in India

C-CAMP is a new center in Bangalore that provides access to cutting-edge technologies in the life sciences.  Learn what it has to offer..

 

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