L.S.Shashidhara | 07 OCT 2009 | filed under : Education

Integrating research with undergraduate teaching : a personal recount
L.S. SHASHIDHARAfrom IISER Pune gives his personal recount "Purely from the academic point of view, I have always been inclined to spend more and more time in undergraduate teaching"..

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Maithili Jog | 07 OCT 2009 | filed under : Education

The ‘Science Katta’ at Pune: catching them young
It’s Tuesday of any week. It is about five minutes to six in the evening at the Department of Biotechnology at Abasaheb Garware College in Pune. All the classes are over by now. Most students have dispersed calling it a day.

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Obaid Siddiqi | 10 OCT 2009 | filed under : Education

The Kerala Meeting

The young investigator meeting in Kerala, last February, organized by Ronald Vale (UCSF), Sandhya Kaushika (NCBS), and Mukund Thattai (NCBS) was an unusual event. The idea behind the meeting was to bring together a group of young Indian biologists in USA and Europe....

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S. C. Lakhotia | 31 MAR 2010 | filed under: Education

Hype and the Reality of Biotechnology

Biotechnology has become a very common, but also most mis-understood, term due to the hype created about its potential so that the sky seems to be the limit for the hopes and visions generated by biotechnology.

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V. Ramakrishnan | MAY 17 2010 | filed under: Education

From Chidambaram to Cambridge:  A life in science

Since the Chemistry prize had been awarded for biological work the previous year, I was confident that it would not be awarded for the ribosome that year.

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K. Guruswamy | 17 JUN 2010 | filed under: Education

The Exciting Science Group, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

K. Guruswamy introducing the "Exciting Science Group", which aims to connect scientists with high school students and teachers in Pune.

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Urmi S. Bajpai | 21 Jun 2010 | filed under: Education

Research Experiences for College Students

Acquiring knowledge from text books and the teachers has been the mainstay of the undergraduate education in India. But doing things on your own builds scientific temperament and innovative thinking.

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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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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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