In Which I Talk (Really, Really Quickly) About Life By Bruhad Dave It’s the stuff of existential nightmares. Why is this stuff happening in my life? What is happening in my life? What exactly is life in the first place? That last one is among the first questions that a basic biology textbook wou...

Dr Siddhesh Kamat, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune and Wellcome-DBT IA Fellow, has been selected for the UAA-ICT Distinguished Alumnus Award in the Young Achiever category for the year 2019. Instituted by the UDCT Alumni Association (UAA), this award recognises alumni of the Institut...

IISER Pune has been ranked 23 in the overall category of the 2019 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings. Initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2015, this is the fourth year of NIRF's India Rankings.   NIRF uses 5 parameters to rank institutions...

IISER Pune ranked 23rd in the overall institutes category in NIRF 2019 rankings, published in April. Indian Express reported. April 8, 2019 ...

Dr. Shouvik Datta (Physics) and Dr. Pinaki Talukdar (Chemistry) have been selected for the Distinguished Investigator Award (DIA) given by Department of Science and Technology (DST)’s Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). This one-time career award recognises Principal Investigators of S...

IISER Pune featured in The Indian Wire's list of top institutions in India to study mathematics at the post-graduate level. March 28, 2019. ...

MHRD supported National Resource Centre at IISER Pune produced a MOOC course on Climate Change for undergraduate teachers. The course is a part of series of courses being produced by various MHRD centres as refresher courses for college teachers. Pune Mirror reported. March 25, 2019. ...

Dr. Arvind Natu has been nominated to be the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IISER Kolkata; the nomination was made by the President of India in his capacity as the Visitor for IISER Kolkata, and the appointment is for a period of three years. As the apex decision-making body appointed b...

IISER Pune's inputs in helping a city girls' school set up a mathematics laboratory to make the subject accessible and fun, was reported by Pune Mirror. March 18, 2019. ...

Two IISER Pune members, Dr. Ulfat Baig and Dr. Gunjan Verma, have been selected for 2018 AWSAR Awards given by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. “Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR)” is a DST initiative with an aim to disseminate Indian resear...

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur has appointed Prof A Raghuram as a Distinguished Honorary Professor for a period of three years. Raghuram studies the special values of L-functions. The idea of an L-function is ubiquitous in modern number theory. The basic theorems and con...

Indian Express reported on IISER Pune's plans of revising its BS-MS curriculum. March 5, 2019. ...

National Science Day is celebrated in India every year on February 28, to mark the discovery of Raman Effect by Sir. C. V. Raman. It is a day to inspire students to learn scientific ideas and to spread scientific temper in society. On the occasion of National Science Day 2019, Smt. Indrani Balan ...

Dr Anup Biswas has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the journal Annals of Applied Probability for the period 2019-2021. Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Annals of Applied Probability is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers with important contributions to the...

Dr S G Srivatsan, Associate Professor in Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been selected for the 2019 CDRI Awards for Excellence in Drug Research in the Chemical Sciences category. He has been selected for this award along with Dr T Govind Raju, Associate Professor, JNCASR, Bengaluru. Instituted by th...

News about a potential knowledge and biotechnology clusters being set up in Pune, with participation of IISER Pune was reported by Swarajya and Indian Express. February 5, 2019. ...

IISER Pune is now a member of the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium). This places IISER Pune in the league of 20 of the major mouse genetics centres worldwide and adds tremendous value to IISER Pune's research capabilities. IMPC was set up about 10 years back to build on the effort...

Prof. Satish Ogale has been awarded the Raja Ramanna Fellowship of the DAE for Senior Scientists. Prof. Ogale works in the area of clean energy. Instituted in 2000, this fellowship from the Department of Atomic Energy engages with scientists and technologists involved in developing critical techn...

Dr. Pushkar Sohoni's work on history of the monuments and forts of the Nizamshahs of Ahmednagar featured on the website Live History India. February 2019. ...

Dr. Deepak Barua and his team's study showing that mango trees in the city are more tolerant to high temperature whereas teak trees are most vulnerable was reported by Pune Mirror. January 28, 2019. ...