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. ...

News about Dr. Siddhesh Kamat and group's work discovering a new function of the gene ABHD12, to show linkages between oxidative stress and neurological disorders featured in India Science Wire, Biotech Times, Down to Earth, and Hindu Business Line. January 23, 2019. ...

IISER Pune featured for the first time in the Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings. Zee Business reported. January 17, 21019. ...

An article in Times of India mentioned Dr. Sudha Rajamani and her group's research on chemical origins of life on earth, in the context of a new masters course in Astrobiology that SP Pune University is starting. January 15, 2019. ...

[caption id="attachment_1567" align="alignleft" width="610"] G.V. Pavan Kumar (Photo Credit: Keerthi Raj, B.S.)[/caption] A landmark paper in Nano Letters, senior membership of the Optical Society (OSA), and DST’s Swarnajayanti Fellowship: the year 2018 turned out to be remarkable for Dr. G.V. Pa...

IISER Pune is a part of an International Science Council funded project Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding, which is working towards generating awareness about Climate Change by incorporating climate-related examples in teaching core curric...

A series of workshops on Science Administration & Management and Science Journalism were conducted by CoESME IISER Pune for women professionals. Deccan Herald wrote an article documenting the workshops and experiences of some participants. December 20, 2018. ...

Dr. Sutirth Dey and group's work on building a model for how bacterial colonies evolve was reported by The Hindu. December 15, 2018. ...

Science Activity Centre at IISER Pune hosted a science exhibition that was the culmination of a state-wide model making competition conducted by Agastya International Foundation. Sakal Times and Sakal reported. December 15, 2018. ...

Dr. Ramana Athreya's discovery of a new bird in Arunachal Pradesh, followed by his efforts to get the local Bugun community involved in conservation through ecotourism was reported by the Wire and the international conservation magazine Mongabay (also see related article). December 2018. ...