Kurukshetra University to confer Rajib Goyal Prize to four young scientists
Professor Som Nath Sachdeva, Kurukshetra University vice-chancellor and chairman of the organising committee of the Rajib Goyal Prize, announced the name.
Kurukshetra University has announced the names of four scientists in the country for the Rajib Goyal Prize. Kurukshetra University will award, four scientists, Rajneesh Mishra of IIT Indore (applied sciences), KM Sureshan of IISER Thiruvananthapuram (chemical sciences), Rajeev Varshney of ICRISAT Hyderabad (life sciences), and Suman Chakraborty of IIT Kharagpur (physical sciences), have been selected for the honor for outstanding work in their respective fields.
Professor Som Nath Sachdeva, Kurukshetra University vice-chancellor and chairman of the organising committee of the Rajib Goyal Prize, announced the name.
“Goyal Prize was instituted in 1992 by Ram S Goyal, an NRI settled in the US, and so far over 100 eminent scientists have been honoured by the prizes,” said Prof Sanjiv Arora, convener of the organising committee.
While applauding the young scientists who are aged below 45 years, the donor's nominee and co-chairman of the organising committee, Prof SP Singh said Rajneesh Mishra has opened up new avenues for tuning the optoelectronic behavior of materials for various biomedical applications, while Sureshan has made great contributions in areas of organic and material chemistry for wider industrial applications.
Similarly, Rajeev Varshney has done pioneering work in genome sequencing which resulted in the development of a drought-tolerant variety of PUSA chickpea in India; and Suman Chakraborty’s work in the area of microfluidics, nanofluidics and hydrophobic surfaces has found wide applications in many medical devices, added Singh.
The award ceremony will soon be organised at Kurukshetra University.
Meanwhile, a Kurukshetra University announced that the Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has enrolled into a three-month online basic certificate course in Japanese culture and language.
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