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RONO HILLS, 24 Jun:<\/strong> More than 70 master’s and research students of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU), the NERIST and the CSIR-NEIST’s Itanagar branch lab participated in a symposium themed ‘Chemical education in self-reliance: A global perspective’, here on Thursday.<\/p>\n The programme, which was organised by RGU’s chemistry department in collaboration with Jorhat (Assam)-based CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology (CSIR-NEIST) and London-based Royal Society of Chemistry, was aimed at “raising awareness among the master’s and research students of various institutes of Arunachal Pradesh towards self-reliance in chemical education from a global perspective,” the university informed in a release.<\/p>\n Addressing the inaugural session, RGU Vice Chancellor Prof Saket Kushwaha encouraged the participants to “take up the challenge to put Arunachal Pradesh on the global map for chemical education.”<\/p>\n He also urged the participants to “work with a view to establishing a long-term and sustainable goal for achieving quality and excellence in chemical education and innovation in research in India.”<\/p>\n RGU Pro-VC Prof Amitava Mitra emphasised that the state needs to focus on science education for self-reliance.<\/p>\n Prof T Govindaraju from Bengaluru-based Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research delivered a lecture on molecular theranostics, while RGU Chemistry HoD Dr Rajesh Chakrabarty highlighted the steps taken by RGU for promotion of chemical education in Arunachal.<\/p>\n Eminent researchers and young scientists from RGU, the NERIST and the CSIR-NEIST branch lab delivered lectures. Young research scholars Nirankush Borah (CSIR-NEIST), Amar Jyoti Bhuyan (RGU) and Jinku Borah (RGU) received the best oral presenters’ prize in the symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RONO HILLS, 24 Jun: More than 70 master’s and research students of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU), the NERIST and the CSIR-NEIST’s Itanagar branch lab participated in a symposium themed ‘Chemical education in self-reliance: A global perspective’, here on Thursday. The programme, which was organised by RGU’s chemistry department in collaboration with Jorhat (Assam)-based CSIR-North East […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}