NIST e-NEWS(Vol 63, JUL 15, 2009) Special Edition

Young Scientist Awardees
Laurels
Dr. Motahar Reza, Asst. Professor, National Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur was awarded
with the most prestigious award of the state, the Samanta Chandra Shekhar Orissa Young Scientist
Award - 2006, for his significant and commendable contribution in the field of Physical Sciences. Hon’ble
Minister for Planning & Co-ordination, Science and Technology, Shri Duryodhan Majhi graced the occasion
being the Chief Guest and conferred the awards wherein 4 science writers and 2 young scientists were
awarded.
Ms. Anita Pati, Faculty, Dept. of Chemistry, received the ‘Prof. R. C. Tripathy Young Scientist Award’
from the Orissa Chemical Society in recognition of her research work carried out in the field of “Synthesis
of Organic Compounds containing Pharmacologically Active heterocyclic Moieties”. She was
felicitated with a cash prize of Rs. 1000/- and a certificate in the recently concluded 22nd Annual Conference
of Orissa Chemical Society held at North Orissa University, Baripada.
Best Thesis Award
Dr. B. Pavan Kumar, Faculty, Dept. of Management Studies, has been awarded with the Prof. Durganand
Sinha Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award among all Ph.D. theses in the year 2008 in the field of management
in the entire country. Only top five of Ph.D. theses from leading institutes of the country including IITs and
IIMs were short listed for presentation. The gold medal and certificate were presented to Dr. B. Pavan
Kumar in the XVIII Annual Convention of the National Academy of Psychology (India), held at IIT,
Guwahati. The award was given by the National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), the apex body of
psychological research in India.
POSCO Asia Fellowship to NIST Student
Aditi Gidra, Student, B. Tech. 6th Sem. received the POSCO Asia Fellowship provided by the POSCO
TJ Park Foundation, Korea on 24th December, 2008. It was handed over by Dr. Omakarnath Mohanty,
Vice Chancellor, BPUT, Mr. Soumya R. Behera, HR, POSCO India, and other eminent personalities on
24th December 2008 at the BPUT office in Bhubaneswar.
Fellowship to NIST Faculty
Mr. Trupti Ranjan Lenka, Faculty, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering got the Fellowship
to attend the 22nd IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design 2009 and 8th International
Conference on Embedded Systems at Taj Palace, New Delhi from 5th – 9th January 2009 and he was
the only academician getting this fellowship from the entire state of Orissa.
Mr. Bhaskar Bandyopadhyay, Faculty, Department of Management & Humanities has been selected
for Participation in the Strategic Marketing Management (SMM) Program organized by the Stanford
University Graduate School of Business, California, USA between August 10- 20, 2008. Mr.
Bandyopadhyay has been selected for the programme through a scale of 5 parameters of typical student
class profile consisting of Management Function, Industries Represented, Geographic Origin, Education,
Age Distribution.
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