AQAR 2005-2006 - Madras Christian College

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AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIANNUAL QUALITY ASSURANCE REPORT2005-2006The focus area for quality enhancement at Madras Christian College for the academicyear 2005-06 was on industry-institution interface, encouraging extracurricular andextramural activities of students, introducing innovative and job orientedprogrammes. A plan of action was evolved and strategies were drawn based onfeedback from stakeholders and taking into consideration the valuable suggestionsgiven by the NAAC peer team during the accreditation process. The action taken onthe above areas are briefly presented herewith.Bell Tower1

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIPart APlan of Action:Industry-institution interface to ensure employability ofstudents and thus contribute to national developmentOutcome:Funding agencies were identified and project proposals were submitted to nationaland international agencies such as University Grants Commission, Department ofScience and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Environment andForests and United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia. During the year2005-06, there has been a steady increase in the consultancy services offered toindustries, foreign universities and colleges, Government and non-governmentalorganizations, thereby providing internships and training to students.Plan of Action:Encourage extracurricular and extramural activities ofstudents to give a comprehensive educational experienceand thus improve global competencies among them.Outcome:Sports: Our students represented the University of Madras in various sports activitiesand brought laurels in games such as Volley Ball, Cricket, Ball-Badminton, Athletics,Kho-Kho, etc. Students were also actively involved in both national and internationalyouth festivals.Cultural: The College Union Society and all the halls conducted a number of culturalprogrammes.Co-curricular Activities: The Department Associations spearheaded a number ofstudent activities. The Student Christian Movement involved students in Christianactivities and outreach programmes. NSS and NCC have been very active.Plan of Action:Introduce innovative and job oriented programmes.Outcome:Four new programmes were started in this academic year, of which three were at theUG level (Social Work, Journalism, Geography, Tourism & Travel Management) andone at the PG level (Applied Microbiology).2

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIPart B1. Activities reflecting the goals and objectives of the institution:Academic excellence, social relevance and spiritual vitality are the importantelements of the educational experience offered at Madras Christian College. Variousactivities organized during the academic year 2005-06 reflect how the college isanchored to its mission and how the goals are set to fulfill them.a. Academic Excellence:• Apart from innovations in the focus area of teaching and learning, research andconsultancy were given adequate emphasis during this academic year.• Opportunities for international student exchange programmes enabled students toearn credits from educational institutions abroad and transfer the same to MCCfor award of degree.• International programmes were organized by the college to enable students andfaculty from other universities to come to MCC for study and/or to do research.• Innovation in the curriculum with the introduction of the Choice Based CreditSystem enabled students to benefit from the Interdisciplinary and General Coursesthat give a broader knowledge base apart from that given by their major course.They also have the freedom to choose the courses.• Continuous Assessment Tests and the innovative methods like seminars,assignments, and power point presentation helped students to perform better intheir overall educational pursuits.• Value based learning and Personality Development Programmes offered for theunder graduate students provided an overall development for students andenhanced their employability.b. Social Relevance:• The National Service Scheme of the College organized various activities likeblood donation camp, cleaning of campus, issue of Drivers’ Learning License forstaff and students by the Tambaram RTO etc.3

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• Service-Learning Programme is introduced to ensure that academic learning islinked to social needs.• Departments have carried out academics along with Community Developmentprogrammes through the extension units of the college.• Incorporating community development activities as part of the degree programunder the Choice Based Credit System has motivated students to engage incommunity services.c. Spiritual Vitality:• Retreats organized at the beginning of the academic year for the faculty andstudents have helped the members of the college community to focus theirattention on realizing the goals and objectives of the college.• Staff Study Circle organized monthly meetings that helped faculty to engage ininterfaith dialogue and develop religious tolerance. The study circle also gave anopportunity to reflect on the relevance of Christian values in the field of highereducation.• Staff Student Retreat conducted annually aims at generating constructive nonacademicinteractions between staff and students.• The Christian ethos of the College was reflected in the various activities of theStudent Christian Movement. Members of this unit organized programmes to trainthe student community in Christian values and extended their activities tocommunity development in the Tambaram neighbourhood2. New academic programmes initiated by the college (UG & PG):• Bachelor’s programme in Social Work (BSW) was started in the self-inancedstream during the current academic year. Students evinced great interest in thiscourse due to the prospects of pursuing Masters Programme in Social Work(MSW) which is offered in both the aided and the self-financed Stream.• Bachelor’s programme in Journalism is introduced from this academic year. ThePG Diploma course in Journalism offered by MCC School of ContinuingEducation has been very successful over the years and the same interest andenthusiasm are shown by students for the new degree programme.4

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• Bachelor’s programme in Geography, Tourism & Travel Management is anotherinnovative course offered from the current academic year in SFS. This highlysought after course has attracted a large number of students due to the jobopportunities available in the Travel and Tourism Industry.• Master’s programme in Applied Microbiology in SFS was introduced during thisacademic year. The course has attracted a large number of students owing toemployability and research prospects of the course.3. Innovations in curricular design and transaction:A number of innovations were incorporated in the curriculum during the currentacademic year. The Academic Council meetings held on 10 June 2005 and 05 April2006 approved these suggestions.• The Department of English made major changes in the title and content of variouscourses offered and new textbooks were prescribed for study and reference.Reflecting the commitment of the college community to the protection of theenvironment and sustainable livelihood, a new paper entitled ‘Ecoliterature’ wasintroduced this year.• The Department of Tamil brought in relevant changes in the course content underPart-I Tamil offered to students of B.A./B.Sc./B.Com/BCA/BBA under theChoice Based Credit System.• The Department of Commerce made major changes in the curriculum and alsointroduced a new course on ‘Brand Management’. SPSS has become an integralpart of the course in Computer Programming for PG students. The course on‘Auditing and Entrepreneurial Development’ was restructured with a new coursecontent.• The Department of Physics introduced many innovative courses. Forundergraduate students ‘Energy Physics’ is offered as an elective course and‘Astrophysics’ is offered as an interdisciplinary course. A course on ‘NuclearReactor Physics’ is offered to postgraduate students in addition to the courses onSolid State Physics and Nuclear Physics which will enhance the quality of theprogram.5

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• The Department of Botany decided to change the name of the PG degreeprogramme from ‘Botany’ to ‘Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology’ with effectfrom the academic year 2006-07. This change is accompanied by restructuring ofthe course content that include introduction of more elective courses.• The Department of Computer Science offered two optional allied courses to UGstudents of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Introduction to Programming isoffered in the III semester, and Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structureare offered in the IV semester.• The Department of Physics in the Self Financed Stream brought in changes in thecourse content, especially in the electronics related papers. Restructuring wasdone in two papers including Electronic Circuits and Communication and Digitaland Analog Circuits. Some of the new papers introduced in the current academicyear include Microprocessors and its applications and a Computer Training –Programming in C. These changes were made keeping in mind the revision in thesyllabus of the Higher Secondary school curriculum.• The Department of Communication introduced new courses in Travel Journalism,Ad-Photography, Event Management, Basic Design and Layout, Web Publishingand Film Appreciation and Criticism. There was a thorough revision of thecontent of the paper with the inclusion of new topics like Introduction toCommunication, Electronic Media, Communication Skills, Audio-visualProduction–I and II, Online Journalism, Communication Research Methodology,Critical Media Studies, Advertising Photography and Introduction to Film Studies.• The Department of Chemistry introduced Service-Learning programmes inRestoration of Pond Eco-system and Food Adulteration. Service-learning is aprocess by which the students apply their classroom learning to the needs of thecommunity and through reflection learn more concepts from real life situations.• The UGC Sponsored Career Oriented Programmes that were approved in theAcademic Council in April 2005 were implemented this academic year in theAided Stream. ‘Professional Pharmaceutical Salesmanship’ offered by theDepartment of Chemistry, ‘Medicinal Plant and Tissue Culture’ offered by theDepartment of Botany and ‘Vermiculture’ offered by the Department of Zoologycommenced from the academic year 2005-06.6

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI4. Inter-disciplinary programmes / courses started:A number of innovative interdisciplinary courses/programmes that were introducedover the years were offered in the current academic year under the Choice BasedCredit System as well. The newly introduced Bachelor’s degree course in Geography,Tourism & Travel Management combine different disciplines making the programmeinterdisciplinary in nature.DisciplineEnglishTamilHistoryPolitical ScienceEconomicsPhilosophyCommerceMathematicsStatisticsPhysicsChemistryPlant Biology and Plant BiotechnologyZoologyBusiness AdministrationCourses offeredEcoliterature, Literature & Music,English for CareersLiterature & PsychologyIndian Culture, Civil Services inIndia, EntrepreneurshipDevelopmentPolitical Economy of India,Political Sociology, Public PolicyHealth EconomicsIntroduction to Christian TheologyTourism Marketing, AccountingPackage –Tally, BusinessEconomics, Advertising Theory &Practice, Human ResourceManagement, Web ApplicationMathematics for CompetitiveExamsActuarial StatisticsAstrophysics, BiophysicsEnvironmental Chemistry,Biological ChemistryBiodiversity, Ethnobotany, Plantsin International affairs, Plant-Animal InteractionWildlife ManagementBusiness Economics7

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIComputer ApplicationMedia StudiesMicrobiologyPhysical EducationMultimedia SystemsMedia Management, PresentationSkills, Public RelationsFloricultureResearch Methods & ReportWriting in Physical Education5. Examination reforms implemented:Candidates are able to get their results published online since 2003. In addition, thefollowing recommendations were made by the Examinations Committee in February2005 and accepted by the Academic Council in November 2005:• The difference between the I and II valuations in the End of SemesterExaminations is now raised to 15% from the existing 10% for purposes ofreconciliation of the two valuations in the award of marks in the relevant answerpaper.• The average of the mark awarded in the third valuation and the mark (in the I andII valuations) nearest to the third valuation mark is to be taken as the final awardof mark in the relevant paper instead of the existing method of taking the thirdvaluation as the final mark.Computerization of administration and the process of admissions andexamination results, issue of certificates:• Student data is computerized for easy and quick access to all data pertaining tostudents in the Admissions office, Records office and Examinations office.• Parents are intimated about the student’s progress and attendance on a regularbasis and they can meet the Deans to clarify their queries.• The Student Profile is computerized so as to get details without delay.6. Candidates qualified for NET/SLET/GATE etc:As on date the college does not have a record of these data. However, many studentsappear for these examinations and qualify.8

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI7. Initiative towards faculty development programmme:Identifying the potentials of the teaching faculty and giving them every opportunity toenhance them gets high priority in the educational philosophy of the College. Duringthe current academic year, members of the faculty participated in orientation andrefresher courses offered by various higher educational institutions and two facultymembers were selected under Faculty Improvement Programme offered by the UGCto pursue doctoral research.Faculty Improvement Program (FIP)• Juliana Mary Suganthy John, Department of Economics was selected for FIPunder the X Plan, to do her doctoral research during the year June 2005- 2007.• Miriam Samuel, Department of Social Work was selected for FIP under the XPlan, to do her doctoral research during the year June 2005-2007.Refresher Courses:• Mekala Rajan, Department of English, attended the UGC-sponsored ‘Need BasedRefresher Course on Earth and Environmental Science’ conducted by theAcademic Staff College, University of Madras, 09 to 29 September 2005.• K. Viswanatha, Department of Languages, attended the UGC-sponsored ‘Needbased Refresher Course on Earth and Environment Science’ conducted by theAcademic Staff College, University of Madras, 09 to 29 September, 2005.• S. Sudha, Department of Political Science, attended a Refresher Course inPolitical Science Conducted by UGC- Academic Staff College, University ofMadras, Chennai, 24 November to 14 December 2005.• A Duraisamy, Department of Economics completed a basic Refresher Course inComputers at Madurai Kamaraj University, 2006.• Spurgeon Nesapandian, Department of Philosophy, attended a Refresher courseon Earth and Environment Science, 08 to 29 September 2005.• E. John Suriya Kumar, Department of Commerce, Refresher Course in Commerceconducted by Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 13 September to 03October 20059

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• D. Prince Annadurai, Department of Social Work, participated in the Refreshercourse for College Teachers, on ‘Scholastic Guidance and Counseling’ sponsoredby UGC at the Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 11 to 31 March2006.• I. Joshua, Department of Statistics, participated in the UGC Sponsored RefresherCourse in Statistics, Academic Staff College, University of Madras, January toFebruary 2006.• D. Narasimhan, Department of Botany attended a Refresher Course in‘Environmental Science’ at the Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 16 May to 05June 2006.• C. Joyce Priyakumari, Department of Zoology attended a Refresher Course in‘Bioinformatics’ organized by UGC Academic Staff College, University ofMadras, 02 to 20 March 2006.Orientation Course:• N. Jeyaselvi, Department of English, attended an Orientation Course organized bythe Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 15 November to 12 December2005.• Adeline S, Department of Economics, participated in the Orientation Course inEconomics offered by the University of Madras, 2005.• Jacqueline Raja Bai, Department of Economics, participated in the OrientationCourse at Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 2005.• Merlin Juliet, Department of Economics completed an Orientation Course inEconomics offered by the University of Madras, 2006.• E. John Suriya Kumar, Department of Commerce, attended the OrientationCourse, conducted by University of Madras, 01 to 28 November 2005.• Miriam Kalpana Simon, Department of Statistics, participated in the OrientationCourse conducted by Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 15November to 12 December 2005.10

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• E. Joanna Kezia, Department of Statistics, participated in the Orientation Course,organized by the Academic Staff College, University of Madras, 15 November to12 December 2005.Other Faculty Development Programmes:• Eight members of the faculty - Dr. I. Kannan, Mr. D. Armstrong Doss, Mr. JojanJob, Dr. David Prabhakar, Mr. C. Livingstone, Ms. T. Shirmila, Dr. MekalaRajan, Dr. Thomas Rosy, and Ms. Feminna Sheeba attended a trainingprogramme in Human Resource Development at CLHRD, Mangalore, 04 to 13November 2005.• Thirty-six young faculty members of the college participated in a conference on‘Leadership and Future Challenges’ held at Scripture Union Centre, Kovalam, 16to 18 November 2005.• A conference for senior faculty members on ‘Mentoring and Leadership’ wasorganized at CReNIEO, Muttukadu, in which 41 senior faculty of the collegeparticipated. Prof. Sunny Tharappan of Aim Insights, HRD Group, Mangalorewas the resource person, 01 to 03 December 2005.• P. David Prabhakar, Department of Tamil, attended a Workshop on ‘Curriculumfor Under Graduate Tamil’ organized by Tamil Nadu State Council for HigherEducation, Chennai,16 and 17 September 2005.• R. Venkataramanujam and V. Chitra, Department of History, attended aWorkshop on ‘Oral History’, US Consulate, Chennai and Women’s ChristianCollege, Chennai, 09 January 2006.• A. Annadurai, Department of Economics, participated in the Regional Workshopon ‘Applied Statistics’ organized by the Department of Applied Research GRI,Gandhipur, 21 March 2006.• Charles Suresh David, Department of Commerce, attended a Workshop on‘Commerce Education in 21 st Century’ organized by the Tamil Nadu StateCouncil for Higher Education, 16 and 17 December 2005.• Sarprasatha Joe, Department of Commerce, attended a Workshop on ‘VirtualPresence’, conducted by College for Leadership and Human ResourcesDevelopment, (CLHRD), Mangalore, 27 May 2006.11

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• D. Narasimhan visited Queens’ University, Kingston, Canada, as part of theProject on ‘Policy Development to Support Agro Biodiversity in Hill Ecosystemsof North and South India: Formal and Informal Knowledge Systems, InstitutionalInterests and Sustainability’ funded by CIDA, administered by Shastri Indo –Canadian Institute, New Delhi, November 2005.• Miriam Samuel, Department of Social Work (i) was trained in a workshop on‘Mental Trauma Care’ organized by Saxion University and Mediant MentalHealth Centre, The Netherlands in collaboration with the Department of SocialWork, MCC, 16 to 20 January 2006; (ii) participated in a workshop on ‘Analysisin Qualitative Research’ held at Stella Maris College, Chennai, 18 to 22 April2006; (iii) participated in Proposal Development Workshop organized by W.H.Oon Eco-Bio-Social Research on Dengue in Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, 09 to 12May 2006.• Prince Annadurai, Department of Social Work Visited Fudan University,Shanghai, China for a six month training programme to learn the functions of theInternational Office and Students’ Counseling Centre through UBCHEA, 2006.• Prince Solomon Devadass, Department of Social Work (i) participated in theWorkshop on ‘Neuro Linguistic Programming in Emotional Intelligence’,organized by the AUI Consultants, Mysore, May 2006; (ii) participated in theWorkshop on ‘Christian Teachers Commitment’, organized by the ACFF,Bangalore, May 2006; (iii) participated in the Workshop on Christian Leadership,organized by the Haggai Institute, Chennai, May 2006.• T. Robinson, Department of Mathematics, under the DST-JSPS visited theInstitute of Disability Sciences, University of Tsukaba, Japan, May to July 2005.• Adolf Stephen, Department of Mathematics was visiting Senior lecturer in theSchool of Mathematical Sciences, University Sains – Malaysia.• K.G. Subramanian, Department of Mathematics made an academic visit toInstitute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam, 22 to 29 October 2005.• Marthal Thanga Packiam and Elizabeth Sangeetha T., Department of Statistics,attended a one day National Workshop on ‘Stochastic Modeling in system12

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIEngineering’ (CSIR Sponsored), organized by the Department of Mathematics,Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), Coimbatore, 10 March 2006.• R. Daniel and S. Janet Priscilla, Department of Physics, attended a three dayworkshop on ‘ Quantum Physics through Matlab’ organized by IndianAssociation of Physics Teachers and Department of Physics, Sri RamakrishnaMission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, 19 to 21 December2005.• R. Wilfred Sugumar, Department of Chemistry, attended a National Symposiumon ‘Pedagogy of Service-Learning’, Stella Maris College, Chennai, 23 and 24September 2005.• T. Jaba Priya, Department of Chemistry (i) participated in the National Workshopon ‘Advanced Techniques for Corrosion Studies’, organised by NationalCorrosion Council of India, Karaikudi and Alagappa University, Karaikudi,January 2006; (ii) participated in the Workshop on Service-Learning Programme,organized by Madras Christian College, February 2006.8. Total number of Conferences/Seminars/ Workshops Conducted (Regional,National and International Level):Endowment Lectures• Dr. R. Gopalan Endowment Lecture was delivered by Dr. Gary W. Vanloon,Professor, Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Canada, on the topic‘Energy and Environment’, November 2005.• Dr. R. Gopalan Endowment Lecture was delivered by Dr. T. Pratheep, Professor,Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras on the topic ‘Faraday’s Divided Metals’,February 2006.• Dr. S. V. Ananthakrishnan Endowment Lecture was delivered by Dr. N.Chandrakumar, Professor, RSIC, IIT Madras, on the topic ‘NMR Spectroscopy:Theory and Applications’, February 2006.• Dr. Chandran D. S. Devenesan Endowment Lecture delivered by Mr. K. VijayaRama Rao (an alumnus) former CBI Director, Government of India, on the topic‘Integrity in Public Service’, February 2006.13

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• Dr. M. Abel Endowment Lecture was delivered by Dr. A. Shanmugam, formerProfessor and Head, Department of Political Science, Annamalai University onthe topic ‘Is a Non-killing Society Possible?’, March 2006.• Raja Chelliah’s Felicitation Ceremony, conducted by the Department ofEconomics, 2006.• Dr. Gift Siromoney Endowment Lecture was delivered by Dr. M. Gururajan,Professor and Head, Department of Computer Applications, Kumaraguru Collegeof Technology, Coimbatore, on the topic ‘Two Valued Processes and TheirApplications’, March 2006.International Level• ‘Human Rights and Water’: International Study Conference organized by theDepartment of Social Work, Madras Christian College. There were about 300participants from various Schools of Social Work from all over the country andabroad and also representatives from international agencies like UNICEF andDHAN foundation, 9 to 12 October 2005.• ‘Bonded Labour; an Illusion or Reality’: Conference organized by the Departmentof Social Work, Madras Christian College in collaboration with InternationalJustice Mission. The conference was inaugurated by Justice P.N. Bhagwati,former Chief Justice of India, 12 December 2005.• ‘Mental Trauma Care’: Five day workshop organized by the Department of SocialWork, Madras Christian College in association with Mediant Mental HealthInstitution, Enschede, The Netherlands, January 2006.National Level• Curriculum Development in Political Science: Workshop organized by theDepartment of Political Science, Madras Christian College and sponsored by theUnited Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA), December2005.• ‘Curriculum in Economics and Industry Needs: An Exploration withConvergence’: workshop conducted by the Department of Economics, MadrasChristian College, February 2006.14

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• ‘Techwoods 2005’: Symposium conducted by the Department of ComputerScience (SFS), Madras Christian College to provide college students anopportunity to interact with students from other Universities and to provide aplatform to sharpen their problem-solving, programming and team work skills,September 2005.• TQM in Higher Education: Conference organized by the Department ofCommerce (SFS), September 2005.• HR Strategist for the Competitive Edge: Organized by the Department of SocialWork (SFS), Madras Christian College for Industry-student interaction on currenttrends and concepts in Human Resource Management, 2005.Regional Level• Quality Improvement and Sustenance in Higher Education: Regional Conferenceorganized by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Madras Christian College,sponsored by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) andUnited Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA), 20 and 21February 2006.• Counselling and its Process: Workshop for Social Work students from citycolleges. Mr. Ravi Samuel, H.R.D. Consultant, Dr. Sujatha Rita, Counsellor andMr. Kotteswara Rao, Counsellor - SCARF, India were the resource persons at thisworkshop held on 06 August 2005.• AIDS Awareness Program for College Students: Organized by the Department ofSocial Work, Madras Christian College, in collaboration with KancheepuramCollectorate. Nearly 800 students from various city colleges participated in thisprogram, January 2006.• Team Building: Workshop conducted by the Department of Social Work for thestaff of Compassion Project (Integrated Child Development Project), March 2006.• Istoria-2006: An intercollegiate competition organized by the Department ofHistory, February 2006.• Mathematics Question Bank Preparation: Workshop funded by United Board forChristian Higher Education in Asia was organized by the Department ofMathematics, Madras Christian College, 08 December 2005.15

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• Remedial Course for Academically Weaker Students of I year UndergraduateStudents: Organized by the Department of Mathematics, Madras ChristianCollege, under the UGC X Plan Program, November–December 2005.• Problem Solving for X Std students: Workshop organized by the Department ofMathematics, Madras Christian College, for the students of MCC RSL School,Chennai under the UGC X Plan Programme, February 2006.• Physics Exhibition for School Students: Organized by the Physics Society,Madras Christian College, on the occasion of the World Year of Physics. Around2000 students visited and enjoyed the exhibits and the presentations, August2005.• Workshop for Plus Two Physics: organized by the Department of Physics, MadrasChristian College, to acquaint the teachers with the newly introduced syllabus andtextbook, July 2005.• ‘Effervescence’: Annual Chemistry Exhibition and Quiz Competition for schoolstudents, organized by the Department of Chemistry, Madras Christian College,August 2005.• Practical Training to PG teachers of Corporation Schools: Workshop organized bythe Department of Chemistry, Madras Christian College and sponsored byDepartment of Education, Government of Tamil Nadu, November 2005.• Workshop for the Visually Challenged: Conducted periodically by theDepartment of Chemistry, Madras Christian College, to encourage the visuallychallenged students to study Chemistry by carrying out simple experiments,January 2006.• Training Program for Higher Secondary School Teachers of Chennai Corporation:A two-day training programme was organized by the Department of Botany,Madras Christian College, December 2005.• ‘Capparis Festival’: An inter-collegiate competition and ‘K. R. VenkatasubbanInter-collegiate Oratorical Competitions’ were organized by the Department ofBotany, Madras Christian College, February 2006.16

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• Value Education through Tamil Literature: Workshop organized by Dr. MosesMichael Faraday, Department of Tamil, Madras Christian College, for TamilTeachers of SBOA Schools, Chennai, June 2005.• Communication and Presentation skills: Workshop organized by the Departmentof Commerce, December 2005.• ‘Training Program in NET and C++’: Organized by the Department of ComputerScience (SFS), Madras Christian College, in association with Indicom Softwareand Services, Chennai for the faculty members of various colleges in Chennai,July 2005.• ‘Insignia 2005’: The Inter-collegiate Competition organized by the Department ofCommerce (SFS), Madras Christian College where about 100 participants fromcity colleges participated, 22 September 2005.• Entrepreneurship Development: Lecture by Dr. R. Natarajan, former Director ofIndustry & Commerce, organized by the Department of Commerce (SFS),February 2006.• ‘Darpan 05’, Photo cum Art Exhibition: Organized by the Department of VisualCommunication, Madras Christian College, with a special feature on ‘Campusextraordinaire’, August 2005.• ‘Aathmann 05’, Inter-collegiate event: Organized by the Department of VisualCommunication, Madras Christian College, September 2005.• ‘Mehathos 06’: Inter-school competition in Physics and a video show onproperties of matter, nuclear physics, electricity and magnetism and astrophysicsorganized by the Department of Physics (SFS), Madras Christian College,February 2006.• The Role of Youth in National Development: Organized by the Department ofSocial Work (SFS), Madras Christian College. First year MSW and BSW studentsvisited the Schools in and around Tambaram and conducted awarenessprogramme, 2005.• Skill Development Workshop: Organized by the Department of Social Work(SFS), Madras Christian College for the I year MSW students to gain skills inmime, puppetry, street theatre and role play, August 2005.17

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIScience, Madras Christian College and sponsored by the Institute of Defence andStrategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2005.• ‘Socio-Political and Economic Status of Irulas at Adhanur Tribal Village,Kanchipuram District’: Field study undertaken by the Department of PoliticalScience, Madras Christian College and sponsored by UGC, January 2006.• ‘An Analysis on Three Sectoral Balances in India over a period twenty yearsbetween 1980-81 and 2000-2001’: One year research project undertaken byMerlin Isaac, Department of Economics, under the Young Faculty Research Grantof MCC, 2005.• ‘Socio-Economic Conditions of Women Headed Households in Rural areas’:Project undertaken by A. Annadurai, Department of Economics, funded by Dr.Malcolm Adiseshiah & Elizabeth Memorial Trust, Chennai, 2005.• ‘An Estimate of Economic Valuation of Environmental Degradation’: A minorresearch project sanctioned by University Grants Commission, Hyderabad byCharles Suresh David, Department of Commerce, 2006.• ‘Materials Science’: Project undertaken by Department of Chemistry, MadrasChristian College and sponsored by DST-FIST, 2005 to 2010.• ‘Studies on the Structure Activity Relationship of Aerogel Derived AluminaSupported Chromia Catalyst’: Project is led by K. Mohandoss, Department ofChemistry and sponsored by TNSCST Student Project Scheme 2005–06 withresearch grant of Rs.5, 000. The one year project was completed in 2006.• ‘Micro- propagation of Medicinal Plant Desmodium gangeticm (L) DC’: Projectundertaken by G. Abraham Immanuel Ebenezer, Department of Botany,sponsored by Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, 2005.• Endemic and Threatened Trees of Western Ghats of Kanyakumari Distirct :Biology, Population and Mapping: D. Narasimhan, Department of Plant Biologyand Plant Biotechnology, Major UGC project with a grant of Rs 6, 09, 600, for aperiod of three years from May 2006 to May 2009.10. Patents generated, if any:No patents were generated during this academic year.19

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI11. New collaborative research programmes:Departments continue to maintain collaborative arrangements with variousorganizations and institutions for research programmes:Department of Economics, Madras Christian College has collaboration with MadrasInstitute of Development Studies (MIDS) for research.• Department of Commerce has signed an MOU with ICICI Bank to offer bankingcourse through an E-Learning Module.• Department of Commerce, Madras Christian College offers World Class BusinessEducation Programme funded by Ms. Chandrika Tandon, a distinguished alumnaof the department. The program has brought in radical changes in the quality ofeducation offered by the Department of Commerce.• Department of Social Work (aided stream) has signed MoU’s with MediantMental Health Institution, Enscheda, The Netherlands; Saxion University, TheNetherlands; Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada; and Chang JungChristian University, Taiwan, to facilitate teaching and research.• Department of Statistics, Madras Christian College has research collaborationswith Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Chennai, National Sample SurveyOrganization (NSSO) and the Departments of Statistics of other colleges andUniversity of Madras for the academic benefit of the students.• Department of Chemistry, Madras Christian College has signed a MoU withOrchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and conducted a training programmefor their employers under the programme ‘OLIVE’ in 2005.• Department of Chemistry, Madras Christian College has collaborativearrangements with leading research institutions like CLRI, CSIR, CECRI, NEERI,Asthagiri Research Institutions, IGCAR, Hindustan Photo Films-Ooty, to carryPostgraduate research projects. The program has benefited students to gainknowledge about the theoretical aspects of the sophisticated instruments and hasmotivated some students to continue their project work and pursue doctoralresearch in the same laboratory.• Department of Botany, Madras Christian College has collaborative researchprogramme with organizations like National Biodiversity Association (NBA),20

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIBotanical Survey of India (BSI), Tamil Nadu Forest Department, Chennai,Department of Environment - Tamil Nadu, Chennai, FRLHT, Bangalore, C.P.Ramaswamy Research Foundation (CPRRF), Chennai, Krishnamoorthy Instituteof Algology (KIA), Chennai.• Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College has industrial tie ups andcollaborative research with the corporate sector like Himalaya Drug Company,Bangalore, CavinKare Research Centre, Chennai, Sree Ramcides Chemicals Pvt.Ltd., Chennai and also with Liverpool Hope University, UK for researchcollaboration.• The M. Sc programme in Marine studies and Coastal Resource Management,Madras Christian College, has signed MoU’s with Silliman University,Philippines and Rathulangi University, Indonesia for research collaboration.12. Research grants received from various agencies:Departments have received grants for research and related infrastructural developmentfrom various agencies both national and international. Some of them are: Institute ofDefence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; SocialScience Reconnaissance Team, Disaster Research Centre, University of Delaware andEmergency Management and Planning Programme, University of North Texas;Malcolm Adiseshiah & Elizabeth Memorial Trust; University Grants Commission;DST-FIST; Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology and such.13. Details of research scholars (2005 – 2006):Name of thedepartmentRecognizedguidesM. Phil. Ph. D.StudentsenrolledRecognizedguidesCandidatespursuingPh. DHistory 6 4 3 -Political Science 6 1 4 8Public Administration 4 2 4 2Economics 4 3 2 121

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIPhilosophy 8 - 5 4Tamil 9 5 9 12English 10 12 8 6Mathematics 10 9 10 3Statistics 5 - 4 1Physics 7 9 6 -Chemistry 8 6 7 4Botany 6 3 3 3Zoology 9 4 8 -14. Citation index of faculty members and impact factor:Though faculty members have publications in peer reviewed journals, data on citationindex and impact factor is not available.15. Honors/ Awards to the Faculty:T. Robinson, Department of Mathematics received a National Award from thePresident of India, Dr. A. P. J Abdul Kalam, for providing cost effective technologyin the field of welfare of persons with disabilities, instituted by the Ministry of SocialJustice and Empowerment, Government of India, December 2005.R. W. Alexander Jesudasan, Department of Zoology, was elected Fellow of MadrasScience Foundation.Manu Thomas Mathai, Department of Zoology, has become (i) the Executive CouncilMember of the South Asian Council of Odontology affiliated to InternationalOdontological Foundation; (ii) Member of the Lady Doak College, Association,Madurai; and (iii) Member, Board of Directors, Christian Counseling Centre, Vellore.Miriam Samuel, Department of Social Work, (i) served as Member, ResearchAdvisory Committee, OXFAM supported research on ‘Understanding GenderMainstreaming Strategies by Selected NGO’s in Tsunami Rehabilitation in TamilNadu, India’, 2005 to 2006; (ii) University Nominee for Board of Studies in SocialWork, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 2005-06.22

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI16. Internal resources generated:The various departments of the college were able to generate resources through grantsand projects to procure new equipment for the laboratories and to enhance class roomteaching and learning. The alumni and well wishers of the concerned departmentshave magnanimously come forward with scholarships for students and also otheraccessories like LCD projectors, Computers, Printers, and Cameras to promote andencourage teaching and learning activities.17. Details of departments getting SAP, COSIST (ASSIST)/DST, FIST, etc:Funds for Improvement of Science and Technology• Department of Chemistry, Madras Christian College received Rs. 32 lakhs fromFIST towards the purchase of equipments and to expose students to Computeraided Chemistry, and Scientific Research methodology at UG and PG level. M.Phil Scholars from MK University, Bharathiar University and BharathidasanUniversity availed the instrumentation facility of the department for their researchprojects.• Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College received Rs. 19 lakhs fromFIST towards the purchase of equipment for Endocrinology and MolecularBiology special papers offered by the department. Both faculty and students areable to avail this facility.18. Community services and other support services:Sensitivity to the needs of the society, spontaneous involvement in the life of theneighborhood community and taking an uncompromising stand for the sociallyunderprivileged have been the hallmark of the college community right from itsinception. Some of the pioneering areas of social involvement were providingremediation to under-achievers in neighbouring schools (RSL) by the members of theNational Service Scheme; providing voluntary medical and paramedical assistance tovillagers by SCM and providing service to the visually challenged by the Students’Service for the Blind.23

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDuring the academic year 2005-06, the tradition of community service was carriedforward by students and faculty of the college. National Service Scheme, NCC,Student Christian Movement, Scrub Society, Student Service for the Blind andvarious other units of the college did yeoman service to the welfare of the campuscommunity and the neighborhood community. Some of the activities of the units aregiven below.NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS)Apart from regular activities like hospital services, tutorial classes, outreach services,seminars and workshops and manual labour, NSS unit carried out a Special CampingProgramme in February 2006 in the adopted village Kumizhi in KancheepuramDistrict. More than 100 volunteers attended this camp which was useful in exposingthese volunteers to rural realities. Some of the programmes rendered by our NSS unitwere:• One-day AIDS Awareness Programme conducted in association with AmericanConsulate, August 2005.• Blood Donation Programme organized with the Tamil Nadu Red Cross Society,Tamil Nadu Branch and Collected 215 units of blood, December 2005.• Inaugurated Red Ribbon Club which has trained nearly 200 volunteers in AIDSAwareness; this Club organized a Mass AIDS Awareness programme on 31stJanuary 2006 for about 1 lakh train passengers between Chengleput andTambaram.• NSS volunteers are taking Tutorial Classes and Survey in the adopted villageKokilamedu, near Mahabalipuram.• Free Eye Screening programme was conducted for all students and staff of theCollege in which about 2000 students and 150 staff members benefitted, February2006.• NSS Programme Officers attended the University Level programme Officers’Meeting held in September 2005 at the University of Madras.24

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAINATIONAL CADET CORPSInfantry• Cadet Senior Under-officer T. Vinoth Kumar, III B.Sc. Botany represented TamilNadu, Pondicherry and Andaman Directorate in Republic Day Camp 2005, NewDelhi, and was awarded the Cherry Blossom Award for Best Turn-out and wonGold Medal for Prime Minister’s rally.• Cadet Under-officer Asuthosh Singh, B.Sc. Physics (EC) was selected to attendIMA Attachment Camp & OTA-SSB Camp 2005 at Port Blair, 2005• Four cadets were selected from our College representing the Tamil NaduDirectorate in the All India NCC culturals held at New Delhi, December 2005.• Seven cadets were selected from our College representing the Tamil NaduDirectorate to attend Shivaji Trail Camp at Maharashtra, December 2005.Navy• Lt. Y. Gnanachandra Johnson attended the Combined Annual Training Camp inChennai, during May-June 2005 and also attended the Navsainik Training Campin Air Force Station, Tambaram, August 2005. He also participated in thePersonality Development Programme conducted by 1 (TN) NCC Navy at whichCommodore S. Sekar was the resource person, September 2005.Boys Wing• 24 cadets attended the Combined Annual Training Camp in Chennai held in May-June 2005 and MCC won the banner. L/c V. Arunkumar (II B.Sc. Stat) won thegold medal in the Best Cadet Competition and L/c Balasubramaniyam (II B.C.A)won the gold medal for the Best Parade Commander in the above camp.• Petty Officer Cadets A. Rajkumar, III B.A. (Eco.) and A. Jagannathan (III B.Com.EC) attended the National Integration Camp in Gujarat, August 2005.• Leading Cadets P.S.D Pradeep, II B.A. (Eco.) and C. Suresh Kannan, II B.Sc.Chemistry progressed up to IGC of the Republic Day Camp, Triuchirapalli.• L/c Adhitan, II B.A. Phil., NCI S. Kathiravan, II B.A. (Phil.) and NCI V.K.Karthik, II B.Sc. (Stat.) progressed upto IGC of Navsainik Camp, 2005.25

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• Leading Cadets A.L. Kiran Kumari, II B.A. His. And R. Sheeba Rani, II B.A.English attended the Republic Day Camp - 2006 in New Delhi and they receivedthe Pondichery medal and a cash prize. R. Sheeba Rani won a bronze medal forShip Modeling in Delhi.• Seven girl cadets attended the Marina Republic Day Camp and saluted theGovernor and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.• Cadet Captain Krithika, II B.A, Pol. Sc., attended the All India SailingCompetitions conducted at INS Chilka (Orissa) during January 2006. She won theAll India level silver medal despite very tough sailing conditions with windspeeds of about 12 to 14 knots.• L/c K. Mahalakshmi, II B.Sc. Physics, attended a training camp at the OfficersTraining Academy, Gwalior, January – February 2006.SCRUB SOCIETY• The Society organized programmes such as garbage cleaning and campus walksto create awareness among students on the significance of the greenery andwildlife of the campus, Turtle Walk along the East Coast, visit to Vandalur Zooand Vedanthalgal Birds Sanctuary, etc.• The Society also conducted an Inter-Collegiate Seminar on ‘City Environment’ inthe Botany Gallery of the College in collaboration with ‘KATHA’, a non-profitorganization in New Delhi. About 30 students from different Colleges in andaround Chennai presented papers.• Two of our students, Arun Krishnamoorthy and Susheel of MicrobiologyDepartment, SFS, were selected to present papers at an International Conferenceat New Delhi, sponsored by ‘KATHA’.STUDENTS SERVICE FOR THE BLIND• The Students Service for the Blind (SSB) continued to be active this year with aband of twenty student volunteers from both aided and self financed streams.They extended their support for recording and scribing work during the CA tests.• Organized a one-day workshop on ‘Science Experiments for the VisuallyChallenged’ in January 2006. Dr. Yoshiko Toriyama and Ms Shizuko Hamada,27

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIexperts in the field of Disability Sciences from University of Tsukuba, Japan,demonstrated Physics and Chemistry experiments with special tools. About eightyparticipants including special educators and visually challenged students benefitedfrom this workshop.• The SSB also prepared a teaching module for special educators on ‘TactilePerceptions of Cave Temples and Pallava Architecture’.• SSB has acquired a scanner for the purpose of transferring printed material intoreadable format. Mr. Sathoshi Nakano of Japan has donated a Braille label makerto SSB.• As SSB is celebrating its golden Jubilee year, a meeting of the visually challengedalumni and releasing of a souvenir have been planned for the end of this academicyear.COLLEGE UNION SOCIETY• The activities of the College Union Society were inaugurated by Mr. SashiKumar, a popular alumnus of the college.• ‘MCC- Marching towards a Cleaner Environment’, a programme launched withthe involvement of students and staff of this College, was geared towardsimproving the present status of the environment on campus. MCC has designed asustainable garbage disposal system, whereby the bio-degradable and non-biodegradablewastes are segregated at source and collected in appropriate binsmeant for that purpose which are periodically cleared. While the non biodegradableplastic wastes are sent for recycling, the biodegradable wastes arecollected in jute bags, which are biodegradable, and dumped in large pits oncampus. The possibilities of converting ‘waste to wealth’ throughvermicomposting and other technologies are being envisaged by the college.DR. DEVANESEN CENTRE FOR HRD• The College has never lost sight of the focus of the founders with regard to itsmission of building and sending forth streams of men and women who shall serveGod and the society as capable men and women of knowledge, character andvalues. In the recently evolved CBCS the mission has been incorporated into thecurriculum through a Personality Development Programme that is being offered28

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIto all the II year UG students. Discovering and developing oneself together withthe peers is a learning and living experience at MCC.• Dr. Devanesen Centre for HRD also extends its training programme to peopleoutside the portals of the College. During the year 2005-’06, programmes havebeen offered to the senior students of MCC School at Chetpet, students of EthirajCollege, Teachers of the Schools around Tambaram, students of theneighbourhood Christ King Girls Higher Secondary School and 220 workers ofthe Universal Moulds and Components, an export unit situated in KeelKattalai.• Eight members of the faculty Dr. Kannan, Mr.Jojan Job, Dr. David Prabhakar,Mr. Livingstone, Mrs. Shirmila, Dr. Mekala Rajan, Dr. Thomas Rosy, and Ms.Femina have also been trained to join the band of facilitators.CAMPUS MINISTRIESThe activities of the Campus Ministries for the year 2005-2006 commenced with aFaculty Retreat at St. Christopher’s College of Education. The Rev. Dr. Mani Chacko,Principal of Gurukul Theological College, was the leader for the retreat.• The Staff-Student retreat and retreat for members of all related institutions wereheld and were well attended.• Campus Ministries took initiative in raising funds for the Tsunami relief workcarried out by our college in Kokilamedu Village. With the financial aid given bythe Davidson College, North Carolina, USA, two boats with motors and nets wereprovided to the villagers. With additional funds from UBCHEA and St Paul’sEpiscopal Church, Clinton, USA, different activities are planned for thecommunity in Kokilamedu.• A State Level Workshop for the Teachers of Scripture was held in our Collegeduring October 2005. Christian Teachers from different colleges of Tamil Naduparticipated in this workshop.• The different units of the Campus Ministries (SCM, Staff Study Circle, ValueEducation etc.,) are active instruments to enhance the Christian presence in theneighbourhood by inculcating values and Christian principles and offeringdifferent service schemes to society.29

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAISTUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENTThe Student Christian Movement organized various programmes for the academicyear. The focus of the programmes was on building a strong Christian value baseamong the students with a social relevance. The programmes were:• Fresher’s Retreat with the Navodaya Team; Workshop on ‘the Da Vinci Hoax:Exploring the Errors in the Da Vinci Code’ led by Mr Cyril George of RZIM LifeFocus Society, New Delhi; screening of the movie ‘Run Baby Run’, theremarkable life story of Nicky Cruz, whose best selling autobiography has morethan 12 million copies in print in over 40 languages;• Students of SCM have taken efforts to get together children form ReachOrphanage and the Model Village for a day of retreat and sharing which gave thelittle hearts a time to rejoice and meet new friends; a one-day retreat wasconducted by SCMers for children in a school in the neighbourhood.• ‘The Saviour’s Day – the SCM Christmas Programme led by the world renownedmission leader Mr. R. Stanley, a former IITian and the Founder & President ofBlessing Youth Mission; Gospel Fest ’06-Screening of Movies like ‘Candle in theDark’ – the story of William Carey (the Father of the Modern Missions) andGod’s Outlaw – the story of William Tyndale.• Thought-provoking session on the lives of the founders of our College and othermissionaries who have laid down their lives for the cause of Christ, MusicConcert with emphasis on Missions led by the noted gospel singer MahboobKhan.• Leadership Training Camp was held at St Thomas International Centre, Hill Top,St. Thomas Mount. Resource persons were: Mr. Anand Pillai, Vice-President,HCL Technologies, Mr. Ashok Vedanayagam, Chief Coordinator, FMPB and Mr.Silas Balraj, Country Director, Caruna Bal Vikas.CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S STUDIESThe Centre for Women’s Studies has played a remarkable role in making the collegecommunity and the communities in and around Tambaram aware of the status ofwomen through its academic and outreach programmes. Highlights of theprogrammes organized this year are:30

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• ‘Let’s Talk’, a programmes for the PG and final year UG students. The aim wasto empower women students with the right knowledge and education aboutreproductive health. About 300 women students benefitted from this programme.• An annual sale was organized for the benefit of women workers on campus. Theproceeds from the sale was credited to the ‘Women Workers Welfare Fund’.• The Micro Credit programme started for the benefit of women workers oncampus led them to financial savings. Medical checkups were also organized forthem.• The centre works in three slum clusters at Durga Nagar, about 10 kms away fromMCC.SCHOOL OF CONTINUING EDUCATIONThe academic year of the MCC School of Continuing Education (MCCSCE)commenced on 7 th July 2005 with the enrolment of candidates for the full-timediploma and post-graduate diploma courses. This year witnessed the followingprogress:• There was a demand for courses such as Medical Laboratory Technology,Printing Technology, PG Diploma in Bio-informatics and Computer Science.• Students from the Aided Stream were opting for the short term certificate eveningprogrammes in Advertising and Public Relations, Human Resource Management,Business Management and Computer Applications.• The X Annual Convocation of the MCCSCE was held on 14 October 2005. Adistinguished alumnus of the college, Dr S. A. Nallathambi, delivered theConvocation Address.CULTURAL PROGRAMMES• The inter–collegiate cultural festival ‘Deepwoods’ is conducted by the CollegeUnion Society annually. The three day event received wide press coverage andappreciative feedback from alumni.• The residential halls of the college also conducted their unique cultural festivals.31

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• The college Western music teams won accolades all over South India, notably inCMC Vellore, JIPMER, Pondicherry, Christ College, NLSIU, Bangalore and IIT,Bangalore.• The inter-collegiate competitions ‘Insignia 2005’ was conducted on 22ndSeptember 2005 by the Department of Commerce (SFS) and around 100participants from 20 city colleges participated in events like Management Quiz,Event Management, Stock Wars, Crossword, Ad-designing, Ad-zap, etc.19. Teachers and officers newly recruited in 2005 - 2006:AIDED STREAMDepartment Name Month & YearEconomics S. Raja June 2005Philosophy M. E. Monsingh June 2005Social Work Jordanna Brooks June 2005Tamil R. Gowthaman June 2005Philosophy S. Indira June 2005Botany P. Selva Singh Richard June 2005Zoology Anne Shakila Reuben June 2005Zoology Logamanya Tilak J. June 2005Mathematics Jyothi Salomi Tsapa June 2005Statistics Elizabeth Sangeetha June 2005Physics S. Janet Priscilla June 2005Chemistry T. Jaba Priya June 2005Botany Ashok Kumar N. June 2005Physical Education J. N. Viswanath June 2005History Prachi Saehdev July 2005History V. Chitra July 2005Philosophy Kumari Sunitha V. August 200532

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIFrench R. Sujatha September 2005Physics Allan Sriman Selvaraj September 2005Language(Malayalam) A.K. Shanti November 2005Tamil B. Gunna Sundari January 2006SELF FINANCED STREAMDepartment Name Month & YearTamil M. Sudarvizhi j June 2005Business Administration Ganesan. K June 2005Business Administration Visalakshi June 2005Business Administration Prince Jason June 2005Micro Biology Niren Andrew June 2005Social Work Janice Shiji June 2005Social Work Naomi Lawrence June 2005Micro Biology Prem Kumar June 2005Micro biology Manju June 2005Geography Praveena Paul June 2005Journalism Shiny Sathish June 2005Business Administration Benjamin Paul July 2005Physics M. Rabikumar July 2005Computer applications Sweety Backiarani July 2005Computer Applications Naga Rathinam July 2005Mass Communication Ramya K. Prasad July 2005Mathematics Bobby Vinodhini August 2005Mathematics Asha Thomas August 2005French R. Sujatha September 200533

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAICommerce S. Ramkumar September 2005Micro Biology K. Kavitha September 2005Physical Education K. Nandha Kumar December 2005Tamil Felcy Sheebe December 200520. Teaching - non-teaching staff ratio:Teaching and non teaching staff ratio in the college is - 2:121. Improvements in the library services:• The catalogue of books and journals are computerized.• Video lectures and CDs are made available to students.22. New books/journals subscribed and their value:Total Numberof Books /JournalsNumber ofJournalsSubscribedNumber ofBooks boughtduring 2005-06Amount Spent1,41,650 131 3,482 Rs.13,37,428/-23. Courses in which student assessment of teachers is introduced and theaction taken on student feedback:Feedback on teaching and learning is done annually for bringing in improvements.Informal feedbacks are also obtained from the students for each course. Data iscollected and assessment is made for necessary improvements in teaching andlearning.24. Unit cost of education:Unit cost of education : Rs. 23,643.00Total expenditure during 2005-06 including the salary : Rs. 8, 87, 06,838.00Total no of students enrolled - 2005-06 : 151634

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI25. Computerization of Administration and the Process of Admissions andExamination Results, Issue of Certificates:• Important administrative offices such as Admission Office, Student RecordsOffice, Examination Office, Bursar’s Office, Alumni & Public Relations Officeetc. are fully computerized and function efficiently to cater to the needs of thestudent community.• Student profile and marks are computerized and this enables the college topublish the results on time and issue the certificates without any delay.26. Increase in the infrastructural facilities:Staff strength Martin Hall, the residential facility for women students, got a newextension block ‘Jubilee Block’ in July 2005. The hall now has a new Hall office,Auditorium, Guest Rooms, and Library. Currently, the student strength is 167 and thefaculty strength is four.27. Technology up-gradation:• Internet connectivity, scanners, projectors, fax machine, TV with dish antenna,PA systems, and Wi-Fi connections are available in the campus. Computer labsare centralized in Halls. Teleconferencing facilities is available in selecteddepartments.• Library is equipped with Digital media (CD, DVD) to disseminate knowledge.• Student Service for the Blind has acquired a scanner for the purpose oftransferring printed material to readable format. Mr. Sathoshi Nakano of Japanhas donated a Braille label maker to SSB.28. Computer and internet access and training to teachers and students:All the departments have computing facility with printers and other accessories. Inaddition to this teachers and students have two separate computer centres with internetconnection. Periodical training is given to teaching and non-teaching staff to acquaint35

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIthemselves with the latest technology. Students have computer training built into theircurriculum.29. Financial aid to students:Students are able to get more than 250 scholarships instituted either by thegovernment or the college management. Government Scholarship is generally tosupport financially backward students and those coming under the reservation quota.The following new scholarships/ prizes were instituted (2005 – 2006) to providesupport and incentive to students:• Dr T.Rajagopalan, former Head of the Department of Tamil, has instituted anendowment for prizes to be awarded in his name to III Year B.A. Tamil students(first and second places in Tamil grammar).• Prof. B. Venkataraman, former Head of the Department of Physics, has instituted‘Pondhuru V. Balasubramania Iyer Memorial Prize’ in memory of his father for aprize to be awarded to a II M.Sc. Physics student securing maximum marks in IIYear (III and IV Semester put together).• An Endowment has been instituted in honour of a former Professor ofMathematics, Narsimha Rao Kowtha, by his son Mr K.Yegnanarayana,Hyderabad, to award a prize every year to the best outgoing M.Sc. MathematicsStudent.• The staff of Davidson College, North Carolina, USA, have instituted anendowment in honour of Dr Job Thomas, who is also a Professor in DavidsonCollege and was instrumental in establishing a tie-up programme between MCCand Davidson College.• Dr M. Gladstone, former Principal of our College, has instituted the ‘VijayManuel Memorial Fund’, in memory of his son Vijay Manuel, for scholarships tobe awarded to economically backward or visually challenged students who attendHeber Chapel Sunday morning service irrespective of their religion.36

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI30. Activities and support from the alumni association:The alumni association continues to be active both in terms of activities andextending their support to their alma mater. Chapter meetings were held, theChristmas Concert was organized in December and alumni got together for the oldboys cricket match which was held in February 200631. Activities and support from the Parent-Teacher association:• Parent-Teacher Association is not formally structured. It is mandatory that allparents be present for the orientation programme conducted immediately after thecollege reopens every academic year. All parents or guardians have to sign thestudent record and parents and guardian should check the progress of students inthe hall. This has enabled the college to have regular contact with parents.• The Dean of Student Affairs periodically contacts students, parents based onacademic progress and disciplinary aspects. All the department Heads inviteparents as and when needed to discuss the progress of the students.• Some departments also do an orientation for parents on the course and its contentat the beginning of the academic year.32. Health services:A Resident Medical Officer in the college caters to the needs of students and staff oncampus. This service is offered to all students (resident and non-resident) and staff(teaching and non teaching). Free prescription and basic medicine are given to staffmembers and students. The doctor also visits the college extension centers to providehealth services for the poor and marginalized. The college has a strong tie-up withhospitals in and around Tambaram for access during emergencies. A medical fund isalso available for meeting the health needs of women workers in MCC.33. Performance in sports activities:Details of events in which Prizes/ Medals were won at the Inter-collegiate, State andNational level games during 2005-06:37

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAINational Level• In Athletics, N. Vadivel of II B.Sc. Physical Education won the gold medal in theSenior National Athletic Meet and he was selected for the Indian Camp.• K. Bharati Raj of II B.A. History captained the Tamil Nadu Team in the IndoorCricket Championship held at Haryana and the team finished runner-up.State Level Tournaments• Gold medals were won by G. Padmanaban, III B.A. Philosophy in 1500 mts, S.Sebaraj, II B.A. Philosophy in 100 mts, P. Chidambaram, II B.A. PoliticalScience, in Shot-put, Sahaya Jenil Xavier, II B.Com in 400 mts and V.Balamurali, II B.Sc. Physical Education in Decathlon in the Junior State AthleticMeet.• B. Arivazhagan, Sahaya Jenil Xavier, N. Vadivel and Satheeshwaran won goldmedals in the A.L. Mudaliar Meet.• The College Basketball Team won the First Babu Shankar Memorial State LevelInter-Collegiate Tournament held at Salem and was runner-up in many otherState Level tournaments. N. Kannan of II B.A. Political Science represented theJunior National basketball Team in an invitation tournament held at New Delhi.• College Football team secured the Third Place in the State Level EvangelineMemorial Football Tournament organized by Karunya Institute of Technologyand Science, Coimbatore, and was runner-up in the Danis Esau MemorialFootball Tournament held in our grounds.• In Chess, Kali Sekar of I B.A English Literature bagged the second place in theState Level tournament for the Visually Challenged organized by the RuralEducation and Social Trust of Neyveli.Inter – Collegiate Tournaments• College Basketball team won the prestigious Madras University Inter-zoneBasketball. The members of the team were: B. Vikram Kumar, Captain (III B.A.Pol. Sc.), N. Kannan (II B.A. Pol. Sc.), B. Anand Babu (II B.A. Pol. Sc.), J.Vinoth Kumar (II B.A. Pol. Sc.), P. Babu Kumar (II B.A. Pol. Sc.), K. MohanKumar (II B.A. Pol. Sc.), S. Krishna Prabhu (I B.A. Pol. Sc.), J. Karthik (II B.A.38

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIPhilosophy), Raghu Kumar (II B.Sc. Phy. Edn), J. Ramraj (II B.Sc. Phy. Edn), R.Gunasekaran (II B.Sc. Phy. Edn.), and K. Anantha Krishnan (II B.Sc. Phy. Edn).• The following students have donned University Colours: Athletics: B.Arivazhagan, A.S. Ranjith, Sahaya Jenil Zavier, N. Vadivel, Marimuithu andMohamad Rafi; Basketball: Vikram Kumar, N. Kannan, P. Babu Kumar, J.Vinoth Kumar, B. Ananth Babu and J. Karthik; Boxing: S. Thirumalai and S.Kathiravan; Football: B. Kumaravel, Pradeep Babu and Solomon Raj andHockey: S. Sargunam.The following were the achievements of the students of the Department of PhysicalEducation (SFS):• Lakshmi Prasad R S, Hockey, Represented the State & All IndiaInter-SAI Tournaments• Jospeh Prem Chandran, Athletics-Hammer Throw Gold Medallist in ALMudaliar Meet, Represented Madras University in All India Inter-University• Udayasuriyan, Football - Represented Madras University in All India Inter-University University (Twice)34. Incentives to outstanding sportspersons:Free Board and lodging are provided for outstanding sports persons in the halls ofresidence for men. Special diet is provided to ensure the physical fitness of thestudents. Scholarships are instituted for financial assistance to outstanding sportspersons. Academic support is also extended to the sportspersons of the college.35. Student achievements and awards:Department of Political Science• M. Vivekanandan, I M.A. and Pheroze Lawrence Vincent, III B.A jointly wonthe first prize in the Inter-Collegiate Quiz Competition held at SRM Arts &Science College, Vandalur, February 2006.Department of Economics• Ms Roopa Singh, an M.Phil Candidate, is a woman Jockey.39

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• Anil Ramprasad, II M.A., presented a paper on ‘Commodities Index andAgriculture’ at the UGC sponsored National level seminar held at Erode.• Beide Mariam Taye Bekale, I M.A., presented a paper on ‘Globalisation and itsimpact on Indian Agriculture’ at the UGC National Seminar organized by theDepartment of Economics, Erode Arts College, September 2005.• Siddarth Nanda and Rekha Rani Rao, I M.A., presented a paper on ‘ExternalSector of the Indian Economy’ organized by the Department of Economics,Arulanandar College, Madurai, December 2005.• In the research study undertaken by the Community Enterprise ForumInternational entitled ‘Mapping Opportunities for Artisanal Fisher folk in TamilNadu within the Fisheries Value Chain’, A. Senthil Kumar, Ashok Kumar,Jaison, (M.A.), John David and P.Senthil Kumar (B.A.) provided help in datacollection and field situation analysis using a variety of research tools.• Anil Ramprasad, II M.A., presented a paper at the Centre for Civil Society, NewDelhi, on Public Policy Think Tank. He also represented India at Gummesbach,Germany, for Friendrich Nauman Foundation as a delegate. He was one amongthe 29 members selected world-wide to participate in the programme.Department of Social Work• The II MSW students, as part of their field work requirement, went on aninternational study tour to the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan in August 2005.• Two students of II MSW went on an international internship to the partnerinstitute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, for six months.Department of Mathematics• Zainab Fathima and Richard Edwin of II B.Sc. won the First Prize with acertificate and a memento in the programme of MATH-DUEL (Debate) on thetopic ‘Relevance of Mathematics in day to day life’, held in Loyola College,December 2005. Zainab Fathima was adjudged the best speaker in the event.40

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of Statistics• The students of the department won the overall shield of Six Sigma 2005conducted by the Statistics Association, Department of Statistics, Loyola College,Chennai.Department of Physics• Oinam G., III B. Sc was Selected for Integrated Ph D at IISc, 2005Department of Chemistry• Rangarajan and Rajarajan, II B.Sc won I prize in ‘Can you crack them’; S. Sriram,III B.Sc won III prize in Crossword; Jacob George, III B.Sc won II prize inCreative writing; L. Rosary, Indira Priyadarshini, Rajan, Deborah, Julia Persis,Mercy Peninel, I M.Sc. won II prize in Ad zap, Inter-collegiate ChemistryCulturals, Reactions ’06 Symphoria, Stella Maris College, Chennai, February2006.• Sreeraj Gopi, I M.Sc., ‘Studies on Computer Assisted Drug Design’, won I prize;Sreeraj Gopi and Sophia Tharani won II Prize in Quiz; Sreeraj Gopi and K.S.Robin won I prize in Chem. Wizard, National Level Students Symposium Horizon2005, ‘Recent trends in Cheminformatics’, organized by the Department ofChemistry, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, September – October2005.• B. Venkatram and N. Vidhya, M.Sc. students selected for the DST Award forparticipation in the Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, inGermany; they were selected for the Young Achievers award by the ‘EducationWorld’ (monthly magazine), July 2005; they delivered a lecture ‘Rendezvous withNobel Laureates at Lindau, Germany’, at the University of Madras, GuindyCampus, Chennai, July 2005.• Priya Matharasi, R.S. Beulah and Manovah David, I M.Sc., National Seminar on‘Recent Advances in Nano Science and Technology’, Department of Chemistry,Periyar University, Salem, September 2005.• Sreeraj Gopi and K.S. Robin, participated in ‘City Environment’, a seminarorganized by the Department of Botany, MCC.41

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• K. Elango, II M.Sc., won I prize in written quiz; Y. Jones Bennett won III prize indebate; Y. Jones Bennett, C. Arun Bharathi, T. Ranjith Kumar, G. SivaRamakrishnan, K.R. Rajarajan, and S. Purushtohaman won III prize in Ad zap,Inter-collegiate Chemistry Culturals, organized by Loyola College, Chennai.• Sophia Tharani, I M.Sc. won II prize in Poster Presentation, Inter-CollegiateBioscience Culturals ‘Trident’, Department of Biochemistry, T.S. NarayanaswamiCollege of Arts and Science, Navalur, January 2006.• R.S. Beulah, II M.Sc. Chemistry, won II prize in Creative Writing; Sophia Tharaniand R.S Beulah, won I prize in Collage; P. Priyadarshini and Sophia Tharani wonII prize in Rangoli; Priya Matharasi presented a paper on ‘Smart Metals’; IndiraPriyadarshini, Chandrakala, Mercy Peninel, Julia Persis, Deborah won I prize inAd zap. The students of the department bagged the Overall Championship.• Rangarajan and Rajarajan, II B.Sc., won I prize in ‘Can you crack them’; S.Sriram, III B.Sc., won III prize in Crossword; Jacob George, III B.Sc. won II prizein Creative Writing; L. Rosary, Indira Priyadarshini, Rajan, Deborah, Julia Persis,Mercy Peninel, I M.Sc. won II prize in Ad zap, Inter-collegiate ChemistryCulturals Reactions’ 06 Symphoria, Stella Maris College, Chennai, February2006.• C. Peace Vimala Kirubavathy, II M.Sc., has completed the project entitled‘Studies on the Structure Activity Relationship of Aerogel Derived AluminaSupported Chromia Catalyst’, sanctioned by the Tamil Nadu State Council forScience and Technology, Chennai.• A. Kumaran, Research Scholar, presented papers on: ‘Bio-assay Guided Isolationand Identification of Antioxidant compounds from Coleus Aromatics’, UGCsponsored RETCHEMBIC 05, VHNSN College, Virudhunagar, July 2005; and ‘InVitroxidanat Activities of Methanol Extracts of Fine Phyllanthus Species fromIndia’, LWT Food Science and Technology (Elsevier Publication), available online, November 2005.• Sathyapriya, Research Scholar, presented a paper on ‘A Novel Synthesis ofIodonaphthalenes’, at the International Conference on Science and Technology forSustainable Development, St. Berchman’s College, Chaganassery, Kottayam,August 2005.42

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of Botany• C. Chandrakala, J. Soundarapandi and J. Sivarani (D. Narasimhan) presented apaper on ‘Plant Drug Resources and Trade’ at VISTAS in Plant Medicine, aseminar organized by the Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology,New College, Chennai, January 2006.• C. Chandrakala, A.K. Rathinakmari and C.K. Sathya (D. Narasimhan) presented apaper on ‘Angiosperm Species Diversity: Global National and Regional Scenario’at the Seminar on Biodiversity organized by Government Museum, Chennai andArulagam, Coimbatore at the Museum Theatre, Government Museum, Chennai,February 2006.• R. Valarmathi and (G.A.I. Ebenezer), In Vitro Studies on Two Important Varietiesof Sorghum (Sorghum Bicolor (L) Moench). Abstract No. PP8.• V. Raveendran and (G.A.I. Ebenezer), In Vitro Callus Induction from Rauvolfiaserpentna Linn. and Rauvolfia tetraphylla Linn. For Culture Studies, Abstract No.P. 9• Ibid.; A.K. Shanmugapriya and (G.A.I. Ebenezer), Cayulogenesis and CallusInduction from the Seed Explant of an Important Medicinal Plant GymnemaSylvestre (Retz) Schultr. Programme Abstract No.PP 10,• R. Shyamala and (G.A.I. Ebenezer) In Vitro Studies on a Potential Medicinal PlantSolanum trilobatum Linn. Abstract No. PP11,• Joyce Mary Angelin and ((G.A.I. Ebenezer), Micropropagation of a PotentialMedicinal Plant Desmodum gangeticum (L) DC Proceedings of the Seminar cumExhibition on Students Projects, Tamil Nadu, August 2005.• Pooja Singh, Christopher Raja Singh and Veena Anandan of II B.Sc. and S. SujuKumar of I.B.Sc won the Third place in ADZAP at SDNB Vaishnav College forWomen, Chrompet, August 2005.• D. Prabha visited Cologne, Germany, to participate in the World Youth DayCelebration, August 2005.• Final year UG Students Nina Nelson, M. Ilayaraja and S. Karthikeyan participatedand presented papers in the one day inter-disciplinary seminar on ‘City43

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIEnvironment’ organized by the Scrub Society of MCC in collaboration with‘Katha’, a non-profit organization at the Botany gallery, MCC, December 2005.• Pooja Singh and Veena Anandan of II B.Sc. won the first prize in Quizcompetition at SIET College, Chennai, January 2006.• P. Nehru of III B.Sc. won the first prize for Loyola Beauty in 60 minutes, LoyolaCollege, Chennai, January 2006.Department of Zoology• B. Prashanth, II B.Sc. Zoology, won the II prize in the Essay competition onEnvironmental Issues, Conducted by New Acropolis Cultural Organization’ heldat Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai.Department of Visual Communication (SFS)• Students of the department won the overall championship at CRAB conducted bythe Artlab, Media Institute, Chennai.• The third year students bagged the first and second places in photographycompetition held at JIPMER, Pondicherry.• Deepa Beulah Evylen is the Chairperson for the NGO, Asian Youth Centre whichis responsible for constituting the 1066 helpline for women and children.Department of Microbiology (SFS)• The students of the department participated in the Inter-collegiate programme onEnvironmental Awareness organized jointly by the Government of Tamil Naduand Loyola College and won the Rolling Trophy for winning maximum number ofevents.• Arun Krishnamoorthy and Susheel Kumar, students of the department, won thepaper presentation competition organized by the Scrub Society and KATHA on‘City Environment’ and were selected to attend the ten-day InternationalConference on ‘Writing the city and transforming the city’ in New Delhi.44

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of Business Administration (SFS)• Saikat Saha, II BBA won the second prize in the Creative Writing competition inthe All India Level Management Meet held at Sri Venkateswara College ofEngineering.• Joshua Rozarios and Saikat Sahat, were the finalists in the National Level paperpresentation on ‘The New Age Manager as a Leader and Change Agent’,conducted by the Management Association at Ethiraj College, Chennai.Department of Communication (SFS)• D. Rachel Chitra, I M. A. Communication, is working as a sub-editor in the TamilNadu Desk for the main pages of the New Indian Express and has helped thecollege in publishing articles on Deepwoods, MCC clean-up campaign, and ProfRobinson’s innovations for the visually challenged.• B. Sowmya, I M. A. Communication, interned as a research trainee for the Centrefor Public Policy Research, Kochi, Kerela.• Deepa Beulah Evelyn and Sneha Anna Thomas, I M.A. Communication, baggedthe second place, in the Fashion Show competition held in JIPMER, Pondicherry.• Joseph Alex Neelatu and Rashmi Ravindran, II M.A. Communication, worked asEditorial Assistants of the Daily Bulletin of the 10 th International Film Festival ofKerala, December 2005.• M. S. Anjana, II M.A. Communication bagged the first prize in the light musiccompetition at SARANG organized by IIT, Chennai.Department of Chemistry (SFS)• K. Ganesh of I M.Sc. attended the Summer Training in Chemistry in IGCAR,Kalpakkam during 28 May to 08 July, 2005 and carried out laboratory work inThermal Analysis, Laser Thin film Deposition, Mass Spectroscopy.• Janani, D. Sathya, S. Vinod Selvaganesh, Talluri B. Chowdry & M. DeviParashakthi attended a workshop on ‘Group Theory and its Application toMolecular Vibrations’, organized by the Indian Spectrophysics Association(ISPA) and Post Graduate and Research Department of Physics, held at thePachaiyyappa’s College, Chennai on 8 October 2005.45

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• S. Vinod Selvaganesh attended an ‘International Symposium on Advances inElectrochemical Science and Technology’ organized by National Institute ofOceanography (NIOT), Goa, India, 2006.• A, S. Janani, D. Sathya, S. Iyyampillai, S. Vinod Selvaganesh, S. Daniel Nelson,P. Muralimohan & C.K. Kasiviswanath Jayapal attended the National Workshopon ‘Advanced Technique for Corrosion studies’, National Corrosion Council ofIndia, Karaikudi, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, January 2006.• S. Iyampillai published a paper on Sciff’s Base Phenol-Hydrazone Derivatives asColorimetric Chemosensors for Fluoride Ions, in Tetrahedron Letters 49(2008),333-132.36. Activities of the guidance and counseling unit:Cell / CentreStudents seeking serviceWomen’s Cell / Counseling Cell 40Grievance Cell 30The college has a Centre for Women’s Studies which offers academic programmes forwomen students. The Dean of Women Students takes care of the issues concerningwomen students. The College Counseling Cell is headed by a member of the facultyand offers help to students who are in need.37. Placement services provided to students:Realizing the need and also as a mandatory requirement, an exclusive placement cellwas formed to enhance the employability of our students. This year there has been atremendous response from the corporate industry and also from our students withregard to campus recruitment. Over 30 companies have visited our campus and about240 students were selected. The highest recruiter in terms of pay is D. E. Shaw, whichpays close to Rs. 30, 000 per month. Infosys conducted the campus interview for fivecolleges in Chennai, including MCC, in our college campus on 04 February 2006.46

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI38. Development programmes for non-teaching staff:• Non-teaching Staff Association is very active and well organized. It liaisons withthe college administration in decision making with regard to the non-teachingmembers of the staff.• Members of the Non-teaching Staff Association meet often to discuss the variousissues pertaining to them.• Sports events are exclusively conducted to encourage camaraderie and team spiritamong the staff.• Annual retreat is organized for the members of the Non-teaching staff to promoteoneness and spiritual renewal.• A tour is organized annually to bring about unity and brotherhood amongst themembers of the staff.• Special dispensation in the form of waiving of fee structure is given to the childrenof Non teaching Staff members.• Children of the Non-teaching Staff are given special fee concessions duringadmission.39. Healthy practices of the institution:Academics• Personality Development program is integrated into the curriculum and is offeredfor 2 semesters in the UG curriculum.• Students have an opportunity for service-learning in India and abroad.• Gender studies are an integral part of the academic program.• There is a thrust on value education and it is offered in 2 Semesters.• Research and publications are strongly encouraged.• Various faculty exchange programs offer opportunities for members of the facultyto gain exposure abroad and engage in collaborative research.47

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• Students have the option to choose languages like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada,Malayalam, Hindi, Sanskrit, French and German under Part I of the UGcurriculum.Administration• Democratic decision making and team work are the hall mark of the collegeadministration.• Student representation is ensured in all academic and governing bodies in thecollege.• Career and personal counseling is offered for all students.• Good infrastructure and the latest laboratory facilities are ensured for the studentsto make the best of their time in the college.• Community service to the neighboring villages through extension units is highlyencouraged and students take an active role in the execution of the projects.• Many opportunities are created for Teaching and Non-teaching Staff to meet eachother and spend valuable time together.• Computer-aided learning and holding demonstration classes wherever possiblebefore lectures.• Placement Cell, Career Counseling and Alumni Office help the students to enterinto a career that best suits them.Students• The College Union Society is a well-structured body and it is well represented.• Utmost importance is given to provide individual attention to students and lendinghelp to solve personal problems.• Obtaining feedback from alumni on course content and thereby improving bothsyllabus and quality of teaching.• Every effort is taken to help physically challenged students especially visuallyhandicapped students.• College has instituted a large number of scholarships for providing financialassistance to economically backward students.48

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI• Organizes international study tours for cultural immersion and learningexperience.• Social Experience laboratory and process lab are in place to give the rightorientation for students.Sports• Excellent facilities for all sporting activities and athletics are provided and theDirector of Physical Education coordinates the activities and trains students forvarious competitions.Community Service• Social transformation is brought about in the neighborhood in education,employment and social welfare through the concerted efforts of the various unitsof the College.• The college as in the times past responds to current social needs as seen in thenumerous programmes post-tsunami.Support SystemsThere are many units and support systems which are unique to the college.• The Scrub Society – monitors the environment and maintains the campusecosystem.• Anti-Ragging Committee – prevents ragging on campus• MCC Miller Fund – helps meet educational needs of the children of Non teachingstaff.• The office of Curator – the curator protects the flora and fauna on campus.• Staff Study Circle – a forum for sound thinking on several subjects for members offaculty.• The College Cafeteria – It does not merely appease hunger and quench thirst butprovides an ambience and space where the intellectual and the down-to-earthcongregate for dialectics.49

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIExtracurricular Activities• Deep Woods, the main intercollegiate cultural event of the College is very popularamong students and the events are entirely managed by students.• Each Hall has its own Cultural Programmes.• Women students, particularly non-residents celebrate Non-Resident’s Women’sDay.• These diverse cultural programmes provide opportunities for organizing events, tointeract with people persuasively, to overcome failures in life, financialmanagement and public relations.40. Linkages developed with National /International, academic /Researchbodies:College has signed MOUs for Academic Cooperation with the following internationalinstitutions during the current academic year.• Liverpool Hope University, UK• Mediant – Mental Health Institution, Enscheda, The Netherlands• Saxion University, The Netherlands• Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada• Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan41. Any other relevant information the Institution wishes to add:The hallmark of Madras Christian College has been the innovativeness and expertiseof its faculty. Members of the faculty have been involved in highly specializedprogrammes such as presentation and publication of papers in national andinternational conferences, workshops and seminars and books and reviews written andpublished. They have also been resource persons in various capacities in variousacademic forums. Given below is the rich professional data of the academicinvolvement of our faculty in various aspects.50

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIPUBLICATIONSDepartment of EnglishNimal Selvamoney, (i) ‘From Environmental Aesthetics to Eco-poiesis’,Environmental Aesthetics, Ed.S.Vanathu Antoni, Department of Philosophy,Karumathur, Madurai, 2005; (ii) ‘Human Identity in Some Contemporary AsianPoems’, Akshara: Annual Research, Journal of Critical and Creative Writing inEnglish, Vol. I.1, 2005.Ann Thomas, ‘Oikopetic Study of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Journal of the Magi’, RationalDiscourse, Journal of Current Research and Studies, Vol. X, Nos. I & II, 2005.Department of TamilMoses Michael Faraday, ‘Thanjai Vedanayagar Tamil Kodai’ -A Research Work,Kiruba Publishers, December 2005.G. Rajendran, (i) Kal-part I, Kaviri Publishers, Chennai, 2006; (ii) Udal UrupuChorkal, Kaviri Publishers, Chennai, 2006.G. Rajendran, (i) Tamil root sexu into European Languages, Thenmozhi monthlymagazine May-June 2005; (ii) ‘Word Brilliant from the Tamil Word Vevuku’, MCCMagazine, 2006.S. Balusami (ed), Neidhal: A Collection of Tamil Poems, For Part I Tamil, SecondYear, 2005.P. David Prabhakar, ‘Krishthava Keerthanai Sorkalanjiam’: A book on ChristianTamil Lyrics.Department of HistoryC. Joseph Barnabas, (i) ‘Human Rights Perspectives’, School of Social Sciences,Tamil Nadu Open University, DOTE Campus, Guindy, Chennai, First Edition (Alsotranslated in Tamil), 2005; (ii) ‘Value Based Education – An Instrument for SocialTransformation’, Proceedings of International Conference on Developing CompetitiveStrength in Institutions of Higher Learning in Changing Scenario, Ethiraj College forWomen, Chennai, 2005.51

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of Political ScienceJ. Ramesh Sundar, ‘Leadership Style Preferences’, Management Matters, LIBAPublications, Chennai, 2005.A. Subramanian, (i) ‘The Indian Ocean Tsunami’, Preliminary Field Report on India,Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware and Emergency Management andPlanning Programme, University of North Texas, 2005; (ii) ‘Sumatra-AndamanIslands Earthquake’, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, California, USA,Virtual Clearing House Observations, 2005; (iii)‘Disaster Research Center SendsTeam to South Asia’, Arts & Sciences Newsletter, University of Delaware, 2005; and(iv)‘The Great Sumatra Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004’,EERI Special Earthquake Report, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute,California, Virtual Clearing House Observations, 2005.W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar (i) ‘Regional Maritime Dynamics in Southern Asia in the21 st Century’, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Maritime Security in the Asia-Pacific (Singapore: IDSS & World Scientific Publications, 2005); (ii) ‘India and theBallistc Missile Defenses’, Raju G.C. Thomas and Stanley Wolpert, The GaleEncyclopedia of India, 4 Volumes, New York Gale & Thompson, November 2005;(iii) ‘Rugged and Smart: Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition: An Analysis’, Defence& Technology, Vol. IV, No.43, December 2005; (iv) ‘Book Review: Alyssa Ayresand Philip Oldenburg: India Briefing: Takeoff at Last’, Armonk, New York: M.E.Sharpe, 2005 published on Contemporary South East Asia: A Journal of Internationaland Strategic Affairs, Singapore, Vol27, No.3, December 2005; (v) ‘India’s EvolvingMaritime Profile and Strategy’, SP’s Naval Forces, Vol. q, Issue 1, January 2006; (vi)‘Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition: An Analysis’, Defence& Technology, Vol. IV, No.44, January 2006; (vii) ‘Maritime Doctrines in the Asia-Pacific Maritime Affairs’ (Journal of the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi)Volume 2 No 2 Winter 2006 pp1-28; (viii) ‘Defence Transformation: The IndianContext and Imperatives Security and Society’ (Journal of the Centre for Strategic andRegional Studies, University of Jammu) Volume 2 Issue 2, Winter 2006, pp. 20-32.J. Diviyan, Joint Authorship of study material for distant education course of Institutefor Correspondence Education, University of Madras, 2005-06.52

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of Public AdministrationWilliam Gnanasekaran, ‘Land Report India – Rights, Policies and Social Integrationof the Disabled in India’ in the Book – Disabled in Asia and Europe - A ComparativeStudy, Published by Max Planet Institute, Munich, Germany; Publishers: NomosPublications Baden – Baden Germany, pp. 367-375, August 2005.Department of EconomicsA. Annadurai, on ‘Intellectual Property Rights and the Commons - A Case ofIndigenous Knowledge in India’ (Co-author) in the book on ‘Role of Universities inPromotion of Intellectual Property, Serials Publications, New Delhi, 2006.Department of PhilosophyM. Gabriel, (i) ‘The Concept of Faith and Religious Experience according toRamanuja and Kierkegaard’, Modern Trends in Vedanta, Department of Philosophy,University of Kerala, 2005; (ii) ‘Kierkegaard on Subjective Truth’, Philosophy andReligion Today, Department of Philosophy, Madura College, Madurai, 2005;K. Joshua, (i) ‘Relevance of Christian Apologetics in the Indian Context’, C.S. LewisFoundation, California, 2005; (ii) ‘Evangelical Inclusivism as a Christian Response toReligious Pluralism’, Dharma Deepika, A South Asian Journal MissiologicalResearch, Chennai, 2005; (iii) ‘Impressions of a Pre-modern Indian Evangelical in aPost-Modern Group’, Dharma Deepika, A South Asian Journal of MissiologicalResearch, Chennai, 2005; (iv)‘Some Perils and Prospects of Post-modernism’,Philosophy in the New Millennium; Problems and Prospects, Department ofPhilosophy, Kerala University, 2005; (v) ‘Indian Christian Thinkers’, Satya NilayamResearch Journal, Chennai, 2005; (vi) ‘Postmodernism: A Foundationalist Critique’,in Madras Christian College Magazine, Vol. LXXI, 2005 – 2004 & 2005, pp. 50 – 58;(vii) ‘Celebrating Milestones in our 170 Years of History’, in Madras ChristianCollege Magazine, vol. LXXIII, 2005-2006, pp.84-85.Department of CommerceCharles Suresh David, (i) ‘Information Technology Related Services – Are we on theright track?’, Indian Commerce Bulletin, Commerce Association of Kerala, Vol. Lx.No.1, August 2005; (ii) ‘Managing Bio-Technology’, Indian Commerce Bulletin,53

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAICommerce Association of Kerala, Vol. X No.1, January 2006; and (iii) ‘ForeignDirect Investment in India – Challenges Ahead’, ACCST Journal, January 2006.John Gabriel, ‘Passenger Reservation System in Indian Railway – A Study’, Journalof Institute of Public Enterprises, Osmania University, Hyderabad, June 2005.Department of MathematicsV.R. Dare and D.G. Thomas, (i) ‘Infinite Words Obtained by Cooperating DistributedGrammar Systems’, Mathematical and Computational Models, Allied Publishers,2005, 721-727; (ii) ‘Recognizability of ISO Picture Languages by Domino Systems’,Mathematical and Computational Models, Allied Publishers, 2005, 772-782.V.R. Dare, P.J.Abisha and D.G.Thomas, ‘Computing all Repeats of a Partial Wordusing Suffix Tree and Valency Tree’, in Discrete Mathematics and its Applications,Narosa Publishing House, 2006, 220-222.V.R. Dare and P.J. Abisha, ‘Arrays and Special Subarrays’, In Discrete Mathematicsand its Applications, Narosa Publishing House, 2006, 175-183.D.G.Thomas, V.R. Dare and T. Robinson, ‘Circular Languages and LearningAlgorithms’, Proceedings of Indian International Conference on ArtificialIntelligence, 2005, 2668-2678.V.R. Dare, P.J. Abisha and T. Robinson, ‘Triangular Pasting Systems’, RaniSiromoney: 75 th Birthday volume, World Scientific, MPAI, Series, 2006.D.G.Thomas and N.G. David, (i) ‘Hexagonal Array Acceptors and Learning’, RaniSiromoney: 75 th Birthday volume, World Scientific, MPAI, Series, 2006; (ii)Generation of Heaxagonal Arrays Based on Contextual Grammars’, in Mathematicaland Computational Models, Allied Publishers, 2005, 711-720;D.G. Thomas, ‘Codes Modulo Finite String Rewriting Systems’, in Mathematical andComputational Models, Allied Publishers, 2005, 744-749D.G. Thomas and P.J. Abisha, ‘Hexagonal Array Replacement and Public KeyCryptosystems’, in Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Narosa PublishingHouse, 2006, 115-119.T. Robinson, ‘Digitalization of Kolam Patterns and Tactile Kolam Tools’, RaniSiromoney: 75 th Birthday volume, World Scientific, MPAI, Series, 2006.54

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIB. Adolf Stephen, (i) ‘A Coefficient Inequality for a certain Subclasses ofMeromorphic Functions’, Advances in Applied Mathematical Analysis Vol.1, No.1,pp 1-8, 2006. (with B. Srutha Keerthi, A. Gangadharan, S. Sivasubramanian); (ii) ‘ACoefficient Inequality for a certain Subclasses of Analytic Functions related toComplex Order’, The Australian Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications,Vol. 3 Issue 2, Article XPP1-18, 2006, (with B. Srutha Keerthi, S. Sivasubramanian),(iii) ‘Fekete-Szego type Inequalities for certain Subclasses of Analytic Functions ofComplex Order’, Far East Journal of Mathematical Science Vol. 23(2), 201-208,2006. (with B.Srutha Keerthi, A.Gangadharan); (iv) ‘Neighbourhood Properties ofCertain Subclasses of Analytic Functions related to Complex Order’, Far East Journalof Mathematical Science Vol. 23(2), 253-262, 2006, (with K.Suchitra and A.Gangadharan) (v) On Contraction of Certain Subclasses of Harmonic UnivalentFunctions, Ganitha, Vol. 57, No.1. Pp 21-31, 2006, (with G. Murugusundaramoorthy,Thomas Rosy) (vi) ‘A Co-efficient Inequality for Certain Classes of AnalyticFunctions of Complex Order’, Journal of In-equalities in Pure and AppliedMathematics, Vol.7, issue IV, 2006, (with S.Sivasubramanian and K.Suchitra); (vii)‘Inclusion and Neighbourhood Properties of Certain Subclasses of Analytic andMultivalent Functions of Complex Order’, Journal of In-equalities in Pure andApplied Mathematics Vol.7 issue IV, 2006, (with S.Sivasubramanian, K.Suchitra andH.M.Srivastava)Thomas Rosy, ‘Fractional Calculus and their Application to Certain Subclass ofAlpha-Uniformly Star like Functions’, Far East J. Mathematical Science, 19(1) (2005)57-70.Huldah Sathyaseelan, ‘On Generalized Parikh Vectors’, in Proceedings of theNational Conference on Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, September 2005K.G. Subramanian, (i) ‘2D and 3D Pictural Networks of Evolutionary Processors’,Proceedings of the International Work Conference on the Interplay between Naturaland Artificial Computation, IWINAC, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3562, 92-101, June 2005; (ii) ‘P Systems Generating 3D Rectangular Picture Languages’,Proceedings of the Workshop on Theory and Application of P Systems, Romania,September 2005; (iii) ‘Petri Nets with String-labeled Tokens’, Proceedings of theInternational Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems andApplications, July 2005; (iv) ‘Local and Recognizable Hexagonal Picture Languages’,55

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIInternational Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 19,No.7(2005) 853-871; (v) ‘Differential Subordination Associated with Certain LinearOperators Defined by Multivalent Functions’, Acta Mathematica Vietnamica Vol. 30,No.2, 2005; (vi) ‘Finite Array Automata and Regular Array Grammars’, RaniSiromoney: 75 th Birthday Volume, World Scientific MPAI Series, 2006; (vii) ‘AClass of Multivalent Functions with Negative Coefficients Defined by Convolutions’,Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society, 2006; and (viii) ‘Radius Problems for aClass of Analytic Functions’, Demonstration Mathematics, 2006.J. Samuel Cornelius, ‘Church of South India Synod Statistics for 2004-2006’,Proceedings of the 30 th Session of the Synod held at Mysore, January 2006.M.K. Viswanath, ‘Pollard’s Rho Split Knowledge Scheme’, Rani Siromoney: 75 thBirthday Volume, World Scientific MPAI Series, 2006.Department of StatisticsM. Bagavandas, ‘Quantification of Style Traits of Two Tamil Scholars’, Proceedingsof International Seminar on Literary Genres of World Tamil Literature, November2005, Department of Tamil, Dr MGR Janaki College of Arts & Science for Women,Chennai, Vol.3, pp. 175-92 and 169-74 respectively.G. Manimannan and M. Bagavandas, (i) ‘Computational Authorship using NeuralNetwork’, Proceedings of the UGC-SAP (DRS) National Conference on Computingand Mathematical Modeling, The Gandhigram Rural University, Gandhigram,Dindugal, India, Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, pp.213-221, 2006; (ii)‘A Study on Authorial Consistency and Attribution: a Canonical DiscriminateAnalysis Approach’, Proceedings of the 8 th International Conference on the StatisticalAnalysis of Textual Data, University of Besancon, France, Vol. I, 89-98, 2006.Department of ChemistryR. Wilfred Sugumar, (i) ‘Tata McGraw-Hill’s Chemistry for Class VI MatriculationBoard’, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi, 2005; (ii) ‘Water Projectas a Tool of Service- Learning’, Bulgarian Journal of Chemistry Education 14(3)2005, 230-237; (iii) ‘Role of Service-Learning in Water Quality Studies’, Bulletin ofEnvironmental Sciences, 23(2005), 37 – 44.56

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIR. Joel Karunakaran, (i) ‘Tata McGraw-Hill’s Chemistry for Class IX MatriculationBoard’, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi, 2005; (ii) ‘ElectrophilicAromatic Iodination by I2 and KBrO 3 ’, Proceedings of International Congress ofChemistry (ICCE – 2005); (iii) ‘Eco-friendly Method of Preparation of IodoaromaticCompounds’, Proceedings of International Interdisciplinary Conference onSustainable Technology for Environmental Protection (ICSTEP), 2006; (iv) ‘In VitroAntioxidant Activities of Methanol Extracts of Fine Phyllanthus Species from India’,LWT – Food Science and Technology (Elsevier Publication). Available online from 7November 2005; (v) ‘Anti Oxidant and Free Radical Scavenging Activity of anAqueous Extract of Coleus Aromatics’, Food Chemistry (Elsevier Publication),Available online, 27 June 2005.P.S. Raghavan, ‘The Role of Metal Complexes in Nuclear Reactor Decontamination’,Power Plant Chemistry, 8, (7), (2006), 409 – 414.P. Wilson, ‘Effect of Nanoporous ZrO 2 Crystal Size on the Surface Sulphur Capacityand Performance of Sulfated Zirconia as an Acidic Catalytic material ‘Nanoporousmaterials’, IV A. Sayari and M. Jaroniec (eds). Stud.suf.sci.catal. 156 (2005) 385-392, Proceedings of the 4 th International symposium on Nanoporous Materials,Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, June 2005.Department of BotanyM. Baluswami, (i) ‘Seasonal Variation in Bio-chemical Constituents of GrateluopiaLithophila Boergesen’, Seaweed Research & Utilisation, 27 (1&2): 53-56; (ii) ‘Effectof Liquid Seaweed Fertilizers Extracted from Gracilaria edulis (Gmel.), Silva,Sargassum Wightii Greville and Ulva Lactuca Linn on the Growth and Yield ofAbelmoschus esculanttus (L.) Moench’, Indian Hydrobiology 7 (supplement): 69-78;(iii) ‘Tuomeya Americana (Kuetzing) Papenfuss, a Fresh Water Red Alga New toIndia’, Indian Hydrobiology 8(1): 104.D. Narasimhan, (i) ‘Floral Diversity of Tamil Nadu’, ENVIS News Letter SpecialIssue Vol. 2(1): 1- 5. Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu; (ii)‘Ecology of Sacred Trees: Temple Trees of Northern Tamil Nadu’, PILC Journal ofDravidic Studies, Vol.13: 89-118.57

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of ZoologyP. Sitarami Reddy, ‘Non-index Methods to Assess Marine and Coastal Biodiversity’,SDMR Special Resources Publication, No. 10, 266 – 277.R.W Alexander Jesudasan, (i) ‘Continental Comparison of the Interaction betweenClimate and the Herbivorous Mite, Floracarus perrepae (Acarina: Eriyophidae)’,Florida Entomologist 88 (2): 129-134; (ii) ‘New Record of Whiteflies (Aleyrodidae:Hemiptera: Isecta) in Mangrove Forests of Southern India’, Entomon 30(1): 31-37;and (iii) ‘On the Heaemocytes of Helicoverpa Armigera (Hubner) (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae)’, Journal of Applied Zoological Researches.A. Mohan Daniel and R. Raveen, ‘Studies on the Internal Female ReproductiveSystem of Cylas Formicarius (Fabr.) (Brentidae: Coleoptera)’, Journal of AppliedZoological Researches 17(1).Ananthi Rachel, ‘The Tingifauna of Indian Region, their Host Plants, FeedingStrategies and Nutritional Ecology’, Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology 25(2): 113-137,ISSN 0256 267IX.Department of Visual Communication (SFS)Susan Sridhar wrote a chapter for the book titled ‘Children, Youth and the ElectronicMedia – Prospects and Portents’, India Space Research Organization, B.R. Publishers,New Delhi, October 2005.Department of JournalismJojan Job, ‘The Indian Narrative System’ in Sadhanas.com, a web magazine on IndianCulture.Department of Chemistry (SFS)A.A.M. Prince, ‘Electrochemical Studies on Mixture of LiNi 0.8 Co 0.17 Al 0.03 O 2 andLiCoO 2 Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries’, Solid State Communications134(10), 687, 2005.A. Carmalin Sophia, (i) ‘Stabilization of Plating Sludge using Cement, Gypsum andLime’, Poll Res, 24, 267-270, 2005; (ii) ‘Assessment of the Mechanical Stability andChemical Leachability of Immobilized Electroplating Waste’, Chemosphere, 58(1),75-82, 2005; (iii) ‘Leaching of Metals on Stabilization of Metal Sludge using Cement58

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIBased Materials’, Chinese Journal of Environmental Sciences, 17(5), 2005;(iv)‘Removal of Lead from Aqueous Solution using Carbon derived from AgriculturalWastes’, Process Biochemistry 40, 1293-1299, 2005; (v) ‘A Pre Landfill WasteTreatment’, in Proceedings of National Seminar on Environmental Ethics (NSEE),October 2005.Rebecca Jacob, ‘Bond Dissociation Energies and Radical Stabilization EnergiesAssociated with Model Peptide-Backbone Radicals’, Journal of Physical Chemistry(2005), 109 (28), 6318-6325.PAPER PRESENTATIONSINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES/SEMINARS/WORKSHOPSDepartment of EnglishNirmal Selvamony presented papers on (i) ‘Literature, Nature, India: From Tinai toOikocriticism’, Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universitat Dortmund,Germany, November 2005; (ii) ‘Tamil Music Today’, Department of Music,University of Dortmund, Germany November 2005; (iii) ‘A Heaven of Blue Glassand the Jasmine Bower: American and Tamil Paradises’, John F. Kennedy Institut furNordamerikastudien fu Berlin, Abteilug fur Literatur, Berlin, Germany, November2005; (iv) ‘Oikotechnology’, XXI IACS International Conference on CurrentTheories and their Impact on Teaching of Literature, St. Joseph’s College,Tiruchirapalli, February 2006; (v) ‘Water in Contemporary Tamil Literature: AnOikocritical Approach’, 2 nd Biennial Conference of European Association for theStudy of Literature, Culture and Environment, on ‘Water: Literary, Cultural andEnvironmental Perspectives’, Alps-Adriatiric University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Aprilto May 2006; (vi) Delivered a special lecture on ‘Ecocriticism and Oikos: Early TamilLiterature’ at the Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universitat Klagenfurt,Austria, May 2006.Department of HistoryVasanthi Vijayakumar presented a paper on ‘How does change happen? LocatingGender Studies – Trajectory for the Future’, Women’s World 2005: the 9 thInterdisciplinary Congress on Women, EWHA Women’s University, Seoul, SouthKorea, 2005.59

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of Political ScienceW. Lawrence S. Prabhakar presented papers on (i) ‘The Regional Dimension ofTerritorial and Maritime Disputes in South East Asia: Actors, Disagreements andDynamics’, International Joint Research Workshop, Maritime Security in South EastAsia, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs & Institute of Defence and StrategicStudies, Singapore, Oslo, June 2005; (ii) ‘The Regional Territorial and MaritimeDisputes in South East Asia’, International Joint Research Workshop, MaritimeSecurity in South East Asia, NUPI & IDSS, Singapore, November 2005.R. Sridhar presented a paper on ‘Asymmetric Threat of Maritime Terrorism from theSea Tigers of Sri Lanka’, International Conference on Asymmetric Conflicts in theEra of Globalisation, National Defense Academy, Vienna, Austria, December 2005.Department of Public AdministrationWilliam Gnanasekaran presented a paper on ‘Tsunami Tamil Nadu Focus – A Report& Debit Issues in the Indian Caste System’ in an International Seminar on TsunamiRehabilitation and Reconstruction in South Asia organized by the ChristianConference of Asia (CCA) in Meiden, Indonesia, 01 to 05 December 2005.Department of EconomicsC. Selvaraj presented a paper on ‘Securitization of Non-performing Assets’,International Seminar on Business and Finance, Thanjavur, September 2005.Department of PhilosophyM. Gabriel presented papers on (i) ‘Concepts of Existence and Reality’, InternationalConference on Philosophy, Language and Reality: Indian and Western Perspectives,Department of Philosophy, University of Madras, 2005; (ii) ‘A Critique onEnvironmental Holism’, International Conference on Marine and Terrene Ecology,Sea, Land and People, St Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai, 2006.V.M. Spurgeon presented a paper on ‘The Role of Chaplains in Christian Colleges inIndia’, International Conference on Learning Through each other’s Living,Canterbury Christ Church University College, England, 2005.60

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of CommerceCharles Suresh David presented a paper on ‘Foreign Direct Investment in Retailing inIndia’, International Commerce Seminar held at Vimala College, Thrissur, Kerala,January 2006.Department of MathematicsD.G. Thomas, V.R. Dare and T. Robinson presented a paper on ‘Circular languagesand Learning Algorithms’, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pune,December 2005.B. Adolf Stephen presented papers on (i) ‘Contractions of Noshiro-type Subclass ofHarmonic Univalent Functions’, International Conference on Computational Methodsand Function Theory, Joensuu, Finland, June 2005; (ii) ‘A Class of HarmonicMeromorphic Functions with Negative Coefficients’, International Conference onGeometric Function Theory, Special Functions Applications, Pondicherry, January2006.Thomas Rosy presented papers on (i) ‘On Certain Classes of Analytic Functions ofComplex Order’ and ‘Application of Fractional Calculus to Uniformly ConvexFunctions’, International Conference on Computational Methods and FunctionTheory, University of Joensuu, Finland, June 2005; (ii) ‘On a Certain Subclass of K-Uniformly Convex and Starlike Functions Defined by Linear Operator’, InternationalConference on Geometric Function Theory, Special Functions and Applications,Pondicherry, January 2006.K.G. Subramanian presented a paper on ‘Splicing Array Grammar Systems’,International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, Hanoi, Vietnam,October 2005.J. Samuel Cornelius presented a paper on ‘The Role Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) in Modern Fluid Dynamics’, XXII International Congress on History ofScience, Beijing, China, July 2005.Department of StatisticsM. Bagavandas presented papers on (i) ‘Statistical Classification of AuthorshipAttribution: The Case of Tamil Articles’, International Seminar on Literary Genres ofWorld Tamil Literature, Department of Tamil, Dr MGR Janaki College of Arts and61

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIScience for Women, Chennai, November 2005; (ii) ‘Solving Quadratic ProgrammingProblem: A Neural Network Approach’, International Conference on Applications inInfrastructure Development, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, January 2006.Department of ChemistryR. Wilfred Sugumar presented papers on (i) ‘Bio-degradation of Reactive Dyes’International Conference on Recent Advancements in Chemistry, Auxilium College,Vellore Tamil Nadu, January 2006; (ii) ‘Water Quality Studies on Kuttanadu WetlandSystem’, International Conference on Recent Advancements in Chemistry, AuxiliumCollege, Vellore Tamil Nadu, January 2006.R. Joel Karunakaran presented papers on (i) ‘A Novel Synthesis ofIodonaphthalenes’, International Conference on Science and Technology forSustainable Development, St. Berchmans College, Changanassery, Kottayam, August2005; (ii) ‘Electrophilic Aromatic Iodination by I 2 and KBrO 3 ’, InternationalCongress of Chemistry and Environment, International Journal of Chemistry andEnvironment, Indore, December 2005; (iii) ‘An Environment Friendly Procedure forIodination of Aromatic Amines’, International Conference on Recent Advancementsin Chemistry, Auxilium College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, January 2006; (iv)‘Development of Eco-Friendly Method of Preparation of Iodoaromatic Compounds’,International Interdisciplinary Conference on Sustainable Technologies forEnvironmental Protection, Coimbatore Institute of Technology & the University ofToledo, Ohio, USA, Coimbatore 07 to 09 January 2006; (v) ‘A Novel, Water BasedSynthetic Route for the Preparation of Iodo Aromatic Compounds’, IUPAC sponsoredSecond International Symposium on Green / Sustainable Chemistry, Department ofChemistry University of Delhi, Delhi & Department of Chemistry & EnvironmentalSciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Heights, NJ 07102 –1982 (USA) Delhi, January 2006.P.S Raghavan presented a paper on ‘Commutation and comparison of MolecularParameters of Hydrazine and its Derivatives using MNDO, AM1 PM3 Methods’,International Symposium on Spectroscopy and Theoretical Physics, Meerut, February2006.Rebecca Jacob presented a paper on ‘Infrared Absorption Spectra and Structures ofPhenolsulfophthalein Dyes’ Connect 2005, the 12 th RACI National Convention62

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAISydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney NSW Australia,July 2005.Department of Computer ScienceR.S. Milton presented papers on (i) ‘Probability Measures for Prediction in MultitableInformation Systems’, First International Conference on Pattern Recognition andMachine Intelligence, ISI, Calcutta, December 2005; (ii) ‘Studies on Rough Sets inMultiple Tables’, The 10 th International Conference on Rough Sets Fuzzy Sets, DataMining, and Granular Computing, 263-272, Springler – Verlag, 2005.G. Johanna Johnsi Rani presented a paper on ‘Web based Learning Approach toSocially Relevant Higher Education’, ICSSR sponsored International Conference onSocially Relevant Higher Education in India (SRHEI 2006), Cardamom Planters’Association College, Bodinayakanur, February 2006.Department of Chemistry (SFS)A.A.M. Prince presented a paper on ‘Synthesis and Mossbauer Characterization ofLifePO 4 ’, International Conference on Application of Mossbauer Effect, UniversityMontpellier, France, 04 to 06 September 2005.NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CONFERENCES/SEMINARSDepartment of EnglishNirmal Selvamony presented papers on (i) ‘Introduction to Ecocriticism’, UGCsponsored State Level Seminar on ‘Recent Approaches to Modern English LiteraryCriticism and their Impact on Reading and Teaching Practices’, Department ofEnglish, Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirapalli, September 2005; (ii) ‘Poetry asEcopoetry’, UGC sponsored National Conference on Indian Writings in English,Culture and Folk Theatre, Department of English, SDNB Vaishnav College forWomen, Chennai, September 2005; (iii) ‘Oikolinguistics’, National Seminar on thePillars of Vision India: Panini, Bharathrihari and Tolkaappiyar, University of Madras,Chennai, 2005; (iv) ‘From Environmental Aisthesis to Ecopoesis’, NationalSymposium on Environmental Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, Arul AnandarCollege, Karumathur, Madurai, 2005.N. Jeyaselvi presented a paper on ‘Interrogating the Confessional in some IndianWomen Poets Writings in English’, UGC sponsored National Conference on Indian63

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIWritings in English, Culture and Folk Theatre, SDNB Vaishnav College for Women,Chennai, September 2005.Ann Thomas presented a paper on ‘Peripheralizatin of the Black ‘Other’: The Voiceof the Subaltern in Beah Richard’s ‘A Black Woman Speaks’’, National Seminar onSubaltern Studies: The Search for a Collective Locus of Agency and Resistance,Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Kochi, February 2006.Department of TamilMoses Michael Faraday presented papers on (i) Contribution of Zieganbalg to TamilLanguage’ in the National Seminar conducted by TBML College, Porayar, July 2005;(ii) ‘Tamil Devotional Literature’ in the National Seminar conducted by PGP Collegeof Arts and Science, Namakkal , January 2006, (iii) ‘Soumiya Thurai – A CriticalStudy’ in the National conference of all India University Tamil Teachers held inMadurai, May 2006.Y. Gnanachandra Johnson presented a paper on ‘Eezhathyu Pooradanaarin YesuPuranam’ in the Seminar organized by All India University Tamil TeacherAssociation at Madurai, May 2006.S. Balusami, presented a paper on, ‘Environment Approach to the Literature ofNayakka Period’, National Seminar conducted by SRM Arts & Science College,Katankolathur, December 2005.P. David Prabhakar presented a paper on ‘Itaiaccurak Scene in Sangam Literature –Environmental Approach’ in the UGC National Seminar, P.G.P. Arts & ScienceCollege, Nammakkal, January 2006.Y. Paul Prabu Santharaj presented a paper on ‘Silapathikarathil Manudam’, organizedby All India Tamil Teachers Association, May 2006.D. Arul Padmarajan presented a paper on ‘Innasiyin Thirukkural Panigal’ in a seminarorganised by Tamil Department, Madras University, June 2005.R. Gowthaman presented a paper on ‘The Contribution of Febricious in BibleTranslation’, National Seminar organized by International Institute of Tamil Studies,Taramani, January 2006.64

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of LanguagesRavindra Nath Singh presented a paper on ‘Napani Kahani me Chitrit Aaj KeSushikshit Yuvati’, (Short story on modern educated girls), State Level Seminar inHindi, JBAS College for Women, Chennai, January, 2006.Department of HistoryP. Rukmani Sampathkumar and V. Chitra presented a paper on ‘Secularism andNation Building: The Challenges’, Seminar on Secularism and Nation Building,Islamiah College, Vaniyambadi, January 2006.C. Joseph Barnabas presented a paper on ‘Secularism and Nation Building in India’,UGC Sponsored National Level Seminar, Islamiah College, Vaniyambadi, VelloreDistrict, Tamil Nadu, 22 & 23 January 2006.V. Chitra presented papers on (i) ‘Post Tsunami Experience: A Case Study onMahabalipuram’, State Level Seminar on Archaeology, Art and History of SouthIndia, Lady Doak College, Madurai, August 2005; (ii) ‘Women and Mental Health’,National Seminar on Relocating Gender Identity, Women, Culture and Society inIndia, Centre for Women Studies, Pondicherry University, 23 to 25 February 2006.Department of Political ScienceJ. Ramesh Sundar presented papers on (i) ‘Religion and Terrorism’, National Seminaron Terrorism: Socio, Economics, Psychological Political, Cultural and ReligiousDimension, Annamalai University, February 2006; (ii) ‘Panchayat and PovertyReduction – on overview’ in the National Seminar on Pappapatti Syndrome –Panchayats in Action: Emerging Forms and Issues, Annamalai University, TamilNadu, India, 05 to 07 April 2006; (iii) ‘Self – Help Groups and Bank Linkages’ in theNational Seminar on Self-Help Groups and Socio-Economic and Political Changes inIndia, at the Presidency College (Autonomous), Chennai, 27 & 28 March 2006.W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar presented papers on (i) ‘Combating Terrorism andWeapons of Mass Destruction’, VII National Level Course for Executives andUniversity Teachers, An Integrated Approach to Knowledge and Information,National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc Campus, Bangalore, 2005; (ii) ‘TheUnited States in South Asia: Issues and Capabilities in Extra-regional Intervention’,National Symposium on the Regional Security Order in South Asia: Issues of Debate,65

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIStella Maris College, Chennai, December 2005; (iii) ‘India, Pakistan and China:Templates of Territorial and Boundary Disputes – Issues in Convergent Security’, IXNational Level Course for Executives and University Teachers, National Institute ofAdvanced Studies, IISc Campus, Bangalore, January 2006; (iv) ‘Changing SecurityEnvironment and Implications for Indo-US Cooperation’, National workshop onChanging Contours of Indo-US Relations, National Institute of Advanced Studies,Bangalore, February 2006, (v) ‘Major Milestones and Turning Points and theirImplications for the Future of India-US Relations’ in National Workshop onChanging Contours of Indo-US Relations, National Institute of Advanced Studies,IISc Campus Bangalore February, 2006S. Sudha presented papers on (i) ‘Root Causes of Terrorism – An Overview’, NationalSeminar on Terrorism: Socio, Economic, Psychological, Political, Cultural andReligious Dimension, Annamalai University, February 2006; (ii) ‘Self Help Groupsand Tribal Development’ at National Seminar on Self Help Groups and Socio,Economic and Political Changes in India’ organized by Department of PublicAdministration, Presidency College, Chennai, 27 & 28 March, 2006.J. Diviyan presented papers on (i) ‘Cyber–terrorism: its Implications on PublicInformation System’, National Seminar on Terrorism: Socio, Economic,Psychological, Cultural and Religious Dimension, Annamalai University, February2006; (ii) ‘Israel and West Asian Studies’, National Seminar, University of Madras,sponsored by the UGC, March 2006.P. Priyanand presented a paper on ‘Root Causes of Terrorism – An Overview’,National Seminar on Terrorism: Socio, Economic, Psychological, Political, Culturaland Religious Dimension, Annamalai University, February 2006.Department of Public AdministrationT. Johnson Sampathkumar presented papers on (i) ‘Information andTelecommunication Technologies and Rural Development’, two day NationalSeminar organized by the Centre for Public Affairs, University of Madras, 23 & 24February 2006; (ii) ‘Decentralized Democracy and Constraints in Empowering theWeak’: A Study on Keeripatti and Pappapatti Village Panchayats, two day Nationalseminar organized by the Department of Political Science, Annamalai University, 05& 06 April, 2006.66

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of EconomicsMerlin Isaac presented a paper on ‘The Effect of Globalization on External Debt’,UGC sponsored National Seminar on the Performance of External Sector, Departmentof Economics, Arul Anandar College, Madurai, December 2005.A. Annadurai participated and presented a research paper on ‘Maize Production andMarketing in the Globalization Era’ in the National Seminar on Prospects andProblems of Indian Agriculture in the Era of Globalization’, organized by theDepartment of Economics, Erode Arts College, Erode, 22 & 23 September 2005.Department of PhilosophyM. Gabriel presented papers on (i) ‘The Contribution of Ramanuja to VedantaPhilosophy’, National Conference on the Philosophy of South Indian Saints,Department of Comparative Dravidian Literature and Philosophy, DravidianUniversity, 2005; (ii) ‘The Culmination of Religious Experience in Kierkegaard andRamanuja’, National Seminar on the Contemporary Relevance of the Philosophy ofVedanta, Department of Philosophy, University of Kerala, 2005; (iii) ‘The Role ofReligion Today – Some Reflections’, National Seminar on the Relevance ofPhilosophy Today, Department of Philosophy, Satya Nilayam Research Institute,Chennai, 2005; (iv) ‘Ethics and Management’, National Seminar on Ethics for theNew Millennium, Department of Philosophy, Annamalai University, 2005; (v)‘Gandhian Concept of Education – New Directions’, National Seminar on IntegratedEducation and its Perspectives, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, 2005; (vi)‘Sartre’s Defence of Existentialism and Humanism’, National Seminar on the Life andPhilosophy Today, Department of Philosophy, Satya Nilayam Research Institute,Chennai 2005; (vii) ‘We and our Environment – Some Challenges’, National Seminaron Environmental Ethics’, Periyar Centre for Environment and Energy Management,Peiyar Maniammai College for Women, Thanjavur, 2005; (viii) ‘Does Science give usknowledge?’, National Seminar on Knowledge and World, Sree SankaracharyaUniversity of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala, 2006.S. Mathivanan presented a paper on National Seminar on Computing and Philosophy,organized by the United States Educational Foundation in India and Stella MarisCollege, Chennai, 2006.67

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIP. Joseph Sathiaraj presented a paper on ‘Organizational Development throughCommitment of Faculty’ in the National Seminar organized by Asian ChristianHigher Education Institute, Hong Kong and Christ College, Bangalore, 08 to 10 May2006.V. Murugaiyan presented a paper on ‘Radhakrishnan’s Ethical and ReligiousApproach for World Peace’, National Conference on Ethics in the New Millennium,Department of Philosophy, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, 2005.K. Joshua presented papers on (i) ‘Postmodernism: A Foundationalist Critique’-Symposium delivered at the Indian Philosophical Congress held in North BengalUniversity, Siliguri, 21 to 24 October 2005; (ii) ‘Cognitive Science and its Relevancefor Philosophy’, National Seminar, Andhra University, Waltair, 2006.Kumari Sunitha V. presented papers on (i) ‘Existentialism – a Preface’, Departmentof Malayalam, University of Madras, Chennai, 2006; (ii) Presented a case at theRound Table discussion on ‘Muslim as Minority – A Philippino Case Study’, byGhisline Loyre, Institute for South East Asian Studies, France, organized by theCentre for Islamic Studies, University of Madras, 2006; (iii) ‘Heidegger’s Philosophy– an Outlook’, Department of Malayalam, University of Madras, 2006; (iv) ‘Mediaand Philosophy’ in the one-day National Seminar on Media Culture and Politics,organized by the Department of Malayalam, University of Madras, Chennai, March2006.Department of CommerceJohn Suriya Kumar presented a paper on ‘Behavioural Analysis in Bank – CustomerRelationship’ and ‘Emerging Consumerism – Challenges in the Readymade GarmentIndustry in the Post Multi-fiber Agreement Era’, National Seminar, Department ofCommerce, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli.S. John Gabriel presented a paper on ‘Elections in India and the Indian bureaucracy inthe Context of Economy, Efficiency and Effectiveness’, at National Seminarconducted by Department of Politics and International Studies, PondicherryUniversity, March 2006.Tamilarasi Mailachalam presented a paper on ‘Managing Stress among ITProfessionals’, UGC sponsored National Seminar on Information TechnologyIndustry, Erode Arts College, Erode, September 2005.68

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAITabitha Durai presented a paper on ‘Marketing of Festival Tourism – Role of TTDC’,Seminar on Marketing Strategy and Techniques, St Joseph’s College of Arts &Science, Cuddalore, September 2005.Department of MathematicsV. R Dare and K. G. Subramanian presented papers on (i) ‘Partial Finite Automatafor Pattern Matching’, Third National Conference on Mathematical andComputational Models, December 2005; (ii) ‘Reconcilability of ISO PictureLanguages by Domixo Systems’, Third National Conference on Mathematical andComputational Models, December 2005.D. G. Thomas presented a paper on ‘Generation of Circular Words using ContextualGrammars’ and ‘Generation of Rectangular and Hexagonal Arrays using Arrau TokenPetrinets’, National Conference on Intelligent Optimization Modeling, GandhigramRural Institute, March 2006.D. G. Thomas and V. R Dare presented papers on (i) ‘Infinite Words Obtained byCooperating Distributed Grammar System’; (ii) ‘Sub-array Complexity of PartialArrays’, National Conference on Intelligent Optimization Modeling, GandhigramRural Institute, March 2006.P. J. Abisha and D. Jayaseelan Samuel presented papers on (i)‘A Public KeyCryptosystem based on Chain Code Pictures’, one day Seminar on Applications ofMathematics, SIVET College, Chennai, 2005; (ii) ‘Public Key Cryptosystems andLine Pictures’, Seminar on Mathematics and its Applications, Madras ChristianCollege, Tambaram, 2005.K. G. Subramanian presented papers on (i) ‘Parallel Basic Puzzle Grammars’ and ‘AComparison of Two language Classes’, Third National Conference on Mathematicaland Computational Models, December 2005; (ii) ‘Basic Puzzle Grammar System’,National Symposium on Mathematical Methods and Applications, IIT, Chennai,December 2005; (iii) ‘External Contextual Grammar System’, National Symposiumon Mathematical Methods and Applications, IIT, Chennai, December 2005; (iv) ‘PSystems Generating Rectangular Arrays’, UGC sponsored State Level Seminar onMathematical Methods and Fuzzy Applications, February 2006; (v) ‘Array P Systemsand Basic Puzzle Grammars’ and ‘Rectangular Array Rewriting P Systems’, National69

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIConference on Intelligent Optimization Modelling, Gandhigram Rural Institute,March 2006.M. K. Viswanath, presented a paper on ‘Security Aspects of the Elgamal DigitalSignature Scheme with Zero Knowledge Proof’, National Conference on IntelligentOptimization Modeling, Gandhigram Rural Institute, March 2006.Department of StatisticsM. Bagavandas presented papers on (i) ‘Computational Authorship using NeuralNetwork’; and ‘Solutions of System Linear Equations: A Neural Network Approachusing MATLAB’, UGC-SAP (DRS), National Conference on Computing andMathematical Modeling, the Gandhigram Rural University, Gandhigram, Dindugal,2005; (ii) ‘Authorship Determination: A Neural Network Approach using MATLAB’,XXIII Conference of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, BangaloreUniversity, December 2005.R. Chandrasekaran presented a paper on ‘Statistical Analysis of Customer Preferenceson Motor-bike Characteristics’, 25 th Conference of Indian Society for Probability andStatistics and Annual Meeting of Indian Bayesian Society, Bangalore University,Bangalore, December 2005.Bala Srinivasan presented a paper on ‘An Inventory Model for Deteriorating Itemswith Price Dependent Demand Rate’, 25 th Conference of Indian Society forProbability and Statistics and Annual Meeting of Indian Bayesian Society, BangaloreUniversity, Bangalore, December 2005.Bala Srinivasan and E. Joanna Kezia presented papers on (i) ‘An Inventory Model forDeteriorating Items with Stock Department Demand Rate’, 25 th Conference of IndianSociety for Probability and Statistics and Annual Meeting of Indian Bayesian Society,Bangalore University, Bangalore, December 2005; (ii) ‘An EOQ Model forDeteriorating Items having Demand Rate Dependent on Stock Level’, NationalConference on Recent Trends in Statistical Methodologies, Department of Statistics,Presidency College, March 16 & 17, 2006.G. Manimannan and M. Bagavandas presented a paper on ‘AuthorshipDetermination: A Neural Network Approach using Mat Lab’, paper presented at the25 th Annual Conference of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS),Bangalore University, 28 to 30 December, 2005.70

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of PhysicsS.I.A Philomin Raj, presented a paper on, ‘Alpha Emission of Super-heavyRadioisotopes’, Nuclear Physics Symposium, conducted by the DAE at BARC,Mumbai, December 2005Department of ChemistryR. Wilfred Sugumar presented papers on (i) ‘Spectroscopical and ElectrochemicalStudies on the Interaction of Quercetin with Al(III)’, UGC sponsored National levelconference on Recent Trends in Chemistry of Biologically Interesting Compounds,VHNSN College Virudhunagar, July 2005; (ii) National symposium on ‘Pedagogy ofService-Learning’ sponsored by UBCHEA, Stella Maris College Chennai, September2005; (iii) ‘Solidification and Stabilization – A Pre-Landfill Waste Treatment’,National Seminar on Environmental Ethics (NSEE), Environmental Technology,PMC Tech College, Tanjavur, October 2005; (iv) ‘Synthesis and Spectralinvestigation of Quercetin – Al (III) Complex’, UGC and United Board for ChristianHigher Education in Asia sponsored National Seminar in Stella Maris College,Chennai, January 2006.R. Joel Karunakaran presented papers on (i) ‘Bio-assay Guided Isolation andIdentification of Antioxidnat Compounds from Coleus Aromatics’, UGC sponsoredRETCHEMBIC – 05, VHNSN College Virudhunagar, July 2005; (ii) ‘Kinetics ofOxidative Iodination of Naphthalenes’, UGC sponsored National Seminar: NewPerspectives on Eco-friendly Chemical Technology, V.V. Vanniaperumal College forWomen, Virudhunagar, September 2005; (iii) ‘Eco – friendly of Procedure forIodination of Hydroxy Aromatic Compounds’, UGC sponsored National Seminar:New Perspectives on Eco-friendly Chemical Technology V.V. VanniaperumalCollege for Women, Virudhunagar, September 2005; (iv) ‘Synthesis andCharacterization of Biologically Active Iodoquinols’, UGC sponsored NationalConference on Medicinal Plant Chemistry, N.G.M College, Pollachi, September2005; (v) ‘A New, Water Solvent Method for the Iodination of Activated Arenes’,National seminar on Current Trends in Green Chemistry at SRM EngineeringCollege, Chennai, 2006; (vi) ‘An Efficient Environmental Friendly Procedure for theIodination Of Aromatic Amines and Phenols’, National seminar on Current Trends inGreen Chemistry, SRM Engineering college, Chennai, 2006.71

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIK. Mohandoss and P. Wilson presented a paper on ‘Spectroscopic Characterization ofActivated and Spent Nanocrystalline Magnesia Supported Chromia Catalysts preparedby Sonochemico-Aerogel Route’, State level Seminar on Recent Trends in Chemistry– CHEMLINKS 2006, New College, Chennai, January 2006.P.S. Raghavan presented papers on (i) ‘A New Chitin Derivative as an EfficientHeavy Metal Adsorbent’, National Seminar on New Vistas in Chemistry – Moleculesto Materials, Anna Adharsh College, Chennai, 19 August 2005; (ii) ‘Adsorption ofCr(VI) by Newly Synthesized Chitim Derivatives – Kinetics and EquilibriumStudies’, Nagarajuna University, Andhra Pradesh, January 2006.P. Wilson presented a paper on ‘Supercritical – Microemulsion Route for theSynthesis of SBA-15 and MCM-41 Supported Nanoscale Metal Sulphides’, StateLevel seminar on Recent Trends in Chemistry – Chemlinks-2006, New College,Chennai, January 2006.Shyamala Lionel presented a paper on ‘Spectroscopy and its Applications’ organisedby Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore held at Kongunadu Arts and ScienceCollege, Coimbatore, 2005.T. Jaba Priya presented papers on (i) ‘Spectroscopical and Electrochemical Studies onthe Interaction of Quercetin with Al(III)’, UGC sponsored National Level Conferenceon Recent Trends in Chemistry of Biologically Interesting Compounds, VHNSNCollege, Virudhu Nagar, July 2005; (ii) ‘Studies on Computer Assisted Drug Design’at National Institute of Technology, ‘Tiruchirappalli, September 2005; (iii)‘Cheminformatics and Drug Design’ at National Institute of Technology,Triuchirapalli, September 2005; (iv) Synthesis and Spectral Investigation ofQuercetion – Al(III) Complex’, UGC and United Board for Christian HigherEducation in Asia sponsored National Seminar on Molecular Spectroscopy andReaction Dynamics, Stella Maris College, Chennai, January 2006.Department of BotanyP. Joel Christopher presented a paper on ‘Physiology of Seed Germination in NativeTrees and Shrubs of Tropical Dry Evergreen Forests’, XII National Seed Seminar onProsperity through Quality Seed, Indian Society of Seed Technology, New Delhi andAcharya NG Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, February 2006.72

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of ZoologyManu Thomas Mathai and Mohan Daniel presented a paper on ‘Comparative Studieson the Genital and Sub-Genital Abdominal Segments of Five Species Five Species ofDragonflies (Anisoptera: Odonata)’, VII South Asian Symposium on Odontology andRecent Trends in Zoology, Nagpur, January 2006.Manu Thomas presented a paper on ‘A Study on Fluctuation Asymmetry in the Wingsof Plantala Flavescens (Fabricius)’, VII South Asian Symposium on Odontology andRecent Trends in Zoology, Nagpur, January 2006.Department of Chemistry (SFS)A.A.M. Prince presented a paper on ‘Solidification and Stabilization – a Pre-landfillWaste Treatment’, National Seminar on Environmental Ethics (NSEE),Environmental Technology, PMC Tech College Tanjavur October 2005.Carmalin Sophia presented papers on (i) Solidification and Stabilization of TanneryWaste, UGC sponsored National Seminar: New Perspectives on Eco-FriendlyChemical Technology, V. V. Vanniaperumal College for Women, Virudhunagar, 13to 15 September 2005; (ii) ‘Stabilization & Solidification – A Pre Landfill WasteTreatment’, National Seminar on Environmental Ethics (NSEE), EnvironmentalTechnology, PMC Tech College Tanjavur, October 2005.Department of Computer ScienceG. Johanna Johnsi Rani presented a paper on ‘Effective Requirement Engineering’,AICTE sponsored National level Conference on Software Engineering, Sacred HeartCollege, Tirupattur, September 2006.Feminna Sheeba presented the paper on ‘ICT – Soft Skills Development in CollegeStudents through the Media’, in ‘Campus 2010’, National Seminar on Informationand Communication Technology with Human Face, Loyola College, Chennai,February 2006.Department of Business AdministrationPrince Jason presented a paper on ‘Indian Multinationals Opportunities andChallenges’, National Level Conference, SRM Deemed University, February 2006.73

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of MicrobiologyI. Kannan, Chaired a scientific session at the ‘IV National Conference of IndianAssociation of Applied Microbiologists’, held in MGM College of Science, Hosur,January 2006.V. Mahalakshi, Preethi Jayakumar, K.V. Premkumar and K. Rohini, faculty membersof the department, presented scientific papers in the IV National Conference of IndianAssociation of Applied Microbiologists, held in MGR College of Science, Dr. IKannan chaired a scientific session in this conference, Hosur, January 2006.LECTURES / RESOURCE PERSONSDepartment of EnglishV. Rajagopalan, (i) Invited by the NAAC to be resource person to the Conference on‘Best Practices in Higher Education’, conducted for the Principals of Karnataka Stateat the Bangalore University Campus, July 2005; (ii) Delivered a talk on ‘RemoveGender Inequality and Restore Gender Equality’ organized by the Service andResearch Foundation of Asia on Family & Culture, Chennai – an NGO in specialconsultative status with ECOSOC of the UN; (iii) Gave a Radio Talk on ‘Musings onLife with reference to Gray’s Elegy Written in the Country Church Yard’, February2006.Manohar Samuel, (i) ‘Relevance of Communication Skills in Today’s World’,Inaugural Address for the Literary Association, Easwari Engineering College,Chennai, 28 September 2005; (ii) Chairperson, National Workshop on EffectiveSecond Language Learning, Department of English and Foreign Languages, SRMEngineering College, Kattankullathur, 05 & 06, April, 2006.Stephen Jebanesan, Delivered invited lectures in Advanced Writing Skills, ESL atConcordia College, New York, May 2006.Nirmal Selvamony, (i) Delivered the Keynote Address on ‘Ecocriticism’ at theNational Conference on Current Theories and their Impact on Teaching of Literature,St Joseph’s College, Tiruchirapalli, February 2006; (ii) Moderator, RamachandraGuha’s session on History and Literature, workshop on Literature Teaching,organized by the British Council, Chennai, at Stella Maris College, Chennai, July2005; (iii) Resource person at the Consultative Workshop on the preparation of a74

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAITamil Prose Reader, Mozhi Trust, Chennai, June 2006 and also at the ConsultativeWorkshop on Folklore Teaching, National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, June2006; (iv) Response to Venkatachalapathy’s paper ‘The Making of the Literary Canonin Colonial Tamil Nadu’, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai; (v)Delivered Presidential Address on ‘An Ecociritical Approach to Nayak Art’, Seminarcum-workshopon Mural Paintings; Significance and Conservation, jointly sponsoredby Government Museum, Chennai and Centre for Plants, People and Environment,Chennai, October 2005; (vi) Delivered lecture on ‘Contemporary South Asian Poetry’for students from Earlham College, Indiana, USA, at Women’s Christian College,Chennai, September 2005; (vii) Conducted class on ‘Ecocriticism to Oikopoetics’,Refresher Course in English, Department of English, Pondicherry University, 2005;(viii) Resource person at the ‘Music and Culture’, Good Earth School,Naduveerappattu Chennai, June 2005; (ix) ‘Tolkaappiyam and Semiotics’, a series offive sessions in Course in Semiotics, held at Kamatak University, Dharwad, organizedby the Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysore, January 2006; (x) Delivered aRadio Talk on ‘Sleep in English Literature’ (in Tamil) Ilakkiyac Coolai Chennai A,All India Ratio, 12 February 2006.Mekala Rajan, Co-organizer and Resource Person for the Workshop on ‘TeachingMethods’ for Scripture Instructors at Sarah Tucker College, Tirunelveli, 31 March2006.Department of TamilG. Rajendran, Lecture delivered on ‘The Light Thrown by Tamil on WorldLanguages’, Devaneya Pavanar District Central Library, Chennai, 3 rd Sunday everymonth, from 2005 – 2009.Y.Gnana Chandra Johnson, Lecture delivered on ‘H.A. Krishnappillai Padaippugal’ inUniversity College Thiruvanadapuram, 2006.S. Balusami, (i) Delivered Adhilakshmanan Endowment Lectures on the Works ofPudumaipithan and Bharathiyar in the Bombay Tamil Sangam, Mumbai, December2005; (ii) Endowment Lecture on Performing Arts in Nayak Period ThroughSculpture, Pammal Sambanda Mudhgaliyar Endowment, Department of Tamil,Madras University, Chennai, 2006; (iii) Endowment Lecture on Bharathi and Siddhas,Anandaraga Krishnasamy Amsammal Endowment, Puducherry Central University,75

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIPuducherry, 2006; (iv) Endowment Lecture on Aspects of Siddhas Philosophy inBharathi’s Words, Bharathiyar Endowment, Department of Tamil, Madras University,Puducherry, 2006.P. David Prabhakar, (i) Resource person at the State Level Workshop on Curricula forB.Litt and B.A Tamil organized by the Tamil Nadu State Council for HigherEducation, Chennai; (ii) Delivered a lecture on ‘Western Literary Tradition in Tamilliterature’ in the UGC Refresher Course for College Teachers organized by School ofIndian Languages, Tamil University, Tanjavur, 26 September 2005; (iii) Delivered alecture on ‘The Role of Multi-Media in Language Teaching’ in the in-service trainingprogramme for Tamil Teachers organized by Sri Saratha College of Education,Salem,19 October 2005.Department of Political ScienceJ. Ramesh Sundar, H. Crosby Vijayakumar, W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar and R. Sridhargave lectures to the students of Elmhurst College, USA, while in MCC, January 2006.W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar, (i) ‘Plenary Lecture Technology and Terror: TheEmergent Paradigm’, International Conference on Technological Explosion and itsPsychosocial Impact, JBAS College, Chennai, January 2006; (ii) ‘India-Pakistan-China: Looking for Convergence’, UGC- National Institute of Advanced Studies,Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, 06 January 2006; (iii) PanditJawaharlal Nehru Endowment Lecture, ‘India’s Rising Power in the Twenty-firstCentury’, Department of Sociology, Loyola College, February 2006.Department of Public AdministrationKingsley A. Chandrasekaran organized and coordinated a programme in MCC on‘Indian Business and Culture’ for the students of the Center of Business andEconomics, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL, USA, January 2006.Department of EconomicsC. Selvaraj, S. Adeline and A. Annadurai participated as resource persons in theworkshop on Syllabus Revision for UG Programme organized by the Tamil NaduState Council for Higher Education, Chennai, December 2005.A. Duraisamy conducted a HR Soft Skill Development and Training programme atthe Department of Business Administration, Ethiraj College, Chennai, January 2006.76

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of PhilosophyM. Gabriel, (i) Lecture on ‘The Relevance of Philosophy’ in the ContemporarySociety at Satya Nilayam Research Institute, Chennai, September, 2005; (ii)Delivered a lecture on ‘the Philosophy and Religious Principles in Gandhian Thought’to the students and faculty of Elmhurst College, Illinois, USA, November 2005; (iii)Lecture on ‘The Philosophy of Education’ to the Teachers’ Training Faculty, MCCCampus School, Chennai, 2005; (iv) Was a resource person to deliver series ofLectures on ‘Aristillian Ethics, Kantian Ethics and Applied Ethics’ to the faculty ofICPR Refresher Course on Ethics and Applied Philosophy, Academic Staff College,University of Kerala, Kerala, 2006.S. Mathivanan, lecture on Architecture to Iconography: A Study of Mamallapuram,UGC sponsored National Seminar on Indian Philosophical Heritage: AReunderstanding, organized by the Vivekananda College, Chennai, 2006.P. Joseph Sathiaraj, lecture on ‘Origin and Development of Hinduism and IndianPhilosophical Systems’, January Term Programme on Indian Business and Culture ofElmhurst College in MCC, 2006.K. Joshua, (i) Symposium Lecture on ‘Radhakrishnan and Christianity’ at the OxfordCentre in Mission Studies, Oxford, July 2005; (ii) A lecture on ‘Post-modernism: AFoundationist Critique’, Indian Philosophical Congress, North Bengal University,Siliguri, October 2005; (iii) ‘The Relevance of Christian Apologetics in the IndianContext’, Summer Institute in Oxford and Cambridge Universities, July 24 to August06, 2005.V.M. Spurgeon, (i) Lecture on ‘Caste System’, Department of Anthropology,Davidson College, North Carolina, October 2005; (ii) ‘Pluralism in India’, StudentCentre, Davidson College, North Carolina, USA, 2005.Department of Social WorkMiriam Samuel, (i) Panelist at the Conference on ‘Forced Labour – An Illusion orReality’, organized by the International Justice Mission, Chennai in collaboration withthe Department of Social Work, MCC, 12 December 2005; (ii) Resource person, forthe mothers program of the Rural Development Project of YWCA, Chennai, 30January 2006; (iii) Chief Guest, International Women’s Day, organized by the RuralDevelopment Project of YWCA, Chennai, 13 March 2006; (iv) Chief Guest, Annual77

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDay, Scared Heart Matriculation School, Chennai, 24 March 2006; (v) SpecialInvitee, Workshop on Restructuring and Updating of Syllabi of Occupational Courses,(Funded by UBCHEA) organized by MCC School of Continuing Education, 25March 2006; (vi) Key Note address on ‘Community Based Research for SustainableDevelopment’ organized by Academy for Disaster Management, Education, Planning& Training, Chennai, 27 March 2006.Prince Annadurai conducted a Training programme to the student leaders onCommunication on the Prevention of HIV/AIDS for the organization SPW (StudentsPartners Worldwide), Vellore, 30 July, 2005Prince Solomon, (i) conducted workshops on ‘Counselling and Communication’,Gingee ADP, World Vision; (ii) ‘Capacity Building for Tsunami Project for CatholicRelief Services’, Chennai; (iii) ‘Transactional Analysis and Leadership’ forCompassion International;(iii) ‘Integrity and Motivation’ for Leeds, Chennai; (iv)‘Skill Training for Children’s Club, Leadership Development, Team Building’ forStudent Partnership Worldwide; (v) ‘Emotional Competence’, Project ConcernInternational, Ooty, 2005; (vi) Resource person in Christian Teachers’ Conferenceorganized by the Evangelical Teachers Fellowship, 2005; (vii) Delivered lectures on‘Right to Water’, Western Volunteers in Students Partnership Worldwide, India and‘Responsibility of Youth’ in various NSS units of Kancheepuram District.Department of MathematicsV.R. Dare gave Invited Talks on (i) ‘Recent Developments in Automata Theory’,National Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory for ComputerScience, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Sacred Heart College,Tirupattur, July 2005; (ii) ‘Algebraic Aspects of Automata Theory’, National Seminaron Advanced Techniques in Applied Mathematics, Meenakshi College, Chennai,September 2005; (iii) ‘Automata and Semi-groups’, State Level Conference onRecent Developments in Applied Mathematics, Jayaraj Annapakkiam College forWomen, Periakula, September 2005; (iv) ‘Rewriting Systems’, Hindustan College ofEngineering, September 2005; (v) Formal Languages and its Application’,Cybermatics Expo 2006, Holy Cross College, Tiruchirappali, January 2006; (vi)‘Topological Properties of Infinite Words’, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli,78

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIJanuary 2006; (vii) ‘Automata on Infinite Words’, National Symposium on TopicalFashions in Mathematics, February 2006.D.G. Thomas, gave Invited Talks on (i) ‘Applications of Formal languages’, one dayworkshop on Applications of Mathematics in Engineering, Jerusalem College ofEngineering, August 2005; (ii) ‘Regular Languages and Automata’, ValliammaiEngineering College, Kattangulathur, February 2006.T. Robinson delivered a lecture on ‘Mathematics Education for Visually Challenged’,one day Seminar on Education for Visually Impaired held at NKT National College ofEducation for Women, Chennai, 2006.K.G. Subramanian, (i) ‘Formal languages and Applications’, State Level Conferenceon Recent Developments in Applied Mathematics, Jayaraj Annapackiam College forWomen, Periyakulam, September 2005; (ii) Delivered six lectures in QIP Short TermTraining Programme on Research Trends in Formal Language Theory and Automata,IIT, Madras, September – October 2005; (iii) Gave Invited Talks on ‘LindenmayerSystems and Wastson-Crick complementarity’, DST Sponsored Research LevelGroup Discussion on Natural Computing, IIT, Madras, November 2005; (iv)‘Lindenmayer Systems and Applications to Computer Graphics’, UGC sponsoredSeminar on Industrial Mathematics, Islamiah College, Vaniyambadi, November 2005;J. Samuel Cornelius delivered a lecture on ‘Fundamentals of Astronomy’ in theworkshop on Effective Science Technology’, Periyar Science and Technology Centreand Birla Planetarium, February 2006.M.K. Viswanath, (i) Gave a course of six lectures on ‘Differential Geometry’ at theUGC Academic Staff College, University of Madras, November 2005; (ii) Chaired asession in the ninth discussion meeting on Harmonic Analysis at the Harish ChandraResearch Institute, Allahabad, October 2005.Department of StatisticsM. Bagavandas, Resource person for UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Statistics,Academic Staff College University of Madras, Chennai, January-February 2006.R. Chandrasekaran, (i) UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Statistics, Academic StaffCollege, University of Madras, Chennai, January-February 2006; (ii) ‘Rewriting79

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAISchemes and Pattern Generation’, Professor K. Ramakrishna Pillai Memorial Lecturefor the year 2005-2006, St Thomas College, Pala, Kerala, January 2006.Bala Srinivasan, (i) delivered a lecture on ‘Inventory Models’ at VelammalEngineering College, Red Hills, for College Teachers under Faculty DevelopmentProgramme, in Operations Research, November 2005; (ii) was a resource person forUGC sponsored Refresher Course in Statistics, Academic Staff College, University ofMadras, Chennai, January-February 2006.Department of PhysicsG. Kumar Sathian conducted a one-day Workshop on ‘Advanced Microprocessor andEmbedded Systems’, Stella Maris College, Chennai, January 2006.S.I.A. Philomin Raj (i) Resource person in the discussions on Physics Experiments atthe Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi, 2006, (ii) Lecture on ‘Alpha Emission ofSuper-Heavy Radio Isotopes’, Nuclear Physics Symposium conducted by the DAE atBARC, Mumbai, 2005.R. Daniel (i) Resource person in the District level one day workshop ‘ENUNE’(Enrich You With New Experiments) organized by Standard Fireworks RajaratnamCollege for Women, Sivakasi, 08 to 11 July 2005; (ii) Resource person in the Districtlevel one day seminar held at St. Christopher’s College of Education, 13 September2005.Department of ChemistryR. Wilfred Sugumar, (i) Convener of the Workshop, Education Department ofGovernment of Tamil Nadu sponsored Practical Training to PG teachers ofCorporation Schools, organized by Madras Christian College, held at Department ofChemistry, November 2005; (ii) Workshop on Service-Learning Programme and gavelecture on ‘Service-learning Programme’ organized by Madras Christian College,2006; (iii) Delivered a lecture on Wastewater Treatment in Dhanish Ahmed Collegeof Engineering, 10 March 2006.R. Joel Karunakaran, Resource person, Education Department of Government ofTamil Nadu sponsored Practical Training to PG teachers of Corporation Schoolsorganized by Madras Christian College, held at Department of Chemistry, November2005.80

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIP.Krishnan, Resource person, Education Department of Government of Tamil Nadusponsored Practical Training to PG Teachers of Corporation Schools organized byMadras Christian College, held at Department of Chemistry, November 2005.P.S.Raghavan, Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Recent Trends in the Applications ofInfrared Spectroscopy’ in the UGC sponsored State Level seminar on the New Vistasin Spectroscopic Techniques, Islamiah College, Vaniambadi, 20 & 21 August 2005.E. Iyyappan A.S. Prince Edwin Das, Amirthavalli Govindan and T. Jaba Priya,resource persons for Education Department of Government of Tamil Nadu sponsoredPractical Training to PG Teachers of Corporation Schools organized by MadrasChristian College, held at Department of Chemistry, 10 & 11 November 2005.Department of BotanyD. Narasimhan, (i) Delivered lectures for a Refresher Course in Life Sciencesconducted by Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, November 2005; (ii)Delivered a lecture on ‘Plant Drug Resources and Trade’, VISTAS in Plant Medicine,Seminar organized by the Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, NewCollege, Chennai, January 2006; (iii) Delivered a lecture on ‘Angiosperm SpeciesDiversity: Global, National and Regional Scenario’, Seminar on Biodiversity,organized by Government Museum, Chennai, February 2006.C. Livingstone, Delivered Tmt. Keser Chander Endowment Lecture on ‘PlantDiversity of Chennai and the Neighbourhood Districts’, Department of Plant Biologyand Plant Biotechnology, Ethiraj College for Women, January 2006Department of ZoologyS.K. Sunder Raj, (i) Invited lecture on ‘Pollution Threat to Pulicat, Buckingham Canaland Kattupalli Island’, Gandhigram Rural Institute, Dindigul, December 2005; (ii)Invited lecture on ‘Environmental Protection’ Department of Zoology, Queen Mary’sCollege, Chennai, January 2006.Appavu G. Arulnathan, Invited lecture for University teachers on ‘ReproductiveTechnology’, SRM Deemed University of Technology, November 2005.P. Sitarami Reddy, (i) Invited lecture on ‘Recent Trends in Mass Production of Livebearers’,M/s Aqua World, Chennai, October 2005; (ii) Invited special lecture on81

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAI‘Biostatistical Tools in Bioinformatics’, Marshalls Technologies Ltd, Egmore,Chennai, November 2005.R.W. Alexander Jesudasan, (i) Invited lecture on ‘Whitefly Biodiversity(Aleyrodidate: Hemiptera: Insects)’, International Conference on Biodiversity ofInsects: Challenges, Issues in Management and Conservation, Bharathiar University,Coimbatore, January – February 2006; (ii) Invited lecture on ‘Biodiversity ofWhiteflies’, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, December 2006; (iii)Invited lecture on ‘Dimensions of Biodiversity in Whiteflies (Aleyrodidae:Hemiptera), National Conference on Agro Biodiversity, National BiodiversityAuthority, National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai, February 2006.Department of Business Administration (SFS)Armstrong Doss, (i) Awarded Facilitator Certification in Human ResourceDevelopment by CLHRD, Mangalore University; (ii) Member of the facilitators teamthat conducted ‘Feel Employable’ programme for the Kamaraj Engineering College,Virudhunagar.PARTICIPATION BY THE FACULTY MEMBERS IN THE REGIONAL,NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES/ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPSDepartment of EconomicsMerlin Juliet participated in a workshop on ‘Food Security in India’ organized byM.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2006Adeline. S participated in (i) Seminar on Environment, Waste Management andSafety, organized by MCC and Association for Waste Management and Remediationof Environment (AWARE) at BARCF, Kalpakkam in 2006; (ii) workshop on ‘FoodSecurity in India’ organized by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2006.A. Annadurai participated in the 88 th Conference of IEA held at Andhra University,Visakhapatinam, Andhra Pradesh, 27 to 29 December 2005.Department of PhilosophySpurgeon Nesapandian attended the (i) International Seminar on Cross CulturalLearning held in Christ Church College, UK, July 2005; (ii) 23rd InternationalSeminar on Service-Learning held in South Dakota, USA, October 2005.82

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIDepartment of Social WorkRenchy Koshy Verghese attended a UGC sponsored National Conference on‘Children at Risk’, conducted by Rhoda Mistry College, Hyderabad, 29 & 30 July2005.Prince Annadurai, ‘Healthy District Project’, Ethical Committee of Christian MedicalCollege, Vellore, November 2005.Jordana Brooks participated in UGC Sponsored National Conference on ‘Children atRisk’, Rhoda Mistry College, Hyderabad, July 2005.Department of CommerceAnli Suresh, National Seminar on ‘Customer Relationship Management’, AuxiliumCollege, Vellore, August 2005Department of Chemistry (SFS)A. A. M. Prince and Carmalin Sophia A. (i) National Workshop on ‘AdvancedTechniques for Corrosion Studies’, National Corrosion Council of India and AlagappaUniversity, Karaikudi, 05 to 07 January 2006; (ii) Workshop on ‘Service-LearningProgramme’, organized by Madras Christian College, February 2006.83

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIPart CInstitutional plan for 2006-2007International PartnershipsInternational programmes in MCC date back to 1985, and 20 years down the line thenumber of programmes and international visitors to the college has increased. Plansare being made to streamline and enhance international partnerships and review thequality of international programmes.Strengthening and improving the quality of international programmesthrough the creation of the Office of the Dean of International Programmesto streamline the academic collaborations with partner institutions.Planning for the 170 th year celebration of the college.Continuing the work to improve services in the Central Library.Campus Placements:The college plans to place special emphasis on the placement of its students for theacademic year 2006-2007.With a vibrant I. I. I. (Industry-Institution-Interface), proposals have beendrawn up to strengthen the Placement Cell of the college and its functioning.Infrastructural PlansInfrastructural plans for the next year will focus on academic infrastructure andimprovement in amenities for resident students.A proposal has been tabled for an M. Com laboratory with the requirednumber of computer terminals.A proposal has been tabled to build a Recreation Centre for resident womenstudents.84

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIGENERAL INFORMATIONName and Address of the CollegePhoneFaxE-mailMadras Christian College(Autonomous)Tambaram,Chennai 600 059044-22390675044-22394352iqac@mcc.edu.inprincipal@mcc.edu.inName and Address of the Facultymember in-charge of the IQACDr. V. RajagopalanHead of the Department ofEnglishYear of Establishment 1837Type of CollegeStatusWhether the College has been assessedand accredited by NAACIf yes, what is the star or grade awardAided and Self-financingAutonomousYesA+ GradeYear in which assessed 2003 - 200485

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIAcademic Details for the Year 2005-06DescriptionAidedCoursesSelfFinancedCoursesUG (B.A., B.Sc., B.Com., B.B.A, etc.,)Programmes offered (including vocational)PG (including M.B.A. & M.C.A) Programmesoffered16 1115 5PG Diploma, Diploma & Certificate CoursesConducted3 (with UGCAssistance)6+6Total number of candidates applied to all UGcourses4271 1724Sanctioned strength in all UG courses 840 650Students admitted in all UG courses 639 316Total number of candidates applied to all PGcourses1666 295Sanctioned strength in all PG courses 424 162Total number of students admitted in all PGcourses352 151Final year UG candidates appeared for exam 528 229Final year UG candidates passed in the exam 384 123Final year PG candidates appeared for exam 323 119Final year PG candidates passed in the exam 272 91Full-time permanent teachers 136 60Part-time/contract/Guest Lecturers 55 -Teachers with PhD 94 8Conferences / seminars (state, national orinternational only) conducted.3386

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIStudent strength (Number of students studying in 2005 -06) by Gender:COURSE MEN WOMEN TOTALAided - Under GraduateB.A 466 267 733B.Sc. 419 357 776B.Com. 207 85 292Aided - Post GraduateM.A.(Including MSW) 176 138 314M.Sc. 90 211 301M.Com. 30 41 71M.PHIL 24 34 58Total 1412 1133 2574Self-Financed - Under GraduateB.A. & B.B.A 174 31 205B.Sc. 352 169 521B.Com. 154 31 185Self-Financed - Post GraduateM.A. (Including MSW) 65 66 131M. Sc 43 31 74M.C.A 72 19 91Total 788 328 1116Level Aided Self-FinancedMen Women Total Men Women TotalUnder Graduate 1092 709 1801 680 231 911Post Graduate(Includes MCA)296 390 686 180 116 29687

AQAR 2005-2006, MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, CHENNAIMCC SCHOOL OF CONTINUING EDUCATIONPG Diploma, Diploma & Certificate Courses (Including add-on courses)Men Women TotalDiploma in Printing Technology 28 2 30Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology 6 18 24PG Diploma in Medical LaboratoryTechnology7 7 14PG Diploma in computer Applications 2 5 7PG Diploma in Journalism & MassCommunication5 1 6PG Diploma in Business Administration 4 2 6Part time (Morning/Evening) Diploma CoursesDiploma in HRM 10 2 12Diploma in Advertising and Management 8 1 9Diploma in Computer Applications 11 6 17Diploma in Montessori and Primary SchoolTeaching1 6 7Diploma in Bioinformatics 5 2 7Certificate CoursesFinancial Accounting & Tally 3 6 9Diploma in Business Management 2 2 4Diploma in Aquaculture 3 3Grand Total: 2636 (Aided) + 1116 (Self-financed) = 3752An increase of 182 students while compared to last year88