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Chandigarh November 8, 2019

The fifth day of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) -Asia Pacific Regional Committee (APRC) supported seminar on the theme ‘Blood-Brain-Barrier: From Basic Physiology to Neurological Disorders’ started with a lecture from Prof. A. B. Pant, CSIR-IITR, Lucknow. He highlighted the significance of ethical standards in the field of research. He also emphasized that key to research is planning, performing, reporting and monitoring of research data.

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Prof. A. K. Mishra, DRDO-INMAS, New Delhi discussed the role of educational growth of the Indian students and also emphasized on the importance of bringing basic sciences to the front line in the area of research. Educating researchers about having a strong methodology and making them realize to prevent the misuse of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) will translate into development of research. Good and ethical research can be in future a return on investment for the country and promote economic growth for India.

Prof. Suresh Kumar Sharma, Department of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, discussed about the statistical tools and techniques that can help researchers in higher reproducibility of their data. He also talked about various software and tools that can help researchers in analyzing their research data.

The session ended with a talk from Prof. Amal Chandra Mondal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on the structure and function of blood brain barrier. He also talked about the ways molecules transport across the blood brain barrier.

The day ended with poster evaluation of the participants.  

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Chandigarh November 7, 2019

 The Department of Biophysics has organized a special lecture “Guru Nanak :  Yug Purush” to commemorate the  550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, by Prof. Ishwar D. Gaur, Department of Evening Studies, Multi Disciplinary Research Centre,  Panjab University, Chandigarh.  He gave very enlightening talk stating that Baba Nanak belongs to all and cannot be fossilized.  He highlighted various names of Baba Nanak used all over the world such as guru, baba, sadh,
darvesh, peer and fakir.  He also mentioned all the historic contributions of Guru Nanak to the audience.

            The Chairperson Dr. Sarvnarinder Kaur thanked Prof. Gaur on behalf of the Department of Biophysics for an enlightening lecture.

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School of Punjabi Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, in association with Punjab Arts Council, Chandigarh organized a
commemorative one-day National Seminar on the occasion of 550th Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Ji on the topic Guru Nanak Bani Chintan : Pratirodh da Sabhiachaar ate Darshnik Samvaad, here today.

            Dr. Jagbir Singh, Delhi University, Delhi in his address said that while Sh Guru Nanak Dev Ji is the first Guru of Sikhs but because of his teachings, ideologies and philosophies he should be called as JagatGuru and Vishavguru).

            Mr. Parminder Sodhi, a Punjabi Poet living in Japan shared the Bani of Sh Guru Nanak Dev Ji.

            Prof. Shankarji Jha, Dean of University Instructions, PU asserted the relevance of Guru Nanak’s Philosophy and Teachings in modern era.

            Prof. Karamjeet Singh, Registrar, Panjab University, Chandigarh described the various dimensions of truth while
contemplating Guru Nanak Bani.

            Dr. Surjit Patar presided over the session and concluded the thoughts of speakers in his own poetic manner.

            Dr. Yog Raj Angrish, Chairperson of the Department expressed his gratitude towards orators and listeners at the end of comprehensive session.

            The Department released Guru Nanak Special issue of the Research Journal PARKH which consists of 25 research articles on various aspects of the text by Guru Nanak.

            Dr. Manjinder Singh from GNDU, Amritsar presented the papers on his studies on the verses of Guru Nanak on anthropological and cosmological levels.  He said that Guru Nanak never opposed either an individual or a group but challenged the false consciousness.  Guru Nanak is in favour of horizontal diversity but disapproves vertical
hierarchy.  In the whole Guru Nanak Bani, what we found is the phenomena of correction not rejection.  Guru Nanak even do not believes in duality of theist or atheist.

            Dr. Manmohan talked about the occurrence of counter discourse with special reference to ‘Sidh Gosat’ Bani.

            Dr. Shivani Sharma from Department of Philosophy, PU presented a paper entitled ‘Shabad as Guru’.  The paper focused on types of expressions used in scriptures.

            Dr. Ominder Singh Johal from Jalandhar described the forms and ways in which the dialogue happened.

            Dr. Jaspal Kaur Kaang gave her observations on the papers presented.  Dr. Lakhwinder Johal, Secretary, Punjab Arts Council, Chandigarh raised a notion about lyrical persona of Guru Nanak.

            Dr. Dharam Singh from GNDU, Amritsar, Dr. Sayed Hassan Abbas from Poonch, J &K and Mr. Des Raj Kali presented their papers in the second session which was Chaired by Dr. Gurpal Singh Sandhu, Dean faculty of Languages, PU.

            Dr. Surjit Singh Bhatti and Dr. Surjit Singh from Punjabi University, Patiala shared their insights about the poetic, objective and subjective highness of Guru Nanak.

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The third day of the ongoing MOOCs workshop was dedicated to the latest methodologies used in e-content development under E-PGP(Post Graduate Programme) and pedagogy and developing online courses with Google. Prof. Jatinder Grover, CALEM Coordinator, PU, and Dr. Vishal Sharma, SWAYAM Coordinator PU, introduced the theme and topics to be discussed on the day three of the seven days workshop for developing MOOCs.

Prof. Vinod K. Garg from Central University of Punjab, Bathinda discussed intricacies of e-PG Pathshala. He informed that there are 22,000 plus modules available for the students for e-learning. He also shared that e-PG Pathshala is free, affordable and provides access of quality self learning study material developed by the subject experts. He also explained that in API the module development carry marks for the promotion of teaching faculty.  He demonstrated the working of
Vidyamitra channel on YouTube and various aspects of SWAYAM website.

            The other sessions were dedicated to Digital Pedagogy and developing online courses with Google and Eliademy respectively by Srinivasa K.G., Prof. (IMCO) from NITTTR, Chandigarh. He shared the importance of Digital pedagogy for developing effective MOOCs. The tools may vary as per pedagogy. He further explained about the other aspects of digital pedagogy viz flipped classroom, blended learning, online education resources, markspace, value based education etc. The MOOC is a very big platform and there are many players in the MOOC, and it is big business nowadays. He also explained the concept of nano-degrees and commercial benefits to educational institutes. He shared that MOOC creators are learning about the learning experience of the learners. The teachers should adopt technology and develop MOOCs for reaching large number of students. He explained the Moodle and Google Classroom for teaching learning process. Besides that the Assessment with the help of Learning Management System (LMS), use of social media, cloud based services, use of mobile phones, setting up of Rubrics for various pedagogies was also discussed in the last academic session.

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Chandigarh November 5, 2019

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Dr Ranjit Singh of  the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Panjab University, Chandigarh has bagged the “PharmInnova Award 2018-19” instituted by the Rajnibhai V Patel Trust under the patronage of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India for most innovative in  Pharmaceutical Chemistry subject in Ph.D.
category.

        He will be awarded with PharmInnova Trophy & monetary prize of Rs.1,00,000/- and his research guide Professor Ranju Bansal will also be felicitated with certificate & monetary prize of Rs. 50,000/-. Dr Ranjit Singh worked on the ‘Synthesis of Novel Neuroprotective Heterosteroids’ for the treatment of neuro inflammation induced neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease under the expert guidance of Prof. Ranju Bansal. Prof. Bansal is actively involved in research on steroids for more than twenty five years. Dr Ranjit Singh is currently working as a Research Associate in UIPS, Panjab University, Chandigarh . With an aim to encourage innovative thinking amongst students, Rajnibhai V Patel Trust instituted the “Pharm Innova Award – Best Thesis in Pharmaceutical Sciences”.
The awards are given to students pursuing their Masters & Doctorate in Pharmaceutical Sciences. The Pharm Innova Awards are sponsored by Troikaa Pharmaceuticals, Ahmedabad in co-ordination with the L M College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad.

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