Towards Gender Accountable Education

An opinion piece by Dr. Garimella Sai Ramani Independent India’s foremost achievement, an inclusive education system, is anything but inclusive for women either in content or in the opportunities that it provides for women to join various research fora.  A recent report of the benchmarking study mapping the opportunities and obstacles faced by women in …

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Instructional Workshop on Applied Mathematics

New Delhi: The Department of Mathematics of South Asian University, New Delhi organized a five day workshop “Instructional Workshop on Applied Mathematics” during the second week of May, 2013. The workshop that saw participation from 8 countries had objectives that include training young scientists in the identified topics in Applied Mathematics and acquainting them with …

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A garment May Day

A piece by Dr. Mallika Shakya, Assistant Professor in Dept. of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, SAU in The Hindu Blame the skewed distribution of global apparel quotas, not individual producers or their buyers, for the frequent clothing factory tragedies in Bangladesh Those who have watched the global garment saga swell and decline chaotically in …

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Symposium on Computational Technique and Mathematical Modelling

New Delhi: A two-day symposium on Computational Technique and Mathematical Modelling was held at South Asian University. Intended for young faculty and researchers from Mathematics and Computer Science, the symposium saw student applications for participation from various universities. Prof. Karmeshu, JNU gave the inaugural and keynote address. The session was continued by the lecture of …

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Achievement

Dr. Nirotpal Mrinal, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences and Biotechnlogy, South Asian University has been conferred the INSA Young Scientist Award 2013 for his outstanding research contributions.  The award was instituted in 1974 by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), a premier science Academy in India, with an aim of distinguishing young scientists of extraordinary …

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