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Led by Professor R.C. Sobti, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh, the faculty members, students and university administrative staff celebrated the Environment Day by cleaning the Campus and planting about 700 trees (Ashoka, Palm, Jalebi, Chandani, Cacti etc.,) at such locations as the Children’s Park near the Faculty House, the Rose, the Palm and the Herbal Gardens [...]

The Panjab University contingent comprising of five research scholars namely Sajeela Awasthi and Prerna Aggarwal from Chemistry Department, Ankur Gautam from Department of Biotechnology, Gaganpreet from Physics Department and Mandeep Singh from Department of Chemical Engineering presented their innovative research ideas in the Zonal Level Student Research Convention organised by Association of Indian Universities [...]

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh conferred the “Scientist of the Year Award” on Dr Manjit Singh, Scientist G & Associate Director of Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL), Chandigarh, on 26th May 2010 during Technology Day Award ceremony at New Delhi. The award carried a citation and Rs 1 lakh. An alumni of Department of [...]

The Annual Convocation of the SCD Government College Ludhiana held today and around 900 students were awarded the degrees of B.Com/BA/BSc/M.A and M.Com. The Convocation was started with arrival of the “Academic Procession” which was lead by D.P.I college Punjab Mrs Jasmeet Kaur Nayyar along with the Principal of the College Mrs Jasbir Kaur Makkar. [...]

The dream of the hundreds of research aspirants of Ludhiana district comes true when Panjab University Chandigarh declares SCD Government College Ludhiana as Research Centre to undertake doctorate research in Hindi. Recently Panjab University invited the colleges to get the approval as research centre to under take Ph.D research and a high powered research team [...]

Professor V.C. Srivastava, former Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla delivered the Professor Lakshman Sarup Memorial Lecture on “Buddhism and its interaction with other cultures in Afghanistan” in the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Professor Devendra Handa presided over the lecture. Professor Srivastava highlighted the role of various [...]

The ICSSR North-Western Regional Centre, Chandgiarh in collaboration with UGC-SAP, Department of Political Science, Panjab University is organizing Lecture of Dr. Shibashis Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata on Monday, 19th April 2010 on “Global Power Shifts and Indian Foreign Policy” at 3.00 p.m. at ICSSR Seminar Hall, P.U. Campus. This lecture is being organized [...]

University Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism organised its first week long celebrations which concluded on 17th April 2010 to celebrate its Annual day function. The venue of the functions was English auditorium Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Prof. Lalit K. Bansal the Hony. Director of the institute read out annual report highlighting the various in campus and [...]

World Health Day was celebrated by the Centre for Public Health (IEAST) Panjab University by organizing different activities for students and staff of P.U. A workshop was conducted for security personnel of P.U. to provide them awareness regarding health issues. Prof. U.N. Roy from NITTTER spoke on sustainable Development & Technical Strategies. Dean Science [...]

The XXV Department of Science and Technology’s Science and
Engineering Research Council sponsored School in Theoretical High Energy Physics was inaugurated at Dept. of Physics, P.U. by the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Prof. A.S. Ahluwalia. The School is also sponsored by the Dept. of Physics under the Chairmanship of Prof. M.M. Gupta. [...]

The Second Prof. B.S. Khanna Memorial Lecture was organized by the Department of Public Administration, Panjab University, in collaboration with the Regional Branch of the Indian Institute of Public Administration on 5th April, 2010. The Chairperson, Department of Public Administration, Mr. Sudhir Sharma recounted the accomplishments and academic contributions of the late Prof. B.S. [...]

National Seminar on ”India’s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Problems and Prospect” was organized by Department of Political Science, University School of Open Learning, Panjab University at ICSSR Complex, P.U. Campus here today. In the inaugural function of the Seminar, Prof. R.C. Sobti, Vice-Chancellor, P.U. was
the Chief Guest.
In his inaugural address he [...]

Panjab University today hosted its three day (12-14) 35th Annual Conference of Environment Mutagen Society of India (EMSI) and International Symposium on Mutagens and Genetic Diversity for Health and Agriculture.
Environment Mutagen Society of India (EMSI) was founded in 1975 with a mandate of promoting research toxicity of environment pollutants and disseminating information to the public, [...]

A three day Conference from 6th to 8th March 2010 is being held at P.U. Campus under the aegis of Association of Indian College Principals (AICP) which was inaugurated by H.E. Shri Shiv Raj Patil, Governor, Punjab and Administrator, U.T. Chandigarh. Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources was Guest of [...]

CHANDIGARH: October 23, 2009: Hon’ble Dr. M.S. Gill, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India laid down the foundation stone of Indoor Shooting Range at Panjab University Campus today. He was welcomed by Prof. R.C. Sobti, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University.
Dr. Gill emphasized on the quality education to the school and [...]

World Earth Day was celebrated on the Campus. The Research Scholars, Students and Staff of the Dept. of Environment Studies, Dept. of Social Studies and Dept. of Geology participated in large number. A cleanliness campaign under the leadership of Vice-Chancellor was launched on the campus at 8.30 a.m. An exhibition on the environment awareness was [...]

School of Communication Studies, Panjab University, in collaboration with the ICSSR (North Western region) is holding a regional seminar on the topic Media that Matters: an Industry-Academia Interface at the ICSSR Hall, Panjab University, Chandigarh. The theme for the one day seminar, scheduled for March 30, 2009 from 10.00 am to 4.15 pm, is chosen [...]

Inaugurating a two days Seminar on “ Distance Education – Experiments, Practices and Challenges” at University School of Open Learning, Panjab University, Prof. R.C. Sobti, Vice-Chancellor of the University called for a serious re-appraisal of the aims, objectives and structures of Distance Education in India. He said Distance Education had a pivotal role in the [...]

One-day National Seminar on Public Health was organized by the Centre for Emerging Areas in Science and Technology (CEAST) – Public Health, Panjab University, Chandigarh in collaboration with the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi. While inaugurating the seminar, Chief Guest Prof. R.C. Mahajan, Parasitologist from PGI in his keynote address commented [...]

In the 2nd day of International Conference on “Plant Invasion and Forest Ecology” organized at Panjab University, Chandigarh scientists from India and abroad delivered their talk on various aspects of invasive plants and their effects on ecosystem. Prof. R.R. Rao, Emeritus Scientist from CIMAP, Bangalore delivered his talk on “Usefulness of Alien Weeds”. He discussed [...]

The Roll Nos of the Management Entrance Test 2009 (to be held on 22 march 2009) being conducted by UIAMS department Panjab University Chandigarh have already been despatched to the students. In case the students do not receive the Roll Nos. they can have all the information at the website exams.puchd.ac.in, according to Punjab Newspaper [...]

Dr. Mihaela Gligor, a Scholar from the Romanian Academy “George Baritiu” Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca Romania spoke in the Weekly Seminar of the Department of Sociology on the topic “Mircea Eliade: Life, Religion, Faith.” She discussed the influence of the works of Mircea Eliade on the Philosophy of Religion.
She traced the journey that Eliade took [...]

A 2-day IUFRO-SPDC sponsored training workshop on “Working Effectively at the Interface of Forest Science and Forest Policy” for mid-career /budding and interested ecologists from developing countries is being organized by organized by the Department of Botany in collaboration with Dayanand National Academy of Environmental Sciences in the Golden Jubilee Hall from March 14 [...]

A 21-day Refresher Course in English organized by Academic Staff College, Panjab University began here at the Department of English with the Inaugural Address of Prof. Alok Bhalla, Visting Professor, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi.

Prof. Bhalla pleaded for an inclusive cosmopolitan world-view, which offers us the possibility of composite present. Warning against the pathologies of soil, [...]

The Department of History is organizing a two days Workshop of College and University Teachers in History on Problems and Perspectives of History Teaching (6-7 March). While addressing the workshop in his inaugural speech, the Vice Chancellor Dr. R.C. Sobti maintained that History as a subject is very important for all disciplines, because every subject [...]