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• Ms. Nidhi Garg, a graduate student in the research group of Dr. Basker Sundararaju, has been awarded the Raman-Charpak Fellowship 2022 for a four-month research stay in France

• Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been appointed as the Editor in Chief for PeerJ Analytical Chemistry.

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for SMC Gold Medal-2022 of Society of Materials Chemistry (Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai). It will be conferred during 9th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Materials Chemistry (ISMC-2022), at DAE Convention Center, Mumbai (Dec 7-10, 2022).

• Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been elected Member of Faraday Community Council for Physical Chemistry.

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has joined as an International Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Ceylon Journal of Science, Sri Lanka.

• Dr. Prasanta Bandyopadhyay, an IPDF working in the group of Dr. Mainak Sadhukhan, has been awarded a Best Poster Award in the conference “Current Trends in Theoretical Chemistry-2022”, organised by DAE-BRNS at BARC, Mumbai.

• Ms. Swathi Swaminathan (Supervisors: Drs. Manabendra Chandra and Jitendra Bera) has received the Best Poster Award in the Faraday Discussions meeting organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) was held in London during 21 - 23 September, 2022.

• Mr Arghya Sen (supervisor: Dr. Pratik Sen), Ms. Sona Tiwari (Supervisor: Dr. Dharmaraja Allimuthu), Ms Suchismita Ghosh (Supervisor: Dr. Raja Angamuthu) and Ms Shreyasi Banik (Supervisor: Dr. Srinivas Dharavath) received Best Poster Award in the 29th CRSI-NSC meeting held recently at IISER Mohali.

• Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been selected to receive the CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2022 in recognition of his outstanding contributions in Chemistry.

• Professor T. K. Chandrashekar (former faculty) has joined the department as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. He will be spending three months beginning July 01, 2022.

• Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of his significant contributions to the field of Chemical Sciences, in particular on his research on developing catalysts based on earth-abundant metals and their applications in sustainable C-H functionalizations.

• Dr. V G Rao has joined editorial board of ‘Photocatalysis and Photochemistry’, a section of ‘Frontiers in Chemistry’, as an Associate Editor. It publishes original and high-quality research in photocatalysis and related to photochemistry.

• Ms Shreyasi Banik (supervisor: Dr. Srinivas Dharavath) has received best poster presentation award at the 13th International High Energy Materials Conference & Exhibits – 2022, which was held at TBRL-Chandigarh from 26th - 28th May, 2022.

• Dr. Srinivas Dharavath has joined as an editorial board member in the journal Energetic Materials Frontiers, which publishes original basic and applied research in the field of energy materials and fuels.

• Mr. Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Supervisor: Dr. Srinivas Dharavath) has received the best poster presentation award at 28th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry conference, which was held in IIT Guwahati from March 25 - 27, 2022

• Mr. Mrigank Singh Verma, a Ph D student in the department (Supervisor: Dr. Manabendra Chandra), has been awarded AWSAR award (an initiative of DST) for "Best PopularScience Stories under the Ph.D. category". The award carries a cash prize and a certificate.

• Ms Sadhna Shah (Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K Singh) received the best oral presentation award in the XVII J-NOST 2022 conference for research scholars held during 06-09, 2022 and organised by School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad

• Dr. Vishal Govind Rao from the Chemistry Department has been invited to join the Editorial Board of "Communications Materials - Nature"

• Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been selected for the ‘Shri. G. D. Gokhale Endowment Lectureship’ by ICT, Mumbai.

• Dr. Pratik Sen has been selected to receive the CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2022.