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• Prof. MLN Rao has been selected as the USV Chair of IIT Kanpur for a period of three years.

• Prof. S.P. Rath has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Chirality’ published by Wiley, USA.

• Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been invited to serve as an associate editor of the Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry (JHC) published by Wiley-Blackwell (United States).

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been appointed as the Secretary of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).

• Mr. Abhinav Gupta (PhD student of Dr. Nisanth Nair), Ms. Nidhi Sorout and Ms. Deepika (PhD students of Prof. Amalendu Chandra) received PCCP best poster prizes at the Workshop and Symposium on Advanced Simulation Methods: DFT, MD and Beyond (ASM-2019) held at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, during 06-09, March 2019.

• Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been appointed as the Director of IISER Thiruvananthapuram.

• Mr. Bidhan Hazra (PhD student of Dr. Manabendra Chandra) received a ‘best poster award’ for his presentation at the 16th Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS 2019) at BITS Pilani, during February 13-16, 2019.

• Mr. Banshi Das and Ms. Nidhi Sorout (PhD students of Prof. Amalendu Chandra) received ‘best poster awards’ for their presentation at the conference “Dynamics at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology” held at IISc Bangalore during February 18-20, 2019.

• Dr. Sabuj Kundu has been selected for the Young Faculty Research Fellowship of IIT Kanpur.

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for the Goyal prize of Kurukshetra University.

• Prof. J.K. Bera has been awarded the J.C. Bose National Fellowship by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST.

• Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been honored by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) as SPIE Fellow (2019).

• Prof. Manas K. Ghorai has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc).

• Dr. Sarvesh K. Pandey (Ph.D. from Prof. S. Manogaran) has been selected for the "Best Thesis Award - 2019" in Chemical Sciences by the Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (ISCB).

• Dr. Abhijit Mal (Ph.D. from Prof. Manas K. Ghorai) has been chosen for Sailife-NOST Best Thesis Award 2018.

• Inorganica Chemica Acta, a prominent international journal of Inorganic Chemistry, has published a special issue in honor of Prof. R. N. Mukherjee on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Link..

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been invited by ChemBioChem to serve on its Editorial Advisory Board.

• Prof. D. Goswami has been awarded the “2018 ICO Galileo Galilei Award” by the International Commission for Optics.

• Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been selected for the Silver Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).

• Prof. S.P. Rath has been selected for the C N R Rao National Prize in Chemical Sciences instituted by C N R Rao Educational Foundation and Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).

• Mr. Anjani Kumar Pandey, PhD student of Prof. S.P. Rath, has received the best poster award in 23rd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (CRSI-NSC-23) held at IISER Bhopal from 13-15th July, 2018.

• Prof. Vinod K. Singh, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, and Director of IISER Bhopal, has been awarded the Professor Subramania Ranganathan Memorial Medal (2018) of Indian National Science Academy.

• Prof. D. Goswami has been elected as a Fellow of The Institute of Physics (IOP), UK.

• Dr Nisanth N Nair has received the "Distinguished Lectureship Award" by the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), in the field of Theoretical Chemistry, during its 98th annual meeting held in Nihon University, Funabashi, Japan (March 20-23, 2018).

• Dr Basker Sunderaraju has been invited to be a member of Early Career Advisory Board for the journal ACS Catalysis.

• Dr. Pratik Sen, Dr. M. Chandra and Dr. T. G. Gopakumar have been awarded Young Faculty Research Fellowship by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India, for a period of 5 years.

• On the occasion of the Foundation Day celebration of Uttar Pradesh (UP Diwas: January 24, 2018), Prof. Vinod K Singh and Prof. Sandeep Verma have been chosen for felicitation by the Govt. of Uttar Pradesh for their remarkable accomplishments in their profession.

• Prof. Jitendra K. Bera has been invited to join as an Associate Editor of "Applied Organometallic Chemistry" (AOC, Wiley Interscience).

• Mr Saikat Das (Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe), Mr. Hilal Ahmad Pal (Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma), Mr. Bapan Saha (Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath) and Ms. Deepti Kalsi (Supervisor: Prof. Basker Sundararaju) are awarded the best poster awards in the recently concluded Organic Chemistry Symposium at IIT Kanpur.

• Mr. Mrigank Singh Verma, PhD student of Dr M Chandra, has received 'RSC Best Poster Award' at the National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry and Materials (CCM 2017), at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, during Dec 21-22, 2017.

• Mr. Vipin Mishra, Ph. D student in the group of Dr Gopakumar, has received the best paper presentation award at the International Conference on Thin Film (ICTF-17), held during Nov 13-17, 2017, at CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, India.

• Dr. Ashis K. Patra has been awarded HRSMC (Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry) Fellowship at Leiden University.

• Mr. Sagarmoy Mondal (PhD student of Dr. Nisanth Nair) has been awarded the Best Poster Award in CPMD 2017, held at Tsukuba, Japan (Oct 18-20, 2017).

• Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi

• Prof. S.Verma has been selected for the MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Annual Prize of the Materials Research Society of India for the year 2018.

• Prof. J. K. Bera has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.

• Prof. K. Srihari has been awarded the prestigious INSA Teachers Award (2017).

• Prof. Amalendu Chandra and Prof. Sankar P. Rath have been elected as Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India, 2017.

• Prof. D. Goswami has been nominated as a honorable Member, Board of Governors, Uttar Pradesh Textile Training Institute, Kanpur.