Ramadhar Singh, who had served as an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) during 1973-79, was recently honoured with the Purdue University Distinguished Alumni Award in Psychology by the College of Health and Human Sciences at West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Only two psychologists in Purdue's history have been such honourees before him. Singh is currently a distinguished university professor at the Amrut Mody School of Management of the Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Accepting the award on March 25, 2022, he said, “Being recognised with this award makes me fully satisfied with my life journey as a psychological scientist.” We, the faculty and staff members of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, congratulate him and Ahmedabad University on this academic triumph from India!

He remains as active and productive researcher at the age of 76 today as he was at the age of 28 at IIT Kanpur. The department established Prabha and Ramadhar Singh Distinguished Lecture in Psychology in early 2022