Department Activities-2014 - On 04 Sep 2014 ‘Bionest’ Science Association was inaugurated by Mr. Syed Samiullah
Head, Professional Systems and counseled the students for their career
development.
- As a part of the extension activity, B.Sc
Advanced Zoology and Biotechnology had a trip to a single teacher school at
Porunthavakkam, Tirunilai and Oragadam in Kanchipuram district on 07-09-2014.
- The motto of this trip is to trigger the
students towards the art of service to the society and encourage them by kindling their interest in higher education.
- Students are exposed to stories of freedom
fighters and fascinating moral tales to be patriotic. Various activities were conducted
to motivate them in curricular and co-curricular activities. Single teacher
school students thriving to explore their talents.
- Our students narrated a real life incident of
Mahatma Gandhi as a moral story for the School children. We distributed
buckets, pens drawing kits and Notebooks to the children and emergency lamps
for the school as a token of enhancing their exertion for academics.
Refreshment items like biscuits, chocolates, etc. were distributed.
- Our students participated and brought laurels
to the college by winning the intercollegiate fest on 09.09.2014 held at Stella
Maris College.
- On 07.08.2014 as part of EVS a field trip was arranged
to Kovalam to gain knowledge about Biodiversity of Rocky Shore Fauna.
- On 23.09.2014 Internal Academic Audit was
conducted at 10.00 a.m. by a expert committee consists of Dr.L.Veerakumari, Associate Professor and Head
PG and Research Department (Non-Autonomous),
Dr.D.Sudarsanam, Professor & Program Coordinator , DST-FIST- Bioinformatics & Principal
Investigator School of genomics, Dept. of Advanced Zoology , Medical Lab
Technology & Bio- Medical Instrumentation Science, Loyola College (Autonomous)
and Dr. C.Rose, Chief Scientist & Chairman, Biology Cluster, CSIR- CLRI,
Adyar. (Research Organization). The faculty of the department has applied a
Major Research Project for the UGC- XII Plan 2014.
- The students of AZBT participated in TECHMED QUEST on October 12th “A State level Talent Search for Life Science Award”
conducted by TechMed Healthcare.
- Our students also successfully took part in
the “Intercollegiate – Interdepartmental
Zoo fest” conducted at Ethiraj College for Women on 20th
November 2014.
- As part of extension activity the LIONS clubs
(Chennai Albert Einstein, Chennai Darwin and Chennai Topaz) organized sports
and cultural activities to encourage the school children in Chennai School at
Puliyur.
- Four students from III AZBT attended an
“Internship Program on Bio-Informatics” conducted by Sri Ramachandra University
from 26- 28th November 2014.
- The department has organized an ‘ALUMNI MEET’
on November 28th 2014 had reminiscence, feedback and unforgettable
memories from stakeholders.
- Dr.R.Maheswari
and K.Padmavathy faculty of our
department attented the Refresher Course in “Life
Sciences” conducted by Academic Staff College, University of Madras in Nov-Dec
2014 was about “Advances in Biosciences
and Drug Discovery”. Eminent resourse persons from various fields gave lectures
on the topics of drug designing and drug
delivery.Other topics includes Cancer therapy, Vaccinology, Applications of Nanotechnology in drug designing, Apoptosis
and Ageing,Medicinal plants in Drug preparation etc.,All the topics were very
much informative and very useful for our curriculum and to motivate the
students to excel well in their examination
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