The 4th Graduation Ceremony of the National Institute of Science Education & Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, was held at its new sprawling campus at Jatni in a solemn atmosphere on Saturday with the recipients of the degrees vowing to put their knowledge in the service of the nation.
The fourth batch of students of MSc Integrated Programme and the second batch of Doctoral students were awarded the degrees.
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Dr Ratan Kumar Sinha, an internationally acclaimed nuclear reactor technologist and Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, delivered the Convocation Address.
Odisha Chief Secretary Gokul Chandra Pati was the guest of honour while Padma Bhushan Prof SK Joshi presided over the ceremony. Chairman of the Academic Council and Director of NISER Prof V Chandrasekhar presented the degrees to the graduating students and three doctoral candidates.
like their glorious predecessors, who have made their alma-mater resplendent, this year too, the graduating students did remarkably well by scaling dizzy heights of success and are set to carry forward this tradition of excellence.
The graduates are almost spilled over the world to pursue doctoral programmes at reputed universities across the globe such as ENP-Paris, Texas-Austin, Michigan,Wisconsin-Madison,Maryland, Stony Brook, lousiana, Houston, Toulouse, Connecticut, Cologne, South Dakote, IITs,TIFR,NIl, Texas A&M, Ohio, Texas Tech, Washington, California, Manchester, Cambridge, Colorado, South Carolina, Florida Clark, Utah, Minnesota, Arizona State Arozona State, Brandeis and Texas-Arlington.
This emerging scenario reinforces the truth that the NISER is committed to quality education of global standard. This is to state here once again that 59 students from all disciplines have graduated this year. KU Amudhan of the School of Mathematical Sciences was awarded the most coveted gold medal for outstanding overall performances in Mathematics and also Prof Tribikram Pati Memorial Award for outstanding performance in Mathematics.
Jyotisman Sahoo from the School of Physical Sciences, Adyasha Panigrahi from the School of Chemical Sciences and Anurag Priyadarshi from the School of Biological Sciences received the silver medals for best academic performances in their respective schools.
In his address Dr Ratan Kumar Sinha lauded the quality education of the NISER and exhorted the students to carry out research which is the backbone of science education.
Prof Joshi hoped that the new campus would further strengthen the academic atmosphere of the institute. Director of the institute Prof V Chandrasekhar maintained that the knowledge gained by the students is the wealth of the nation which should be applied for its development.
GC Pati reiterated the State Government’s continued support and cooperation for the institute and thanked the Atomic Energy Department for allowing it to be opened here.
Registrar of the institute Dr Abhay Nayak assiduously organised the event systematically under the supervision of the Director.