Indian Academy Degree College – Autonomous, Dept. of Biochemistry visited Government Higher Primary School, Hennur, Bangalore on 23rd August 2017. Students of the department tried to increase the awareness of the menace of Dengue Fever, importance of cleanliness and prevention of road accident.
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INDIAN ACADEMY DEGREE COLLEGE – AUTONOMOUS, Department of Mathematics organized a two day lecture workshop to strengthen undergraduate, postgraduate programs on the topic “Mathematical Analysis & Applications” in association with the “Science Academies of India”, for B.Sc., M.Sc., Mathematics students and the Faculty members from selected colleges in and around Bangalore. It was our pleasure to invite undergraduate, postgraduate students and the faculty of Mathematics from various college to participate in this workshop.
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The fervent strife towards the hopes and dreams, to build a haven for inquisitive learning and visionary research led to the genesis of Indian Academy Educations Institutions .The commemoration of the embarked journey, as a guild united by knowledge is celebrated every year, on 30th August as Founders’ Day. The celebration of knowledge and social conscience is animated with the widely anticipated Inter-Collegiate Debate competition. This year too, it was a grand success with nearly 45 colleges presenting their best students. The Rolling Trophy was bagged by Karan and Aswath of Presidency College. The Second Prize winners were Samson K Sabu and Safwan Rafiq of Kristu Jayanthi College and the Third Prize was won by Suha Tanzeem and Syeda Sara of St. Annes First Grade College. The event was judged by prominent personalities, Mr. G. Ulaganathan, Former Editor-in-Chief Indian Express, Dr. Cheriyan Alexander, Professor Head of Department of English, St.Josephs College (Autonomous), Bangalore and Mr. Vivek Anand Sagar, Research Associate in NLS.
The Chief Guest for the formal function was Sri. Guruseva Dhurina Padmashree Dr. D.V.R Gowrishankar, CEO and Administrator, Sringeri Math, Sri Sharadha Peetha, Sringeri. The Founders’ Dr. T. Somasekhar Chairman of Indian Academy Education Trust, Mrs. Bharathi Tummala, Secretery of Indian Academy Education Trust, Mr. T.N. Venkatesh, Trustee-Indian Academy Education Trust, Heads of the Institutions, faculty and students coalesced in the formal ceremony by lighting the lamp and invoking the Lords grace.
The Chief Guest inspired the audience with his words of wisdom, on the true value and strength of humility and gratitude to God an individual must imbibe in attaining the purpose of one’s life.
The Chairman Dr. T. Somasekhar, emphasized the need to augment the institution to create an ideal and multidimensional academic institution.
The initiative at creating better future for the society is observed with various gestures to improve the prospectus of schools and colleges. The school children of government school in various areas are supported by the Founders’ every year. This year, the students of Government School (Challakere) were encouraged with contributions.
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Indian Academy Group of Institutions celebrated Teachers’ Day 2017. The programme was graced by the chief guest Dr. T.D. Kemparaju, Vice-chancellor, Bangalore North University., Dr. L. Gomathi Devi, Chairperson, Dept. of Chemistry, Bangalore University., Dr. Ramakrishna, Governing Council Member., Dr. G. Venkatesh, Governing Council Member and Dr. T. Somasekhar, Chairman, Indian Academy Group of Institutions. The Principals of Indian Academy Group of Institutions were also present. The highlights of the celebration were homage to Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, documentary on the life of Dr. Radhakrishna, address by the chief guest, guest of honour and chairman, felicitation of chief guest, guest of honour and long service of teachers and the ceremony of token of appreciation.
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The UG students of Commerce participated in large numbers. It was an enriching experience with respect to knowledge, where students shared their innovative ideas in redefining products and services in the market.
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The students along with faculties spread awareness among children by showing them scientific models ranging from heredity to global warming. Waste Management Session was conducted with an aim to make them understand their own surroundings and to nurture their social responsibilities of saving resources at a very early stage. Finally, the activities and sessions were concluded by giving the models and learning materials to the Principal.
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The event was sponsored by Merck-Sigma Aldrich Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. The theme for this year’s Chemposium was ‘Chemistry for Mankind’ and the topics for talk ranged from Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Design, Polymer Chemistry to Green and Environmental Chemistry which were not only contemporary but also touched upon social commitments of the chemistry community.
160 post graduate students, research scholars and faculty from various colleges, Research institutes, University and companies of Bangalore and IADC-A, participated in the event.
The Lecture workshop was inaugurated by the Dr. Jerome Xavier, Principal, IADC-A. He stressed the importance of pursuing research by the faculties occupying the space in Higher Education and materialistic gain should not be a hindrance to follow the passion of plunging into research in science.
Dr. Pintoo Ganguly, Site Head of Merck Bangalore graced the occasion as chief guest and delivered the keynote address. He conveyed his appreciation for conducting events like ‘Chemposium’ as it provides a forum for students, teachers and scholars to interact and share the latest developments in Chemistry.
Subsequent talk was by Dr. K.R. Prabhu, Department of Chemistry IISc Bangalore. He highlighted the importance of Green Chemistry in the present day research. Although the revolution in science has brought a great deal of advancement in synthetic chemistry, particularly in the field of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, polymers and several other day-to-day life, it has also brought quite a bit of problem. Most of the wastes generated in bulk chemical productions, fertilizers and so on creating problems and their disposal is a major problem. In the light of these issues, development of green chemistry is of paramount importance which would certainly reduce the problems related to pollution and chemical waste generation.
This was followed by a talk by Dr. Debasis Chakraborti, Deputy General Manager Lab operations from Merck–Sigma Aldrich Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore. He gave a glimpse of the company’s contribution in the global scenario with particular reference to India. He spoke on ‘Chemystery’ which emphasized the part played by Merck in solving the toughest problems and how they challenge the brightest brains to join the company.
Post lunch session was handled by Dr. C.V. Yelamaggad from Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Science Bangalore. He spoke on the strategic efforts to develop an altogether different class of functional materials, called Nano-Soft Composites, where the nano-particle (NP) and liquid crystal (LC) themes have been combined by realizing their hybrid (NP-LC) structures through bottom-up organic synthesis. Such NP-LC composites not only are fluids like those of liquids but also exhibit strong optical resonance arising from localized surface plasmon. These unique combined features highly are promising in photonics, sensors, photovoltaics, hyperlensing etc.
This was followed by oral presentations by 10 participants (research scholars) from Bangalore University, Merck Sigma Aldrich, Government Science College, Raman Research Institute and Syngene International Pvt Ltd., Bangalore. The judges for the event were from the sponsor company.
Sowmiya Carmel from Bangalore University bagged the best presenter’s award, followed by Dr Yuvraj from RRI and Mr. Litwin Jacob also from RRI.
In the valedictory session chaired by Dr. Pintoo Ganguly and Dr. Jerome Xavier, students from different institutions and companies shared their experiences during the workshop. Certificate of participation was distributed to all the participants. The vote of thanks was rendered by Dr. Mahuya De Ghosh, HOD, Department of Chemistry. The Lecture workshop ended with everyone having food for thought in a spectrum of topics in Chemistry. It was truly a CHEMPOSIUM.
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The Resource person was Col. Dinesh Mudri (Retd) from Indian Army. It was quite interesting to realize the ocean of career opportunities in unconventional arenas such as armed forces which are yet to be explored by students. Students were inquisitive and expressed their eagerness to understand by asking questions at the speaker. The talk also sensitized a feeling of pride and commitment to the motherland among the passionate and energetic youth.
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The day began with the Inauguration program presided by Dr. E. Jerome Xavier, Principal, Indian Academy Degree College – Autonomous. Dr. Jerome inspired the youthful audience with his wonderful words of wisdom and motivation. Inauguration program unfolded various events of the fest such as ‘Blitz Crunch’, ‘Arthagyaan’, ’ChaturaChanakya’, Mock Stock and Sip, Dine & Shine.
Blitz Crunch- Crisis Management set the platform to rekindle the brains of students to deliberate on a case study. Students across all streams participated in large number to exhibit their presentation and convincing skills. Students debated over Professional vs Personal ethics.
Chatura Chanakya- Best Accountant, activity was an individual event with more than 65 participants. Preliminary aptitude test was conducted to select the qualifiers to final which was a one on one Interview. Participants’ fundamental knowledge in Accounts and Finance were evaluated.
Arthagyaan – Business Quiz was a team activity, where in the Quiz master Mr. Sam Joshua, bombarded the participants with fantastic questions on current and business affairs. This event actually grounded the students to realize how less they knew about the world beyond text books. The think tanks had a knowledge enriching experience.
Mock the Stock – This activity was a simulation of the Stock Market where in the students stepped into the shoes of the investors with some minimum capital investment and traded on the stock exchange. The organisers flashed relevant bulletin news on the trading floor to influence trading activity. The price index literally witnessed Bulls and Bears with soaring and surging prices of stocks.
Sip, Dine & Shine – Indian Academy Degree College, Autonomous campus literally turned out to be a commercial hub for entrepreneurs hard selling their creativity through products and services. It was a visual treat to witness more than 20 sales stalls which put customers in a purchase dilemma. Stalls ranged from appetizers such as Arabian pulp, Panipuri to Yummilicious Biryani, Kabab’s offered on sales discounts such as Combo offer, family pack, ‘Buy 2 Get 1 free’ etc. To add colors to the event some stalls had eye catching colorful accessories which attracted the non-teaching and teaching fraternity from their desks and staff rooms. The USP of the event was that students understood the mantra ‘Customer is the King’ and achieving customer delight was beyond customer satisfaction.
On 13th September 2017 from dawn to dusk at IADC-A campus, it was indeed truly an experiential learning, moving out of classrooms to corridors and understand the essence of team work which is the need of the hour among staff and students.
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Department of Economics organized a Workshop for their students on “Library resources for research activity” on 21st September 2017. The purpose of this workshop was to facilitate good use of online reference materials available in the library resource center. Students are increasingly facing the need to reconsider their educational needs in order to maintain the traditional leadership in the cycle of knowledge creation, distribution and preservation.
Objectives of the workshop are:
The workshop had detailed presentation on access to different scholarly databases, with open source dissertations, articles, publications and e-books. A touch based on the referencing of different styles used was shown on the projected imagery.
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Investing in the stock market can be pretty intimidating and a daunting task. Being an informed participant is no longer an option in today’s world of investing; it has become imperative. Relevant and applicable knowledge gives students an edge in today’s stock markets and increases the chances of their success. With the objective of familiarizing our MBA students with the nuances of Capital market, a workshop on stock market trading was organized by Indian Academy School of Management Studies on 23rd September 2017.
Mr. Kishore B S, COO and Co-founder of Educesta Ltd., conducted a workshop on Capital Markets for the III Semester MBA students.He gave the students a perfect understanding about the market and on line stock trading. The session was very fruitful to the management students many of whom were new investors taking their first steps towards learning the basics of how to invest and earn through stock trading.
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MEDIOS 2017 an Intra-College Management Fest was organized by the department of Business Administration with the objective of the unfolding the hidden talents of the students of IADC-A & preparing them to face real life challenges after completion of the course. The Apprentice (Best Manager), KBC (Business Quiz), Telebrands (Product Launch) and Mickey Mouse (Pictionary) were the events organized.
The event was formally inaugurated by Dr. E Jerome Xavier Principal IADC-A, who stressed upon need and importance of Co-curricular activities, and motivated and encouraged students to take part in these kinds of events.
There was overwhelming participation from students from all the streams of IADC-A for these events.
Overall the event concluded with a successful remark sprinkled with vigor, excitement and fun and learning.
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Employability skills are the need of the hour for the students to launch themselves into the corporate world. Keeping this in mind, Department of Business Administration organized a Workshop on “Corporate Skills” on 23th September 2017, to give an insight about the world of corporate and the skills sets expected out of business administration students. The Resource person Mr. Dinesh Premachandaran who is currently working with Dell as a Testing Engineer gave a peek into the corporate culture followed in various companies he worked for. He spoke about the dynamic environment and the change it brings into all the spheres of the organization. He emphasized on the importance of Unlearning, learning and relearning to survive and thrive in the corporate world. One needs to adapt to any environment the company has to offer and that showcases his flexibility nature and caliber to capitalize on the opportunities that comes our way. He also explained the Eisen Hower matrix and how it can be used in better time management. Each tasks needs to be checked against the parameters of Level of urgency and its importance with respect to Professional and Personal goals. Usage of this matrix makes it clear for us to choose the kind of tasks to be performed in our day to day activities. The entire session was an interactive one. Lot of questions were asked by the Students and this was answered quoting the examples from the experience he gathered working in different companies. In all it was a great learning experience for all the students.
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