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May 28, 2021

C.N.R. Rao Receives 2020 International ENI Award

Noted Indian scientist and Bharat Ratna Professor, C.N.R. Rao has been felicitated with the International Eni Award 2020 (also called the Energy Frontier award). The International Eni Award is considered to be the Nobel Prize in Energy Research. He has been conferred the prize for his work on metal oxides, carbon nanotubes and other materials and two-dimensional systems.
Professor Rao will be presented the Eni Awards 2020 on 14 October 2021, during an official ceremony held at the Quirinal Palace in Rome. The Eni Award is awarded annually by the Italian oil and gas company Eni to encourage better use of energy sources and increased environmental research.

May 27, 2021

Amartya Sen Gets Spain's Top Award

Indian economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Kumar Sen has been conferred with Spain's top Princess of Asturias Award in the social sciences category.
Sen was selected out of 41 candidates from 20 nationalities. "His research on famines and his theory of human development, welfare economics and the underlying mechanisms of poverty have contributed to the fight against injustice, inequality, disease and ignorance," it said. The award comprises a Joan Miro sculpture representing and symbolising the award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of 50,000 Euros. The award was announced via video-conference.

May 25, 2021

Kerala Farmer Bags India Biodiversity Award 2021

Shaji .N.M. fondly called as 'Tuber Man' of Kerala has been awarded the India Biodiversity Award 2021 in the individual category of 'Conservation of domesticated species'.
Mr. Shaji, who conserves a wide array of around 200 tuber crops including greater yam, lesser yam, elephant foot yam, arrow root, colocasia, sweet potato, cassava and Chinese potato in his farm has received State awards seven times for his efforts. He has also received the Plant Genome Savior Reward 2015, instituted by PPV&FR Authority, New Delhi.
He makes efforts to travel even to interior forests to get new types of tubers, which are known and used only by the tribal community, and even such special tubers are conserved in his field including six wild species. His farm has 40-odd varieties of turmeric and 30 varieties of ginger. He is also conserving many paddy varieties, which are on the verge of extinction.

Naturalist Jane Goodall Wins 2021 Templeton Prize for Life's Work

The naturalist Jane Goodall has been announced as the 2021 winner of the Templeton Prize in recognition of her life's work on animal intelligence and humanity.
Goodall built her global reputation on her groundbreaking studies of chimpanzees in Tanzania in the 1960s. Her foundation, the Jane Goodall Institute, works with local communities as well as providing safe habitats for chimpanzees and gorillas, and its educational branch, Roots and Shoots, operates in 67 countries.

May 23, 2021

Six Research Scholars Get Prime Minister's Research Fellowship

It is a matter of great pride for the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University that six of its researchers have been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) under the Lateral Entry Scheme of the December 2020 drive.
They are: Fozia Tabassum - Civil Engineering Department, Momina - Civil Engineering Department, Azra Malik - Electrical Engineering Department, Firoz Khan - Center for Nanology and Nanotechnology, Alia Tayeb - Center for Basic Interdisciplinary Research abd Aashi Saif - Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Science Center.
PMRF-JMI Coordinator Professor Abdul Qayyum Ansari said the six researchers will personally receive a fellowship of Rs. 70,000 per month for the first two years, Rs. 75,000 per month for the third year, Rs. 80,000 per month for the fourth and fifth year respectively.
In addition, each of them will get a research grant of Rs 2 lakh per year (a total of Rs. 10 lakh for five years) under the PMRF.

May 21, 2021

DNA Sequencing Pioneers from Cambridge Win 1 Million Euro Tech Nobel Prize

Two British chemists who developed a super-fast DNA sequencing technique that paved the way for revolutionary healthcare advances were awarded Finland's version of the Nobel science prizes. Cambridge University professors Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman took home the 1 million euro ($1.22 million) Millennium Technology Prize for their work over 27 years creating ever faster and cheaper ways to sequence the human genome.
The pair's Next-Generation DNA Sequencing technology (NGS) "means huge benefits to society, from helping the fight against killer diseases such as Covid-19 or cancer to better understanding crop diseases and enhancing food production," the Technology Academy Finland, which awards the biennial prize.
The Finnish Millennium Technology Prize, founded in 2004, singles out innovations that have practical applications and which "enhance the quality of people's lives." It aims to be a technology equivalent of the Nobel science prizes, which have been criticised by some for focusing too much on traditional, decades-old scientific research.

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