On the 19th of May, 109 BS MS students and one Integrated PhD & 41 PhD students were awarded their degrees during the sixth convocation ceremony of IISER Pune.  Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, National Research Professor & Padma Vibhushan awardee and current President of the Global Research Alliance was the Ch...

Dr Thomas Pucadyil, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been chosen as an International Research Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He is one of the 41 scientists from sixteen countries chosen this year from over 1400 applications. The selection for this award that ...

Bhaskara Lab - a new computer lab is being set up at IISER Pune. It is being established under the Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure (FIST) scheme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. The fund is meant for universities and higher education institutions to stre...

Dr Anup Biswas, Assistant Professor in Mathematics at IISER Pune, has won the ‘Young Scientist Medal’ of the Indian National Academy of Sciences (INSA), New Delhi. The INSA is a body of Indian scientists created in 1935 for promotion of scientific knowledge in the country. The Young Scientist Medal...

2012 batch BS-MS student of IISER Pune, Yaikhomba Mutum, has won the prestigious Gates Scholarship to study at St. John's College in Cambridge University, UK The Gates Cambridge scholarship was instituted in the year 2000 through a US$ 210 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...

Abhishek Swarnkar, Integrated PhD student at the institute has been selected to participate in the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting taking place from June 25 to 30, 2017 in Lindau, Germany. He is one of the 400 young scientists from around the globe who have been offered this opportunity to experi...

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune has been selected by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India, for support and installation of a 500 TeraFLOP High Performance Computer system. The official statement regarding this was made today ...

Prof KN Ganesh, Director, IISER Pune, has been awarded an honorary doctorate in science by Vidyasagar University. [caption id="attachment_1018" align="alignleft" width="410"] Prof Ganesh receives the D.Sc. degree from Mr KN Tripathi, Governor of West Bengal[/caption] The University, located in P...

Dr Nixon Abraham, faculty member at IISER Pune, has received the 2017 Pfizer Research Prize in a ceremony held on January 26, 2017 in Switzerland. He shares this Prize with Dr Olivier Gschwend (University of Geneva) and Prof Alan Carleton (University of Geneva) for their work in the area of neurosci...

The IISER Pune contigent has won the maximum number of medals at the 5th Inter IISER Sports Meet (IISM)-2016 held at IISER Kolkata during December 8-13, 2016 and were declared the overall champions. Breaking the trend of the host IISER winning the championship, the IISER Pune team won prizes and ...

Prof Shyam S Rai (Chair, Earth & Climate Science, IISER Pune) has been conferred with the "National Award in Geoscience and Technology" for 2016 by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India. The prestigious award was presented to him in New Delhi on July 27 which was celebrated as the 10th ann...

Dr. VG Anand, Associate Professor of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has won the Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI). [caption id="attachment_896" align="alignright" width="135"] Dr VG Anand[/caption] The CRSI is a professional body established in 1999 with an aim to facilitate ...

The University of Queensland and the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research (Pune) have signalled their intention to create a new Joint Research Centre for Collaborative Impact. A Letter of Intent to this effect has been signed in New Delhi on June 21, 2016 between the two organization...

If you thought Twitter challenges you enough with its character limit, how about this NextGen VOICES survey by Science. In April 2016, the magazine had invited submissions from young researchers to create a story about the life of a scientist using exactly six words. From about 400 responses that...

Dr. Sudarshan Ananth, Associate Professor of Physics at IISER Pune, has been awarded the Buti Foundation Award for excellence in Theoretical Physics by the Indian Physics Association (IPA) for the year 2014. The Buti Foundation award was instituted by Prof. Bimla Buti who was a Professor of Astrophy...

The 2016 edition of IISER Pune’s in-house student magazine Kalpa has won the second runner-up prize in ‘educational institutes’ category at this year’s In-House Communication Excellence (ICE) Awards. The ICE Awards were instituted in 2009 by the Shailaja Nair Foundation to recognise in-house maga...

IISER Pune is on the cusp of its 10th year. As we celebrate this milestone, the time is right for looking back at IISER's evolution from a nascent organization to a research and teaching institute of repute. We bring you a series of blogs by people whose personal journey is intertwined with that ...

Infosys Foundation Endowment Fund to IISER Pune The Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IISER Pune to provide opportunities for economically underprivileged students to pursue science degrees in a research-oriented environment ...

Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) has instituted a new blended three-year Bachelors in Science course in collaboration with IISER Pune and University of Melbourne (UoM). The programme was launched on 6thof May by Dr Vasudev Gade (Vice-Chancellor, SPPU),   Prof KN Ganesh (Director, IISER Pune),...

[caption id="attachment_776" align="alignleft" width="146"] Prof Sulabha Kulkarni[/caption] IISER Pune faculty Prof Sulabha Kulkarni has been nominated as member of a Standing Committee constituted by the Ministry for Science and Technology (S&T) for promoting women in the field of science. The Co...