Exciting Science Group, a joint activity of IISER Pune, NCL and Venture Centre, has been conducting science outreach and popularisation activities for students from local, municipal schools for the past ten year. Times of India reported. October 1, 2018. ...

Dr. Thomas Pucadyil is one of the recipients of 2018 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. Dr Pucadyil has been recognised for his outstanding contributions to Biological Science. Indian Express and Pune Mirror and NDTV reported. September 2018. ...

Dr Thomas Pucadyil, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been selected for CSIR's Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the area of Biological Sciences for the year 2018. Named after founder Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) India, the prize recognizes outsta...

IISER Pune-IDeaS Scholarship awardees for Fall 2018 are now announced. The selected students include 10 BS MS students, 4 Integrated PhD students, and 5 PhD students. Congratulations to all the awardees! The selection was based on grades during the first two semesters at IISER Pune and the award...

BS MS student Kartik Nirbhavne chats here with Prof. Satish Ogale whose collaborative work on novel solar devices has recently been awarded the International Newton Prize. The Newton Prize recognizes innovators from around the world who contribute to reducing poverty and aim for developments that wi...

As part of a series profiling women in science,  Firstpost published a podcast with Dr. Suhita Nadkarni, tracing her journey from education in Physics to her current research in the area of Neuroscience. September 19, 2018 ...

Abhijit Gupta and Shubham Singh, both from IISER Pune, have won the first prize at the ‘Python Innovation Day Hackathon’. Kicked off in June 2018 and the first of its kind in India, the online Python Hack fury (Hackathon) was organized by Intel, IISER Pune and Amazon Web services with an aim to m...

Indian Express reported on an Astronomy Q&A session organised by CoESME with IISER Pune scientists and students of a city school. September 9, 2018. ...

The 21st century has been marked by rapid progress in virtually every field of Science and Technology. As a result, practitioners in both industry and academia are often left to tackle modern problems with out-dated concepts and skill-sets. This not only hampers the career progress of individua...

On background of the launch of a new smartphone model that has a supercapacitor charged stylus, First Post spoke to Dr. Nirmalya Ballav about his research on supercapacitors. August 22, 2018. ...

Dr. Sutirth Dey and group's finding that even a native species can turn invasve in the same ecosystem under certain conditions was reported by The Hindu. August 4, 2018. ...

This article is contributed by Aakrati Agarwal and Mythri S., who were participants at a science writing workshop conducted by Vigyan Prasar at IISER Pune during October 2017. In 2015, the Mathematics Cosmetic Committee of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune threw ...

News about installation of high-performance computing facilities at IISER Pune under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) was reported by Indian Express, Beebom and  Top500. July 23, 2018 ...

Three IISER Pune members have been selected as Fulbright-Nehru Fellows for the year 2018-19. Congratulations to all three! Mr. Prabhat Prakash, a PhD student with Dr. Arun Venkatnathan has been selected for a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship. Using modeling and simulations, his work...

Prof. M. Jayakannan and Dr. Nagaraj Balasubramaian collaborated to design drug carriers that can target breast cancer cells. Pune Mirror, BioSpectrum and The Hindu reported on their research. July 13, 2018 ...

PhD student Swapna Joshi has just completed a short project as a Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellow on pyaavs (drinking water fountains) of Mumbai. Swapna's study traces the history of pyaavs from their inception in colonial Bombay to the recent efforts to restore and conserve the pyaavs. [gallery ids="1511...

Dr. Argha Banerjee's (Earth and Climate Science, IISER Pune) research on changes in length of Himalayan glaciers and its implications for climate change was referenced in an article on Scroll.in's Climate Watch series and in an article in The Pioneer on environmental disaster. ...

IISER Pune has received an endowment fund of Rs. 5.0 lakhs from Integrated Decisions and Systems (India) Private Limited (IDeaS), an information technology company at Cyber City, Pune. The fund has been given under their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Programme and will be used to give schola...

Dr. Sutirth Dey and his group's research on how adaptability of bacteria increases when exposed to complex environments was covered by The Hindu. June 27, 2018 ...

Dr. Sutirth Dey's work on the environmental factors that influence the dispersal pattern of species in the fruit fly Drosophila was covered by Research Matters. June 21, 2018. ...