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. ...

Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar was a part of the team that has discovered a new species of fish in the rivers of Western Ghats. Bangalore Mirror reported the news. June 21, 2018. ...

Dr. Argha Banerjee's (Earth and Climate Science, IISER Pune) work on how the Himalayas continue to grow taller defying erosion, was covered by the Times of India and Brighter Kashmir. June 20, 2018. ...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat and his collaborators from TIFR Mumbai and IISc Bengaluru are trying to decipher the mechanism through which liver secretes fat into the blood. Indian Express reported. June 19, 2018.  ...

Dr. G. V. Pavan Kumar, Associate Professor (Physics) at IISER Pune, has been elected as a Senior Member of Optical Society (OSA). The Optical Society is an international organisation for promotion of optics and photonics with a mission to unite and educate scientists, engineers, educators, and ot...

Dr. Arvind Natu (Chemistry, IISER Pune) has been honoured by the German Government with the prestigious ‘Cross of Merit’. Cross of Merit is one of the highest tributes paid to a foreign national by the Government of Germany and is a part of the Order of Merit. It is given to German or foreign nat...

Dr. A. A. Natu was conferred the 'Cross of Merit' by the German Government for his contributions to strengthening Indo-German relations. Times of India reported the news. June 12, 2018. ...

Prof. L.S. Shashidhara was elected an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), making him only the third Indian to do so. Times of India and reported the news. May 16, 2018. ...

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has announced election of 62 life scientists from across 24 countries to its membership. Prof. L.S. Shashidhara of IISER Pune has been elected an EMBO Associate Member, making him the third scientist from India to join a group of about 1800 research...

IISER Pune is organising a 3-week orientation camp for girls from rural Maharashtra studying in Class XI under DST's Vigyan Jyoti scheme. Indian Express and Hindustan Times reported. May 10, 2018. ...

India Science Wire and APNLive reported on a workshop on Research Management that was held at IISER Pune under the aegis of IRMI, an initiative of the Wellcome-DBT India Alliance. May 5, 2018. ...

Dr. Mousomi Bhakta received INSA Young Scientist Medal for 2018. The news was reported by The Times of India. May 3, 2018. ...

From being a bachelor student in physics to a researcher in climate science, Dr. Neena Joseph Mani’s career story takes us through the vagaries of the weather and the means to understanding the same. At IISER Pune’s Earth and Climate Science discipline that investigates systems with timescales as va...

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

Dr. Arun Venkatnathan and his group, in collaboration with researchers from Temple University, USA, are working on ways to make mobile phone batteries safer and preventing their explosion. Sakal Times and Hindustan Times wrote about their findings. April, 2018. ...

Dr. Deepak Barua's work on the relationship between leaf traits and thermotolerance of plants was reported by Research Matters. April 16, 2018. ...