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100-hour programme in Space Sciences
ST. JOSEPH'S College has organised a 100-hour honours programme in Space Sciences in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Raman Research Institute. The programme will be conducted through classroom lectures and visits to Space Science centres.
The lectures will dwell into Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Remote-sensing. Besides, visits will be arranged to ISRO Satellite Centre, ISRO Satellite Tracking Centre, MST Radar at Tirupati, and the Sriharikota range.
This inter-collegiate course will be open to B.Sc. students with Physics as one of the subjects and Engineering students specialising in Electronics and Telecommunications. The 100-hour course will be completed within one academic year. Classes will begin in the first week of August, and will be conducted on Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning every week to avoid clashing with regular courses.
The course fee is Rs. 1,000. Students who complete the course requirements will receive a diploma issued jointly by the college and the ISRO. The last date for submitting applications is July 17. Admission will be based on an entrance test, to be conducted at St. Joseph's College, Langford Road, on July 24 at 2 p.m.
The test will feature multiple-choice questions and will be of 90 minutes duration.
About 30 students drawn from various colleges will be selected. The application forms can be sent to Dr. (Ms). Achamma Thomas, Head, Department of Physics, St. Joseph's College, Langford
Road, Bangalore - 560027 (ph: 22211429).
THE SIKKIM-MANIPAL University has announced five new career-oriented courses in Journalism and Mass Communication, Fashion Design, Applied Biotechnology, and Teaching Technology, through its distance education programmes. Admissions to August 2004 session are now open.
The Sikkim-Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technology Sciences, Gangtok is recognised by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and the University Grants Commission (UGC).
The university offers distance education programmes through the Manipal IT Education, a division of Manipal Infocomm. For more details, log on to miteindia.com /courses/center.asp
SINCE ITS establishment in 2003, Sri Kempegowda Adhyayana Peetha of the Bangalore University has organised several academic programmes in memory of the city's founder. As a first step, the Chair organised a national seminar to recapture some of the events linked to Kempe Gowda. Eminent scholars on the subject contributed their research papers while other experts threw in ideas aplenty.
To tide over the dearth of material, sources and documents related to Kempe Gowda, the Chair took up an ambitious project to collect all the data and to publish the same.
"Considerable progress has been made on this front. Two of the four volumes are completed and are likely to be out shortly. The remaining volumes will be ready in three months," says the Chair's coordinator, M. Jamuna.
Under the Chair's programmes, two exhibitions were held, one on the life and times of Tipu Sultan and another on the architectural and sculptural marvels of the State.
The Chair now plans to set up a museum and a library-cum-documentation centre. It intends to make a documentary on the historical sites of the Yelahanka Nada Prabhus and undertake research projects on the irrigation system of the times, stratification study of Bangalore, growth of religious and philosophical ideas in the State, architecture of minor dynasties of Karnataka, political economy of post-Vijayanagar Karnataka, besides holding a seminar and symposia.
THE BHAGAWAN Mahaveer Jain College team of Preksha Jain, Parvati, Priya, Nitya, Ramya, and Puja from 1st PUC Commerce, grabbed the first prize in the collage competition organised by the Jain College recently. The competition theme was "Bangalore A great city to live in?" A total of 558 students took part in the contest.
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