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The
department was established in the
year 1993 to cater the need of B.Sc,
Graduates to do post graduation in
Chemistry. The faculty members were
recruited in the year 1998 and till
then the department was looked after
by the Ind. Chemistry Department.
Since then department is actively
involved in teaching, research and
extension programmes. Thrust area of
research include, bio-organic
chemistry, synthetic organic
chemistry, natural product
chemistry, metal finishing and dyes
& pigments. Specialization in
Organic Chemistry is introduced at
the final M.Sc, since 2006.
Specialization of Organic Chemistry
will be offered for 10 students at
the 2nd year of M.Sc, course. |
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One
major research project funded by UGC,
entitled" Enumeration and
Investigation of Antifertility
activity of Medicinal plants of
Shimoga and Sringeri Taluks" has
been successfully completed. And one
International Collaborative Research
Project (ICRP) sponsored by stiefel
laboratories, UK, entitled"
Evaluation of Indigenous to Shimoga
,Gulbarga and Sandur Areas of the
State of Karnataka in India for
Activity against skin Diseases" is
in good progress since October 2000.
Under this research programme,
research students from this
university visit university of
Sunder- land UK for a period of six
months every year. In addition the
department has British Council
Exchange Programme, in which
researchers from the university
visit UK. Very recently Dr. T.V.
Venkatesha has got a major research
project entitled ?Development of new
pollution free addition agents for
industrial zinc plating by
electrochemical study? and Dr. Y.
Arthoba Naik has got major research
project entitled ?solar energy based
electrochemical recovery of heavy
metals from industrial effluents-an
eco friendly process? by UGC Govt of
India. |
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The
department has produced more than 30
Ph.D and 3 M.Phils. The research
work carried out so for in the
department has been published in 100
research papers of National and
International repute. |
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The
department with collaboration of the
department of Industrial Chemistry
has been selected for FIST programme
by DST, New Delhi. Under this
programme Rs.22 lakhs has been
sanctioned and very useful
instruments like, IR, UV Spectro
Photometer, electronic balances,
viscometer and computers have been
procured and placed in" Central
Instrumentation Room" . The
department has received one HPLC
Instrument worth Rs. 12 lakhs as
donationation by stefel laboratories
UK. |
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The
department with collaboration of the
department of Industrial Chemistry
has been selected for FIST programme
by DST, New Delhi. Under this
programme Rs.22 lakhs has been
sanctioned and very useful
instruments like, IR, UV Spectro
Photometer, electronic balances,
viscometer and computers have been
procured and placed in" Central
Instrumentation Room" . The
department has received one HPLC
Instrument worth Rs. 12 lakhs as
donationation by stefel laboratories
UK. |
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The
department has organized 12 national
level Seminars/Conferences and
conducted 6 UGC sponsored refresher
courses. So for 15 students have
successfully completed UGC/CSIR/NET/GATE
examination. During the month of
April/may 2007 several students have
secured placement in various
Industries and Research Institutes
through campus interview with
handsome salary as other fringe
benefits.Various organizations like
Syngene Biocon Company, Bangalore,
Hickel, Bangalore, BASF, Mangalore,
Apotech Bangalore, Strides Arco lab,
Mangalore and Vetcare, Bangalore,
were visited the campus for the
selection of the candidates. It is
needles to say that all most all
students will get good jobs
immediately after their degree. |
