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In-House News
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| Celebrations
of 150th Year -University of Madras |
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University of Madras was established in the year 1857.
It is one of the oldest universities of India and celebrating
150th Year of its establishment. It is also amongst
the first 5 universities to be honored with the status
"University with Potential for Excellence"
by the University Grants Commission. The University
of Madras has grown into a large teaching-cum affiliating
University with 17 Schools, 66 departments of post-graduate
teaching and research,133 affiliated colleges and 48
approved research institutions. Through these various
Schools, University of Madras is offering 80 Masters
Degree Programmes, 43 M.Phil., Programmes, 24 P.G. Diploma
Programmes, 9 Diploma Programmes and 11 Certificate
Programmes under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS).
More details can be viewed through University website:
http://www.unom.ac.in |
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| Dr.D.Bandyopadhyay,
Director, Ministry of Environment and Forests receives
the first copy of the ENVIS Newsletter from the Vice
Chancellor. Dr (Mrs) Anne Mary Fernandez,
Registrar, University of Madras, Dr
S. Annadurai, National Co-ordinator, ENVIS
Cell, MOEF, Dr T. Kannupandi, ENVIS
Expert Committee Member and Prof. Munuswamy,
Co-ordinator, ENVIS Centre are seen. |
Prof.
S.P.Thyagarajan, Vice Chancellor, University
of Madras is opening the ENVIS Web-site both English
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Are You
Aware of? |
| American
Society for Microbiology (ASM) |
(ASM) is the largest single life science
society, composed of over 42,000 scientists, teachers,
physicians, and health professionals. Its mission
is to promote research and training in microbiological
sciences and to assist communication between scientists,
policymakers, and the public to improve health, economic
well being, and the environment.
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| American
Academy for Microbiology (AAM) |
(AAM) is the honorific leadership
group of the American Society for Microbiology. The
mission of AAM is to recognize scientific excellence,
as well as foster knowledge and understanding in the
microbiological sciences. For more information, contact
Barbara Hyde at 202-942-9206 or visit http://www.asm.org
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| International
Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM) |
| The
role of the International Census of Marine Microbes
(ICoMM) is to promote an agenda and an environment that
will accelerate discovery, understanding, and awareness
of the global significance of marine microbes. ICoMM's
goal is to report what is known, what is unknown but
knowable, and what may never be known about the biodiversity
of marine micro-organisms by 2010. |
The
International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM) will
facilitate the inventory of this microbial diversity
developing a strategy to (1) catalogue all known diversity
of single-cell organisms inclusive of the Bacteria,
Archaea, Protista and associated viruses, (2) to explore
and discover unknown microbial diversity, and (3) to
place that knowledge into appropriate ecological and
evolutionary contexts. |
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