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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata

Coordinates: 22°57′50″N 88°31′29″E / 22.963767°N 88.524613°E / 22.963767; 88.524613
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
भारतीय विज्ञान शिक्षा एवं अनुसंधान संस्थान, कोलकाता
ভারতীয় বিজ্ঞান শিক্ষা ও গবেষণা সংস্থান, কলকাতা
MottoTowards Excellence in Science for an Innovative India
TypePublic
Established2006; by MHRD
ChairmanShri Prathap C. Reddy
DeanSupriyo Mitra (Research and Development)
Pradipta Purkayastha (Academic)
Arindam Kundagrami (Student)
P. K. Panigrahi (Faculty)
DirectorR.N. Mukherjee
Academic staff
105
Administrative staff
91
Students1204[1]
Location
Haringhata, Mohanpur (Transient)
,
West Bengal
,
India

22°57′50″N 88°31′29″E / 22.963767°N 88.524613°E / 22.963767; 88.524613
CampusRural, 201 acres
Websitewww.iiserkol.ac.in

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata (Template:Lang-hi, Template:Lang-bn; IISER-K; also referred as IISER - Kolkata) is an autonomous science research and education institute in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, awarding its own degrees. It was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2006 and promoted to the status of an Institute of National Importance in 2012 vide the NIT Amendment Act.[2] It is one of seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, and was the first of the IISERs to be established along with IISER Pune.

Organisation

The institute has five major departments: biological sciences; chemical sciences; earth sciences; mathematics and statistics; and physical sciences.[3]

The institute hosts the Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences (CESSI)[4] and a Max Planck-DST Partner Group of Chemical Ecology funded by the Max Planck Society.[citation needed] It also has a field station for ecological, environmental and field studies, and a broadband seismological observatory. [citation needed] The institute jointly runs the Göttingen-Kolkata: Open shell systems (G-KOSS) in fundamentals of molecular spintronics with Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.[5]

Events

The college organizes a major annual festival, Inquivesta,[6] which is promoted as one of the first and the biggest science fest of the country. IISER Kolkata has also been hosting VIJYOSHI (the national science camp), along with IISc Bangalore and the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, since 2014.

Ranking

University rankings


Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata was ranked 29th by Careers360 in "Top Government University In India 2017"[7] and 44th was ranked by NIRF [8] in overall ranking.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://students.iiserkol.ac.in/
  2. ^ NIT Amendment Act, 2012
  3. ^ Departments at IISER Kolkata
  4. ^ CESSI IISER Kolkata
  5. ^ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Göttingen-Kolkata: G-KOSS. Uni-goettingen.de (2013-07-07). Retrieved on 2013-10-09.
  6. ^ Inquivesta Home Page
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rankings_CAREER_U was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rankings_NIRF_O was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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