Invited for WorkShop on Tackling Unstructured Data by American Council on Science 

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Chandigarh November 13, 2019

            Dr. Gurpreet Singh Bawa who just completed his Ph.D under the supervision of Professor Suresh Kumar Sharma, Department of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh has been invited to conduct a session on unstructured data analysis in the upcoming annual conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence (CSCI) to be held at Las Vegas, USA, from 5-7th December, 2019. The conference has been organized by the reputed American Council on Science and Education (ACSE). The sessions will also involve showcase of his recent innovation on ‘Fine tuning feedback-based recommendation system using deep learning models in word vector space representations’. Prof Suresh Kumar Sharma has been consistently advising him with all his innovation work.

            Dr. Gurpreet has been actively involved in innovation and research work in the domain of unstructured data analysis and has many research papers in this area in international and national Journals of repute. In the past, extensive research has been done by Gurpreet on subjects such as latent topic fine tuning, identification of conversational drivers of textual product reviews, deriving personality traits of consumers from social media posts and object detection retail monitoring using image processing. Recently, he has also written a book “Text as Data”, and it is related to modelling techniques for unstructured data analysis. Additionally, he has worked on developing in-house assets such as intelligent chatbot for retail ordering and customer intelligence.

E-CONTENT DEVELOPMENT FOR MOOCS WORKSHOP AT PU

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Chandigarh November 8, 2019

Prof. Jatinder Grover, CALEM Coordinator, Panjab University, and Dr. Vishal Sharma, SWAYAM Coordinator PU, introduced the theme and topics to the participants attending seven days workshop on designing and development of  the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The workshop is being organised by the Centre of Academic Leadership and Education Management (CALEM) and Swayam Cell, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

The day four of workshop was devoted to the e-content development at ETV Studio at NITTTR, Chandigarh. The Instructional design and creating effective learning experiences by Mr. Girish Gurjar from IIM, Banglore were discussed. The rest of the sessions were dedicated to the practical aspects of video production and editing of the e-content in the ETV studio. Prof. Maitreyee Dutta coordinated the practical sessions. The technical team consisting of Savita Bhanot (STA, ETV), Anurag Soni (Cameraman), Jagir Singh, Baljeet, Monika Arora, Harjot Pal Singh, G.B. Pandey handled the studio production and post production sessions. The participants were shown the e-content developed in the studio after post production or final editing was done. The discussion and feedback session between the participants and the technical team culminated in the practical session at NITTTR, Chandigarh. 

The day five was devoted to the understanding of learner-centric MOOC model by Dr. Vineeta Shah from IIT, Mumbai.  She explained in detail the concept and intricacies of Learning by doing (LeD) and Learning Extension Trajectories (LxT) with the help of group activities and multimedia presentations. LxT enables the learner to increase the depth of their knowledge which usually supported by the assimilation quiz. The Learning Experience Interactions (LxI) in which learners interact via discussion forums were also discussed in detail.

Prof. Rajat Sandhir discussed the issues of Plagiarism in the MOOCs in the last academic session. He emphasized that the proper referencing and citation of the original sources from where the educational content was shared or used for developing the MOOCs is imperative.

PU Declared Results

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Chandigarh November 8, 2019

              It is for the information of the general public and students of Panjab University Teaching Departments/Colleges in particular that result of the following examinations have been declared:-

            1. B.Pharmacy-Ist Semester, August-2019 (Golden Chance)

            2. B.Pharmacy-2nd Semester, August-2019 (Golden Chance)

            3. BA/B.ed-4th Semester, May-19

                     The students are advised to see their result in their respective Departments/Colleges/University website.

Nukad Nataks by UILS PU students

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Chandigarh November 8, 2019

The 5th  year students of University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University,  Chandigarh performed 8 different street plays on the theme Environment spreading awareness about increasing pollution,
deforestation, wastage of water and the adverse effects of the same at
Sector 17 plaza Sukhna lake from  from 4th -7th  November.

 The plays titled Parivartan, Surat Badalni Chahiye, Prakriti se Panga
and Trahimaam were performed at sector 17 plaza and the plays titled
Vote for Vatavaran, Krishi Sangrakshan, Prakritika Darpan and Umeed
were performed at Sukhna lake. The students through the medium of
Nukkad Nataks encouraged the public to save our mother earth by
conserving resources and banning the use of single use plastic.

The students of UILS, Panjab University also conducted a survey on
effectiveness of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was conducted in Sector 15, 24
and 37 of Chandigarh. An analysis of the collective data of the
concerned area brought out that-

Around 80% (1089) of the people in the sample space knew about the
Mission, and still about 75% (947) people felt the need of improvement
in the policies.

About 55% (638) People in the sector feel there are enough dustbins
available around, while other negate it or aren’t sure.

35% (364) of the population is not at all aware of the concept of
single use plastic and is continuing to use the same.

PU Results

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Chandigarh November 7, 2019

              It is for the information of the general public and students of Panjab University Teaching Departments/Colleges in particular that result of the following examinations have been declared:-

  1. BHMS Ist Prof. September , 2019
  2. BHMS 3rd Prof. September , 2019
  3. BHMS 2ndProf. (Re-appear)  September , 2019
  4. B.Voc. Retail Management 5th Sem. September, 2019 (Special Chance)
  5. B.Voc. Retail Management 6th Sem. September, 2019 (Special Chance)
  6. B.Voc. Food Science & Technology 3rd Sem. September, 2019(Special Chance)
  7. Post Graduate Diploma in International Business 2nd Sem. September, 2019 (Special Chance)

                     The students are advised to see their result in their respective Departments/Colleges/University website.

Research Journal released by PU VC

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Chandigarh November 7, 2019

                            The special issue of Panjab University Research Journal Social Sciences (PURJSS) on the theme of ‘Discourse of Citizenship in Contemporary India’ was released by Prof Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, here today. He appreciated the efforts of editorial team.

            Out of 30 papers presented in VIII Chandigarh Social Science Congress (CHASSCONG) March 2018 on the theme, nine papers presented by research scholars across the disciplines of humanities and languages have been published after double blind peer review under the editorship of Prof. Pampa Mukherjee, Department of Political Science and Prof Archana R. Singh,  School of Communication Studies.

            Prof. Akshaya Kumar of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, has guest-edited the journal. The papers address diverse range of issues related to citizenship in the volatile contexts of globalization, climate change, nationalism, colonialism, trans-national migrations, subaltern politics and human rights. The paper-writers have drawn their research insights from fieldwork as well as from various sources of literature and arts.  The journal bridges the gap between social sciences and literary studies to flag complex tensions of contemporary citizenship.

            This is for the first time that the selected papers presented in CHASSCONG have been published by the University. Apart from the Editors of the Journal, others present during the release included Prof Karamjeet Singh, Registrar, Prof Sanjay Kaushik, Director ICSSR & Dean College Development Council, Prof Renu Thakur, Editor PURJSS and Mr. Vikram Nayyar, Finance & Development Officer.

Future for stroke treatment discussed at PU

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Chandigarh November 7, 2019

            The fourth day of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) -Asia Pacific Regional Committee (APRC) supported seminar on the theme ‘Blood-Brain-Barrier: From Basic Physiology to Neurological Disorders’, focused on treatment strategies to combat neurological disorders, here today.

             Dr. Jiban Jyoti Panda, Institute of Nanoscience and Technology, Mohali informed that blood brain barrier seems to be a bottleneck and restricts drugs to cross through the brain and treat neurological disorders. Yet, the advent of peptide nanostructures which can cross blood brain barrier can be a possible cure for gliomas, informed Dr. Panda. This was followed by a talk related to destruction of blood brain barrier during Alzheimer’s by Dr. Sachin Tiwari, AIIMS, New Delhi.

            Prof. Dheeraj Khurana, Department of Neurology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, highlighted his work on an implant that can promote the stimulation of sphenopalatine ganglion nerve which can lead to increase in the blood flow to the brain of stroke patients. Increased cerebral blood flow can help to prevent further damage to region of the brain affected by stroke.

            Prof. B.R. Mittal, Department of Nuclear medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, discussed imaging techniques like Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for diagnosis and follow up for treatment of brain-related disorders.

            The day ended with a heritage walk of the city.  

E-CONTENT DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSED DURING 3rd DAY of MOOCs WORKSHOP AT PU

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Chandigarh November 6, 2019

The third day of the ongoing MOOCs workshop was dedicated to the latest methodologies used in e-content development under E-PGP(Post Graduate Programme) and pedagogy and developing online courses with Google. Prof. Jatinder Grover, CALEM Coordinator, PU, and Dr. Vishal Sharma, SWAYAM Coordinator PU, introduced the theme and topics to be discussed on the day three of the seven days workshop for developing MOOCs. 

Prof. Vinod K. Garg from Central University of Punjab, Bathinda discussed intricacies of e-PG Pathshala. He informed that there are 22,000 plus modules available for the students for e-learning. He also shared that e-PG Pathshala is free, affordable and provides access of quality self learning study material developed by the subject experts. He also explained that in API the module development carry marks for the promotion of teaching faculty.  He demonstrated the working of Vidyamitra channel on YouTube and various aspects of SWAYAM website.   

            The other sessions were dedicated to Digital Pedagogy and developing online courses with Google and Eliademy respectively by Srinivasa K.G., Prof. (IMCO) from NITTTR, Chandigarh. He shared the importance of Digital pedagogy for developing effective MOOCs. The tools may vary as per pedagogy. He further explained about the other aspects of digital pedagogy viz flipped classroom, blended learning, online education resources, markspace, value based education etc. The MOOC is a very big platform and there are many players in the MOOC, and it is big business nowadays. He also explained the concept of nano-degrees and commercial benefits to educational institutes. He shared that MOOC creators are learning about the learning experience of the learners. The teachers should adopt technology and develop MOOCs for reaching large number of students. He explained the Moodle and Google Classroom for teaching learning process. Besides that the Assessment with the help of Learning Management System (LMS), use of social media, cloud based services, use of mobile phones, setting up of Rubrics for various pedagogies was also discussed in the last academic session.

550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji celebrated

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Chandigarh November 6, 2019

            The celebration of the 550th birth anniversary of Sh Guru Nanak Dev Ji was observed at Sarojini Hall, Girls Hostel no 3, Panjab University, Chandigarh, here today. Prof. Karamjeet Singh, Registrar; Prof. Parvinder Singh, Controller of Examination, Prof. Emanual Nahar, Dean Student Welfare(DSW) Prof. Neena Caplash, DSW(W), Dr. Parminder Singh, Director of Sports) and Wardens of other hostels marked their presence on this pious event.

            The programme started with an  imminent “Shri Sukhmani Saheb Path” followed by a devout Shabad Kirtan performed by the residents to commemorate the teachings of  the Divine, Waheguru.

            An inter-hostel calligraphy competition was also organized based on the theme “ Quotes from Guru Granth Sahib by saints other than Sikh Gurus.” Sonepreet Kaur, Girls Hostel-6 was declared as winner of this competition. Sukhmanpreet Kaur, Girls Hostel-3 was 2nd and Akanksha Bhatia (Girls hostel-2) & Komal (Girls Hostel-3) were declared as third. At the end of the programme guests and residents were served langar by the hostel volunteers.

Workshop on “MAKING OF A RESEARCH PROPOSAL” by UILS, PU

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Chandigarh November 6, 2019

            The Criminal Justice Practicum Cell (CJPC) of University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS), Panjab University, Chandigarh, successfully organized a workshop on “Making of a Research Proposal” under the aegis of Prof. (Dr.) Rattan Singh (Director, UILS), Dr. Anju Choudhary (Faculty Coordinator, CJPC, UILS), Dheerja Kalra (Student Coordinator, CJPC).

            The workshop was aimed at honing the research skills of the students in making research proposals. The workshop was conducted by the esteemed guest of honour Dr. Jayanti Dutta, Deputy Director, Academic College Staff, Panjab University. She has been one of the main proponents of this program for several years and is a true standout in her field. The workshop holistically developed students efficiency in linguistic, ethnographic and text-based research. It was an interactive comprehensive workshop which dealt with several aspects like scientific ways of conducting research, data analysis, and modern techniques of quantitative and qualitative research. The workshop concluded with fruitful discussions and deliberations. It was received among the students with great enthusiasm.