Second Convocation at IISER Mohali

>Second Convocation at IISER Mohali held on May 25, 2013. Chief Guest: Professor P. Rama Rao (Former Secretary, DST Government of India and Former Chairman Board of  Governors, IISER Mohali). Professor K. K. Talwar, Chairman, Board of Governors IISER Mohali presided over the function.

Foundation Day Celebration

>IISER Mohali Foundation Day 2013 was celebrated on September 27th, 2013. Professor P. Balaram, Director of the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, delivered a Lecture on  "Chemical Diversity in Biology " on this occasion. D-space, an open source libary software was inaugurated at IISER Mohali by Professor P. Balaram, Director of the Indian  Institute of Science Bangalore, on the occasion of Founday Day 2013.

Release of Film on IISER Mohali

A film on the inception, vision and setting up of IISER Mohali, was commissioned by the institute. The film includes footage of interviews with faculty and students and also records the progress in construction of the campus. The film, titled “IISER Mohali: The Dream of Science'' has been produced by Chrysalis Films, and several cuts of the footage, targeted at different audiences, have been prepared, including a 10 minute, a 30 minute and a 60 minute version. The film was released on April 12, 2013 by Professor K. K. Talwar, Chairman Board of Governors of IISER Mohali. The film has also been broadcast by Vigyan Prasar, and has been much appreciated by viewers.

Release of Volume of Abstracts on IISER Mohali Publications

A volume of abstracts of "IISER Mohali Publications" was released by Professor K.K. Talwar Chairman BOG IISER Mohali on May 24, 2013 in the Board of Governors meeting.

Independence Day Celebration

66th Independence Day celebrated at IISER Mohali sector 81 campus. National Flag was hoisted by Prof. N Sathyamurthy Director IISER Mohali in the presence of Dr. P. Bapaiah Registrar IISER Mohali, faculty members and other staff members. Ms. Satavisa Jana and Ms. Aayush received CNR Rao foundation award and 13 students got Academic Excellence awards from the Director on this occasion.

Science Day Celebration

Science Day was celebrated this year on February 28 2014 with a program organized by our students for school students of the region. The program was coordinated under the auspices of the Outreach Centre of the institute.  Around 200 school children from the region participated in the program which was advertised on the institute' s website and in newspapers. The program took place in the lecture hall complex and a variety of events were organized including a science quiz. The school students were shown several  demonstrations of experiments in various science laboratories and were taken to visit different research facilities in CAF. An open session of school students with scientists from IISER Mohali was organized where questions from students were answered by the faculty. A public lecture on "The Ozone Hole - History and What's Behind?" was delivered by Dr. Franz X. Meixner from Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz Germany. The Chief Guest for the programme was Professor R.N. Mukherjee, Director IISER Kolkata. The faculty coordinator for the programme was Dr. Amit Kulshrestha.

INSA Oration

Prof. Rajesh Kochhar, Honorary Professor, IISER Mohali, and, Panjab University, and, former Director NISTADS (CSIR), Delhi) delivered the Indira Gandhi Prize for Popularization of Science Oration (2013) on February18, 2014. The award is given by the Indian National Science Academy. Director IISER Mohali, Prof. N. Sathyamurthy chaired the event.

Foundation Day

Foundation Day Lecture was delivered by Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan, Secretary Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India,  on 27th September 2014 at LH7 Lecture Hall Complex IISER Mohali. The title of Lecture was "Brain Development and Challenges for India".

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