INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY (IWD) - 2025 CELEBRATION AT,
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (JNCASR) , BENGALURU
THEME: “FOR ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS: RIGHTS, EQUALITY, EMPOWERMENT”
1. Marathon: A Run was organized on March 08, 2025, to celebrate the International Women’s Day 2025. A total of approximately 50 Women members (including Faculty Members, Staff & their Children and Students) of the Centre participated in the event.
2. A Talk titled "Science, Gender, and the power of change" was organized on March 10, 2025, aimed to answer the gender based equality issue in the sphere of teaching and research by Professor Prita Pant of IIT Bombay. Professor addressed whether the gender equality still a goal or has it been achieved. If not achieved, then what is the path ahead to bring gender parity. The talk was attended by the Faculty Members, Officers, Staff and Students of the Centre.
3. A Pot Painting Competition was organized at the Centre on March 10, 2025 to mark International Women’s Day with huge participation from the members of the Centre.
4.Women in Nanoscience: One our JNCASR students, Ms Surabhi Menon (first author of a research paper published in RSC Nanoscale), along with Prof. Umesh V. Waghmare from Theoretical Sciences Unit, has been highlighted inthis year's celebratory collection of Nanoscience publications by Royal Society Chemistry, released on International Women's Day 2025, the collection showcases some of the excellent women conducting research in nanoscience.
