Public Lecture Series on Science & Innovation for Sustainable Solutions in Jammu University

On 16th November 2023, the Science Club, Utsaah organized a Public Lecture Series on Science & Innovation for Sustainable Solutions. Today’s lecture series intertwines the knowledge from history, power of data, the wonders of plants for health and the transformative potential of coding skills in entrepreneurial endeavours. The program aimed to instil the culture of inventions and innovation for Sustainable Solutions for future in youth.

The highlight of the program was the talk by Padmashree, Prof. Dinesh Singh, Vice Chairperson of HEI, J&K UT and Former VC Delhi University on “The World of Inventions & Innovations: Some Interesting examples”. He discussed and interacted with the students from various discipline about the inventions centuries ago like the accidental discovery of Penicillin. Prof. Dinesh inspired students to be curious, use their own hands, and intellect. He gave examples how architect and construction use Pythagoras theorem in daily basis which came from Sulba Sutra which was very well known in India from ancient times. He mentioned interesting examples from history and it was great learning for the students and audience. He emphasized how from simple data great inferences and innovations can happen.

The event was presided by the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, Prof. Umesh Rai and his visionary words inspired the audience.
The guest speaker Dr Sangram K. Lenka, Associate Professor from Gujarat Biotechnology University delivered a lecture on “Sustainable Health Promoting Nutraceuticals from Plants”.
He shared his practical research-based experience about various health promoting nutraceuticals produced using modern biotechnological tools such as synthetic biology and genome editing etc. He engineered grape cell culture with anti-aging properties, anti-cancer tomatoes and how vanillin can stop the antibiotic resistance. The lecture created lot of curiosity and a follow up discussion during the interaction session from the enthusiastic audience and students of Design Your Degree program.

The young entrepreneur and CEO of Ezytech Products Mr. Sahej Pal Singh s/o Amandeep Singh is 12th class student of Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Sainik Colony Jammu shared his journey and how learning coding helped him to make software (Ezy Print Packing) that allows users for packing labels with no hazard of design or any other complication and sticker printing are very cost effective by rates. Many industries in J&K UT uses his software.

The welcome address was delivered by Prof. Satnam Kour, Chairperson, Utsaah, The clubs, University of Jammu. Among the eminent guests Prof. S. K. Pandey (Chemistry), Prof. K.S. Charak (Mathematics), Prof. Alka Sharma, (Director, SIIEDC), Prof. Anil Gupta (Director, SHTM), Dr Sadaf Shah (English), Dr Jatinder Manhas (Computer Science), Dr Garima Gupta (Media), Prof. Parmil Kumar (Head, Statistics), Prof. Ramesh (Statistics), Dr Rakesh Sharma (HoD, Fine Arts, IIMFA), Dr Pallavi Sahdeva (Lifelong Learning), Dr Sunil (Statistics), Dr Sandeep Arya (Physics).

Program proceedings were conducted by Dr Divya. The program was very appreciated and well perceived by the students and audience. Dr Chinmoyee Maharana, Coordinator, Science Club organized the event.