Kathmandu Institute of Applied Sciences (KIAS) in collaboration with Nepal Polymer Institute announces NepaChem travel award for Nepali students presenting their research at KaSAM 2014 (4-10 September, 2014), Kathmandu, Nepal. Your application package should include followings in a single pdf file.
A short essay describing your research and why you need travel award (500 words maximum)
A letter from your advisor indicating you have not received any other financial help for KaSAM 2014.
Proof of symposia presentation.
The travel award will only the cover registration fee for the symposia. Winners will be notified on 3rd September.
Email your application to info@kias.org.np by September 2September 5, 2014
KIAS is a science based multidisiplinary research center in Nepal.
I am attending ACS Fall National meeting 2013 at Indianapolis. It started on Sunday and will conclude on Thursday. This is an important event to share research findings and to network with your potential employers and collaborators. There are ~12000 participants, and among them are some Nepali chemists and scientist working in different Universities and companies. I have put together the titles of these presentations in this post. click on the title of presentation to know more about that research.
We would like to congratulate following chemistry graduate students from Nepal as they start their graduate study in different universities. Welcome to the graduate studies!!! Wish you a successful graduate study ahead.
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It is a matter of pleasure to announce that we have successfully collected donation of amount $1586 and had bought a projector for $767.18 and one laptop in $600.00 , one mouse and laptop case $34. Rest of the money is still in the payapal account. Initially we had planned to purchase a screen and some laser pointers but because of my schedule I couldn't do that, I beg your pardon for this.
Eventhough I had planned to organize a handover program on Asar 5th ,2066 but because of the conflict in schedules of Department Chief, I had to postpone it and later on I myself became very busy and had to organize a small program on Asar 19th right before by departure from Kathmandu.
ChemSA was asked to organize that program but it didn't show much interest. So Mr. Rishi Sapkota went there and asked students to be there and informed all the faculties. The program was chaired by Dr. Tulsi Prasad Pathak and addressed by several speakers like Dr. Mohan Bikram Gewali, Dr. Krishna Manandhar, Mr. Binod Prasad Pandey and Mr Mahendra Thapa. Our effort was praised by all the faculties and all professors have said thanks to all the donors. Dr. Tulsi Prasad Pathak has asked me to convey his appreciation to everybody and had said that was the pioneer donation work in the history of CDC done by alumni as a combined effort.
I do have some pictures but I forgot them in Nepal, I have asked Mr. Mahendra Thapa to bring them so I will upload few pictures after some time. Once again thank you everybody for your help and support. We take pride to be a part of such a good work in the history of CDC.
Everybody wishes the everything that is related to him /her should be good enough to take pride of it. We, as alumni are not exception and want to see and say CDC is a world class institution, we were a part of it and we are. We are millions of mile away from it but we are stuck to it in our identity and in our daily life as our career. It is a shame for us to watch the drama that is being played in our political stage but it is our weakness and out of our expertise to change the trend. The only thing we could do is wish good and hope good. We are seeing and listening the big slogan of New Nepal and we are pretty much clear that it is not going to be a New Nepal that way. The main mantra for new Nepal is everyone learns his/her duty and responsibility and thinks beyond his only own self interest. I know we may not make big difference but at least we can try. I came to realize this truth, as everyone, when I was away from home, away from my country. As everybody I also started to be more patriotic when I found the big gap between us and others in this world.
I used to sit in a classroom with some 90 people, a lousy lecture used to be delivered in the far front stage without any enthusiasm and fun. Later I found that classroom is more fun and more lively just with some visual aids and just with a little effort. Even In this 21Ist century we were lacking even a simple projector not only in a classroom but even for some seminars and such events.
These were the some motives to force me to think something that will be at least a little help for a better CDC. I was thinking this and thinking if we could do anything?? I asked my friends and said what if we could write this and ask our friends tomakea little effort and collect money. It was not a big deal to collect money we could have asked 10 friends to donate some 100 dollars eachand have donated a projector and a computer or could have asked even some strangers for help but as we were making plans we have a wonderful idea to collect all chemistry alumni and bring them together in this event and made some conspiracy to make an “alumni association of CDC”. As we see alumni association even in a High school, a business oriented +2 but not in that big institute. so this became another motive for this project.
I made a initial plan, talked with friends in University of Missouri, Basant Giri , Bhanu Neupane and Lekhnath Adhikari and they said it is a good idea . I posted it in Hi5 where I had some 50 friends in CDC group and I got immediate response from Ritu Gurung and Arjun Poudyal. We sent emails from and got response and support from several friends.We were thinking and kind of silent but some friends were asking where is your plan? You just made it and left it?? Then I thought I should start it and with the suggestion from friends I opened a paypal account and deposited some dollars for initiation then immediately I got more money deposited from other friends. As soon as I sent emails I got immediate deposition from Dr. Durga Parajuli and some other friends. This all added additional energy and we reached here, where we are almost close to the set goal.The most exciting outcome of this project is that we all came to know we are equally devoted to see better CDC.
I was getting some comments likenobody there in CDC is really good, they already have some good instruments that also they never use they won’t use that projector also, there is a 16 our load shedding , there is birds poop in the seminar room, birds will poop in it and lot more but I have just one answer let’s try good and think good, it is not a big sacrifice to donate 10,20 or some box when you have got M. SC. degree for free yup absolutely free, you got recommendation from there that’s was also a great thing!!!! Lets try it, if we could that’s good, if not still we are not losing our life or our anything !!! Some friends trusted me, some did with some caution but they did. It was not only me behind this but we were a bunch of chemists, all those who have made donation and who are in the way to make. We can’t guarantee that it will be as good as we expect but at least it will be some.
We are still trying to get more people involved in it we have almost 50 people participated spontaneously. We were thinking we will call everybody and ask donation, this was a good idea because by this we will have direct contact with each other. We were also getting comments like how can we donate just based on that email? We had realized that money collecting or social service was not that easy as collecting for picnic or gambling but we were hopeful. The main reason we couldn’t call all is we didn’t have phone no and we asked friends to make personal requests to everyone. We tried to get email addresses from every possible source, we went to the college’s site to find it, we asked friends etc. We tried to include all and hoped that most of us got information and requested our friends to circulate emails. We did that and got more participation. We are not making any sacrifice by donating some bucks but we are making a big difference in the way of thinking, we are showing we have time to think for others and for new Nepal not only for our own career!!
This project is going on and now we are excited and curiously waiting to see an alumni association!! We will work on it and hope to get your support as for this project. There is no personal interest for me to get any additional advantage but it will be advantageous for all of us!! May god bless us!!
Those who graduated from Central Department of Chemistry, Tribhuvan University Nepal now feel that there is something they can contribute back to CDC. Lately there are hundreds of Nepalese Chemists working and studying in different parts of the world. There is no alumni association of CDC yet.
Central Department of Chemistry, Tribhuvan University is the oldest institution in Nepal that started M.Sc. or Ph.D. degree courses in Chemistry. Now it has 180 students with ~35 faculty.
I came to know that former students of CDC have started collecting money to donate to CDC. They want to buy at least a multi-media projector. I know that CDC doesn't have its own MMP. It has couple of overhead projectors-OHP (assuming they are still working). Teaching and learning is still based on chalk and marker board. This is kind of shame but it is the reality of developing world. Use of multimedia and internet in teaching and learning process is vital in 21st century world. There are many things that couldn't be taught or learnt without these modern tools. When we have to give a seminar presentation-either we need to borrow the projector from others or have to present using overhead projector. There are dozens of master students who present their thesis each year, but they have to rely on OHP.
The fund raising campaign initiated by Mr Binod Pandey will help to solve this problem little bit. I hope so. Because there are lot of problems the CDC is facing. Many problems are common with other institutions and people faccing in Kathmandu. I think it would be great, if we could help one laptop with the MMP, so that they can use wherever they want.
If you are interested, you can just click on the donate bottom on up-right side bar of this blog. I did my part. Your small contribution is valuable. Money is collected to the Paypal account of Mr Binod Pandey. His Paypal email is binod_panchem@hotmail.com You can write cheque or give cash too. If you want to contact him his phone number is 314-229-5619. What do you think about this? Write comments on the comment box below.
After blogging more than one year on Science to Society, mixing everything in a single blog, I decided to create a separate blog for chemistry related activities of Nepalese around the world. I also blog for Palaipalo. Blogging has become a hobby for me and its really fun. This will be a place to share thoughts, some news and many more of chemists, specially Nepalese!!
All of you are welcome to write on it. Lets develop this site as a forum, informative and feel as your own site.
I need your suggestion, co-operation and help to make it success.
