NAST PhD fellowship result announced

The Nepal Academy of Science and Technology has awarded PhD fellowship to following 7 PhD students.

1. Mohan Sangroula, Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University
"Floristic Study and Vegetarian Analysis of Tamor Watershed of Panchthar District, Eastern       Nepal" 

2. Rajendra Shrestha, Department of Physics, Kathmandu University

"Atmospheric Pressure Dielectric Barrier Discharge for Ozone Generation"

3. Bikash Adhikari, Environmental Engineering, Kathmandu University

"Study of Leachate Composition of Operational, Closed Landfill Sites of Different Stages and Lysimeter"

4. Krishna Bahadur Bhujel, Kathmandu Forestry College

"Fire-induced Carbon Emission from Tropical Mixed Broadleaf Forest of Nepal"

5. Manju Showree Karmacharya, Central Department of Chemistry, Tribhuvan University

"Physiochemical Characteristics of the Activated Carbon Obtained from Waste Tyre and its Alumina Composite"

6. Khaga Raj Sharma, Birendra Multiple Campus, Chitwan

"Screening of Some Selected Medicinal Plants of Nepal for Their Anticancer and Antioxidant Activities and Identification of Active Compounds"

7. Kumar Prasad Dahal, Central Department of Chemistry, Tribhuvan University

"Investigation on the Corrosion Behavior of Buried Materials by Soil of Kathmandu Valley"

http://www.nast.org.np/new/index1.php?option=L16yWDz_OJ0Mr02JvGM4gHesIb5pfp79TnVMg6TpO2g&nid=Bl0QqdhY8KY50uI1NrtvmFwc0gKQyB1ysIRqEd_qdnU

dance your PhD winners announced: explain your PhD research in dance

Sperm competition between brothers and female choice from Cedric Kai Wei Tan on Vimeo.

The "Dance Your PhD" contest 2013 winner is a video that described "sperm competition between brothers and female choice". In this video, Cedric Tan is trying to explain his PhD research about chicken mating process by dance. 

The contest is sponsored by Science magazine and AAAS. In this contest one has to explain his/her PhD research in the form of dance.

In chemistry category, Ambalika Khadria, a biochemistry Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, won the prize. Khadria demonstrated her experimental methods-a trick for revealing whether proteins are linked together in pairs. The dances literally used colored masks and fluorescent light to explain the research concept.

I guess it is not an easy job to explain the PhD research in science in a dance. Good job guys. Have fun watching these videos.

How to write a paper to communicate your research? 101 on publishing your work.

Publishing your research work is very important in your career. Some people argue that if you don't publish your work or your work is not publishable then you have not done anything. It is said that if your research doesn't generate papers, it might just as well not have been done. "Interested and unpublished" is equivalent to "non-existent".

Writing your research findings and publishing them on good journals requires extra effort and skill than just research. Publishing work should be a part of research itself. The effective communication of scientific research is vital both to the scientific community and to a scientist’s career.

Recently, American Chemical Society (ACS) has produced series of video interviews with top figures of the related field to assist authors and reviewers in understanding and improving their experience with the processes of writing, submitting, editing, and reviewing manuscripts.

This time, I want to share an interview with Prof George Whitesides from Harvard University. He is the chemistry professor and has published more than one thousand research articles.

If you are looking for answers of following questions then listen and watch his interview.

• When should you begin to think about writing up your research for publication?
• How do your students handle your approach of writing while you research?
• How do new technologies help scientists communicate their work?
• How many drafts does each paper undergo? Do you have your papers undergo an internal review?
• Do authors need to be thinking of marketing their articles?
• How concerned should I be about the title and abstract of my papers?

You can listen his interview by clicking the link below.

http://web.1.c2.audiovideoweb.com/1c2web3536/WhitesidesFullMP3interviewFINAL.mp3

or Watch video interview below.

THE FIFTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Nepal Academy of science and technology is organizing The fifth national conference on science and technology on November 10-12, 2008 at Kathmandu, Nepal. Slogan of the conference is "SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION FOR PROSPEROUS NEPAL".

NAST is Nepals autonomous body established to promote of science and technology in the country. The Academy is entrusted with four major objectives: advancement of science and technology for all-round development of the nation; preservation and further modernization of indigenous technologies; promotion of research in science and technology; and identification and facilitation of appropriate technology transfer.

For detail see the brochure of the conference