Guest Lectures by:
1. Dr. Bharat B. Kale (Former Director C-MET (Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology): Dr. Bharat Bhanudas Kale, Emeritus Professor and Director Materials Sciences (CoE), MIT World Peace University (MITWPU), Pune & Emeritus Scientist and Former Director General/Scientist-G of C-MET, Govt. of India, Pune -8. He is having a very good expertise in the field of New generation batteries and materials and having 40 years huge research experience with high quality research publications. The 90 minutes lecture was scheduled on Saturday, 18th December, 2024 at 11.30 am in Bharatratna Swarsamradny Lata Mangeshkar Auditorium, Modern College New Building, Shivajinagar, Pune-5.
2. Prof. Dr. Rajiv Chikate (Former Head, Department of Chemistry, Abasaheb Garware College, Pune) : Guest Lecture on “Nanotechnology” by Prof. Dr. Rajeev C. Chikate (Brain-Pool Fellow, Korea, Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences) Professor and Ex-Head, Department of Chemistry, Abasaheb Garware College, Pune-4 organized on 6th August, 2024 at 11.00 am in Bharatratna Swarsamradny Lata Mangeshkar Auditorium, Modern College new building, Shivajinagar, Pune-5. Lecture was open to all the Post Graduate and Under Graduate (Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Botany, Zoology, Biotechnology, Microbiology) students.
3. Dr. Shantashree Sengupta, Librarian, Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce (Autonomous), Shivajinagar, Pune – 05 : Dr. Shantashree Sengupta delivered a practical and theoretical guidance session on ‘Use of E-resources for Academic and Research Purposes in Chemistry’ organised by the Department of Chemistry of Progressive Education Society’s Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce (Autonomous), Shivajinagar, Pune-5 on 17th February 2025. The contents of the three hour session were Definition and Types of E-resources, Databases and Open Access Resources in Chemistry, Open Access Chemistry Databases, Literature Search, Types of Papers, ORCID, VIDWAN, The Copyright Act 1957, Style Manuals, Plagiarism and detection tools, Reference Management Tools and Creative Commons License. Practical examples were shown for each of the databases and open access resources to explain their usage and search techniques. The interactive session was followed by Question and Answer session wherein the queries of the faculty members and students were answered by me regarding e-resources, free plagiarism detection websites and web searching.
The guidance session was attended by the undergraduate, postgraduate students and faculty members of the Department of Chemistry.
