Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 20: Prof Rajni Kant of Physics and Chief-Coordinator Offsite Campuses, University of Jammu, has been selected to prestigious National Academy of Sciences India (NASI) as its Member.
The selection to NASI is made on the basis of a very tough academic scrutiny of the nominations and academic credentials of the distinguished academics drawn from Universities, IITs, Institutions of national importance and national Laboratories of the country in all related disciplines of Science and Technology.
Prof Rajni Kant was recently selected to the International Council for Science Unions (ICSU) as a member of the select committee for International Union of Crystallography-Indian National Science Academy (IUCr-INSA) supported National Committee on Crystallography for a period of four years.
Therefore, with his selection to NASI, Prof Rajni Kant has become the only academic from the State of Jammu and Kashmir to have representation in both the apex scientific bodies of the country. This is a rare feat for an academician who happens to be the recipient of first Young Scientist award in Physics and also the State’s first recipient of DST’s BOYSCAST fellowship, awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, to have undertaken advanced research in X-ray Crystallography at University of Oxford.
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