| Monday, January 14, 2008
‘Chemistry is a victim of its own success’
- Two-day national symposium inaugurated
- “It can rival ‘IT guys’ in terms of salary too”
MADURAI: Director of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
P. Balaram, on Thursday urged science students to show interest
towards analytical chemistry because it had immense potential
and could rival “IT guys” in terms of salary also.
“I want to tell the students that prospects for employment
are good for analytical chemistry but, unfortunately, academia
and industry do not recognise its potential,” he said.
Prof. Balaram was speaking at the inauguration of a two-day
national symposium on ‘Frontier areas in chemistry’
organised by American College here as part
of the golden jubilee of its Post Graduate and Research Department
of Chemistry. He expressed concern that chemistry was a victim
of its own success and even in I.I.Sc., Bangalore, it was dominated
by subjects such as biotechnology, nanotechnology and information
technology.
Making a slide presentation on chemistry/biology related issues,
Prof. Balaram said students should know there was a little difference
between biology and chemistry and what was enough was to know
the details of chemical biology.
In his inaugural address, P. Maruthamuthu, Vice-Chancellor,
Madurai Kamaraj University, lauded the pivotal role of the PG
chemistry department of American College.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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