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[ScienceActivityCentre @IISERPune @ScienceActivity]

पीएमश्री योजना अंतर्गत STEM शिक्षकों की क्षमता निर्माण कार्यशाला
We are delighted to welcome all the participants to the @IISERPune for the Capacity Building Teachers' workshop in collaboration with
@SamagraShiksha @directorscertcg Chhattisgarh.

#HandsOnLearning #STEMTeachers

[IISER Pune @IISERPune]

⚡ Join the next workshop in the STEM Classroom Innovators Program (SCIP)!
Topic: Light Beyond the Classroom: Teaching Optics Through Inquiry and Simulations
Instructor: Ms. Prachi Pasalkar
(The Science Outreach Initiative, IISER Pune)
📅 7 August 2026
🕔 5:00–7:00 PM (IST)
⏳ Register by: 4 August 2026
💰 Fee: ₹500
Discover how inquiry-based activities, simulations, and everyday phenomena can make the teaching of optics more engaging and conceptually rich. Explore reflection, refraction, dispersion, image formation, and the human eye through classroom-ready strategies.
🔗 Register:
https://t.co/RM0dZYDqk6
#SCIP #STEMEducation #PhysicsEducation #Optics #InquiryBasedLearning #TeacherProfessionalDevelopment #CODEIITMadras #IISERPune #NPTEL

[IISER Pune @IISERPune]

💡STEM Classroom Innovators Program #SCIP – The Electronics workshop on Project-Based Learning in Your Classroom: Using Technology in STEM concluded successfully!
Offered by The Science Outreach Initiative of #IISERPune in collaboration with @CODE_iitm_, the workshop engaged 126 teachers from across India in an interactive learning experience focused on technology-enabled, project-based STEM education.
The session was conducted by Ms. Shivani Pulse and Mr. Ankish Tirpude, who guided participants through hands-on activities and practical classroom strategies for integrating technology into project-based learning. Teachers explored ways to foster creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving as they designed meaningful STEM learning experiences for their classrooms.
Join us for the upcoming SCIP workshops!
#SCIP #STEMEducation #ProjectBasedLearning #TechnologyInEducation #TeacherProfessionalDevelopment #InquiryBasedLearning #HandsOnLearning #CODEIITMadras #IISERPune

[IISER Pune @IISERPune]

#ResearchHighlightSeries🧪🖥️
Published in @ACSPublications, a research paper from Prof. Arun Venkatnathan’s group from #ChemistryDept at #IISERPune explores the fundamental molecular dynamics driving high-performance lithium battery electrolytes 🔋
Using Density Functional Theory (DFT), ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and Classical MD simulations, authors Nayan Dey and Arun Venkatnathan demonstrated that the composition of EC–DMC mixed solvents with LiFSI salt dictates ionic conductivity and identified an optimal EC mole fraction of 0.3–0.4 for peak ionic conductivity. Their results describe an optimum EC/DMC composition as a suitable solvent for battery electrolytes.🔋✨
Read the paper here! https://t.co/A4MUHjtjSh
#BatteryResearch #EnergyStorage #ComputationalChemistry #MolecularDynamics #DFT #Electrolytes #PhysicalChemistry #IISERPuneResearch

[Project CARE, IISER Pune @careiiserpune]

VOICE-2026 application deadline a week away.

If you are a journalist/content creator based in rural India or outside of major metro cities, do check out the fellowship details.

Fully funded workshop on env-health communication. communications.

Apply by: 5th August 2026

[Siddhesh Kamat @KamatLab_IISER]

A collaborative paper with @RatnaparkhiLab @IISERPune led by @lovi_garg is online at Acta Neuropathologica Communications. We describe how age-related lipid changes in the brain affect pathological outcomes in a fly model of ALS.

https://t.co/yYenFXkkAS

[Chitvan Jain @ChitvanJain6]

New Publication Alert 📢https://t.co/PE4bkYnwcU
Translating the dual-conduction mechanism of ubiquitous PSS: PEDOT into crystalline COFs enabling mixed electronic-ionic conduction. Grateful to all the co-authors, and thanks to @RamanathanVaid1, @IISERPune, and @APM_lab_IISER_P.

[Nagaraj Balasubramanian @AdhesionLab]

Thanks for featuring this work @biopatrika. Thanks again for the support of this work @ANRFIndia and @IISERPune

[IISER Pune @IISERPune]

💡 Join the next workshop in the STEM Classroom Innovators Program (SCIP)!
Bring STEM alive through Project-Based Learning and discover how technology can make classroom learning more engaging, collaborative, and meaningful.
Explore practical, classroom-ready strategies that integrate technology with project-based learning while fostering creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving across STEM disciplines.
Topic: Project-Based Learning in Your Classroom: Using Technology in STEM
(Teachers from all streams are welcome to apply.)
Instructors:
Ms. Shivani Pulse & Mr. Ankish Tirpude
The Science Outreach Initiative, IISER Pune
📅 Workshop Date: Friday, 31 July 2026
🕔 Time: 5:00–7:00 PM (IST)
⏳ Register by: 28 July 2026
Registration Fee: ₹500
📌 Registration Link:
https://t.co/OYZwj5voJO
🎓 A participation certificate will be provided.
This workshop is part of the 10-workshop STEM Classroom Innovators Program (SCIP) series, supporting teachers with practical, inquiry-based STEM teaching strategies across Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, and Electronics.
#SCIP #STEMEducation #ProjectBasedLearning #TechnologyInEducation #TeacherProfessionalDevelopment #InquiryBasedLearning #ExperientialLearning #STEMTeachers #IISERPune #CODEIITMadras #NPTEL #NEP2020

[IISER Pune @IISERPune]

#SCIPSeries: Week 4: STEM Classroom Innovators Program (SCIP) – The Biology workshop on From Cells to Organisms concluded successfully few days back!
Offered by The Science Outreach Initiative, IISER Pune in collaboration with @CODE_iitm_ , the workshop engaged 204 teachers from across India in hands-on, inquiry-based biology learning.
The session was conducted by Dr. Asim Auti, who guided participants through engaging, thought provoking questions and activities to develop a sense of how biology can be taught with understanding of underlying core themes. Teachers participated in interactive activities that integrated critical thinking, questioning, use of models and agent-based modelling, making biology classrooms more meaningful and engaging.
Join us for the upcoming SCIP workshops!
#SCIP #STEMEducation #BiologyEducation #TeacherProfessionalDevelopment #InquiryBasedLearning #HandsOnLearning #CODEIITMadras #IISERPune

[DIET Kargil @DietKargil]

Summer Training 2026 | Cascading Session.
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Day 1 of the 3-day cascading workshop for Science & Math teachers kicked off today at DIET Kargil in collaboration with @IISERPune.
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80 educators registered for the opening session, diving into hands-on activities with ICT Kits to strengthen conceptual learning in Science and Mathematics.
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Facilitated by expert resource persons under the #iRISE program, the energy in the room is high as teachers explore innovative ways to bring these tools into their classrooms.
@LAHDC_Kgl @DIPR_Ladakh @DIPR_Kargil @dse_ladakh @dc_Kgl @airnewskargil @GulistanLadakh_

[Biopatrika @biopatrika]

#researcherspotlight Sarita Puri @Saritapuri24, a DST INSPIRE Faculty fellow at IISER Pune @IISERPune talks about her work on "Multifaceted effects of N-glycosylation on amyloidogenic κ light chains in AL amyloidosis" @Structure_CP @UniMi https://t.co/DNQYoXSYSv via @biopatrika

[Suneeta Vardarajan @Ms_Gravitas]

A reminder of the Public lectures on Friday on black holes @IISERPune. No registration required. All members of the public are welcome. 1/n

[Sujit K. Ghosh Research Group @IISER Pune @skglab_iiserp]

Delighted to share our recent review article titled" MOFs, COFs and other porous framework materials for water purification" in Chemical Society Reviews by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

https://t.co/hFCd6LXtuj

[Nagaraj Balasubramanian @AdhesionLab]

Wonderful to see Manomay’s stunning image of focal adhesions stained in breast cancer cells featured by @focalplane_jcs . Manomay is a BSMS student at @IISERPune supported by an INSPIRE fellowship and excited about science / cell biology and cricket.

https://t.co/7RcWhx55dc

[IISER Pune @IISERPune]

🧬Join the next workshop in the STEM Classroom Innovators Program #SCIP!
Topic: From Cells to Organisms
Instructor: Dr. Asim Auti
(The Science Outreach Initiative, IISER Pune)
📅 24 July 2026 | 🕔 5:00–7:00 PM (IST)
⏳ Register by: 21 July 2026
Fee: ₹500
Explore inquiry-based, hands-on biology activities that connect cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems while integrating STEM thinking into classroom learning.
🔗 Register:
https://t.co/ptH8e1vNxU
#SCIP #STEMEducation #BiologyEducation #TeacherProfessionalDevelopment #InquiryBasedLearning #CODEIITMadras #IISERPune #NPTEL

[IISER Pune @IISERPune]

📐STEM Classroom Innovators Program (SCIP) – The Mathematics workshop on Linear Connections concluded successfully!
Offered by @CODE_iitm_ in collaboration with #IISERPune, the workshop engaged 252 teachers from across India in hands-on, inquiry-based #mathematics #learning
The session was led by Dr. Chaitanya Mungi and Mr. Taquee M, who guided participants through engaging, classroom-ready activities exploring linear equations, slope, graphing, and the connections among tables, graphs, and algebraic equations. Teachers experienced interactive strategies that make mathematics meaningful, visual, and accessible for Classes 6–10.
Join us for the upcoming SCIP workshops!
#SCIP #STEMEducation #MathematicsEducation #TeacherProfessionalDevelopment #InquiryBasedLearning #HandsOnLearning #CODEIITMadras #IISERPune

[IISER Pune @IISERPune]

Thank you Honourable @CMOMaharashtra Shri Devendra Fadnavis ji for gracing the occasion online and addressing the participants of the faculty development programme @iHubQTF

[CMO Maharashtra @CMOMaharashtra]

🔸CM Devendra Fadnavis addresses at the Quantum Technology Faculty Development Program at IISER Pune on the theme, 'Vision for Quantum Technology Ecosystem in Maharashtra' (Online).
Dignitaries were present.

🔸मुख्यमंत्री देवेंद्र फडणवीस यांचा 'व्हिजन फ��र क्वांटम टेक्नोलॉजी इकोसिस्टम इन महाराष्ट्र' या विषयावर आयआयएसईआर, पुणे येथील क्वांटम टेक्नोलॉजी फॅकल्टी डेव्हलपमेंट प्रोग्रॅममधील संबोधन (ऑनलाइन).
यावेळी इतर मान्यवर उपस्थित होते.

🔸मुख्यमंत्री देवेंद्र फडणवीस इनका 'विजन फॉर क्वांटम टेक्नोलॉजी इकोसिस्टम इन महाराष्ट्र' इस विषय पर आईआईएसईआर, पुणे में आयोजित क्वांटम टेक्नोलॉजी फॅकल्टी डेव्हलपमेंट प्रोग्रॅम में संबोधन (ऑनलाइन)।
इस अवसर पर अन्य मान्यवर उपस्थित थे।

🕑 2pm | 17-7-2026📍Varsha Bungalow, Mumbai | दु. २ वा. | १७-७-२०२६📍वर्षा निवासस्थान, मुंबई.

@Dev_Fadnavis @IISERPune
#Maharashtra #DevendraFadnavis #Mumbai

[Ashish Arora @2dMaterArora]

Our recent work - accepted as a Phys. Rev. B Letter (https://t.co/g7Rqpam0RZ). In ultrathin limit in solids, Beer's law does not work: below ~10 nm, light absorption is anomalously enhanced independent of any resonances. Funds: @IndiaDST @QMDFoundation @iHubQTF @IFCPAR @IISERPune

[Harinath Chakrapani @Hari_Chakrapani]

We used hydrogen sulfide to rescue cells from ferroptosis, an important stress mechanism. Spearheaded by graduate student @SimranGupta2312; Wonderful collaboration with @Dharma_IITK
@kamatsid @iiserpune @tohoku_univ @angew_chem https://t.co/W59FlAiqUn
@ANRFIndia