Picture a typical morning at the Indian Institute of Science in the early 1980s. Three attenders set out on bicycles, each assigned to a different part of the sprawling campus. Their task is to collect the day’s mail. They stop at departments and offices along their route, gathering letters, handwritten notes, official messages, and […]
The case of the missing radioactive stones As the last flowers cling to their trees, and the spring blossoms begin to fade on campus, the onset of summer is marked by a very special time at IISc: the arrival of Open Day. Gates open, labs light up, and thousands of people throng the campus, […]
Growing up in rural Andhra Pradesh, Murthy Gudipati sometimes slept in fields looking up at the stars. A few decades later, he now studies them as an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. An IISc alumnus from the 1987 batch, he studies the evolution of different kinds of ice […]
What is a myth about IISc that you would like to break?
Growing up in Coorg, Karnataka, CP Poonacha was always engaged in sports and outdoor activities. He enjoyed them so much that he decided to make it his career. After completing a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Physical Education, he started his career at Karnataka University and later worked at Jyoti Nivas College, Bengaluru. He joined IISc […]
What campus event/activity do you look forward to most? (Compiled by Amrapali Datta, Shreya Vashista, Kritika Gaur, Souptika Das, Manauv Vyas)
The perils of image manipulation in science Volume 119, No 38, Figure 1. To most people, this is just a set of incomprehensible scientific data. But this figure, along with those from 13 other papers, is special. They lie at the heart of a high-profile scientific scandal: the downfall of a Nobel Laureate. Unlike […]
Indumati Srinivasan has spent over three decades navigating some of India’s most complex public institutions – from the vast system of the Indian Railways to the research-driven environment of the Indian Institute of Science. Trained as an economist and shaped by years in the Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), she brought rigour and quiet resolve […]
Suhas Mahesh is a man of many talents. He is a material physicist working on building self-driving labs using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate materials discovery. A Rhodes Scholar currently working with Schmidt Sciences in New York, he also nurses a love for languages, particularly ancient ones like Sanskrit and Prakrit. He has published a […]
A day at DIGITS If IISc were a living organism, with the Main Building as its brain, then the DIGITS office (Digital Campus and Information Technology Services) would be its spine: positioned just behind the “brain”, tasked with carrying signals and coordinating responses across campus and beyond. The office building stands at the intersection […]
