When Teachers Become Students Again

Tracing the growth of a model training programme at IISc’s Challakere campus   Smita Bala Panda is among the 112 teachers who have travelled from Odisha to participate in the Teachers’ Training Programme at the Talent Development Centre (TDC), in the IISc Challakere campus. She covered the journey from Ganjam district to Bangalore via train, […]

Chasing Stars

Astrae, the astronomy club of IISc, recently embarked on an expedition to capture the Milky Way   Dusk was just setting in and the early stars were twinkling when the bus carrying a bunch of students and faculty members rumbled into the Challakere campus of IISc, late one May evening. The visitors were part of […]

Up In The Air

IISc’s second campus at Challakere provides an ideal locale to study aerosols and their impact on climate   Travelling down the National Highway from Bangalore to Challakere in the Chitradurga district of Karnataka, and past the city limits, I noticed the air becoming fresher to breathe. Could it have been because of the reduced pollution, […]