Inside UG Labs

Where chaos, curiosity, and clarity reign equally   Amrit Mahendra Joseph still gets a faraway look in his eyes when you bring up his first-year undergraduate physics lab at IISc. The former UG student, who just completed his Master’s in mathematics, laughs about it now, but back then, an incident involving the impulse-momentum theorem felt […]

UG and I

An undergraduate (UG) instructor reflects on her experience teaching IISc’s students My students often complain that I answer their questions with more questions. I am convinced that they know why I do it, and aren’t serious in their protests. Here are some examples: Scene 1: First year UG lab, Subject: Microbiology  M was comparing growth […]