Out of the nine DU-Innovation Projects, our college received “Certificate of Appreciation” for five Innovation Projects at ‘Antardhwani’ Delhi University Cultural Festival which was held during February 20-22, 2015. These are as follows: (a) Certificate of Appreciation for Best Display in the Theme Business Ideas : DU Innovation Project BCAS 205 titled “To prepare edible packaged low cost healthy snack from fruit and vegetable waste and its effect on healthy respondents”. The team comprises of Principal Investigators : Dr. MeenakshiGarg, Department of Food Technology, Dr. SusmitaDey Sadhu, Department of Polymer Science and Mr. Shivani G. Varmani, Department of Biomedical Science. (b) Certificate of Appreciation for Best Display in the Theme Scientific Arena : DU Innovation Project BCAS 209 titled “Genetic curation of ataxia phenomes for establishment of predictive and rapid diagnostic paradigm”. The team comprises of Principal Investigators : Dr. Uma Dhawan, Department of Biomedical Science, Dr. PawasGoswami, Department of Microbiology and Mr. Bhava Deep, Department of Computer Science. (c) Certificate of Appreciation for Best Display in the Theme Health Concerns : DU innovation project BCAS 206 titled “Assessment of brominated flame retardants in mobile phones, their consumption pattern in North India and carbon footprints from electronic waste”. The team comprises of Principal Investigators : Dr. ManojKhanna, Department of Electronics, Dr. Geeta Bhatt, Department of Instrumentation, Dr. BalramPani, Department of Chemistry and Dr. RenuBaweja, Department of Biomedical Science.

Out of the nine DU-Innovation Projects, our college received “Certificate of Appreciation” for five Innovation Projects at ‘Antardhwani’ Delhi University Cultural Festival which was held during February 20-22, 2015.

These are as follows:

(a) Certificate of Appreciation for Best Display in the Theme Business Ideas : DU Innovation Project BCAS 205 titled “To prepare edible packaged low cost healthy snack from fruit and vegetable waste and its effect on healthy respondents”. The team comprises of Principal Investigators : Dr. MeenakshiGarg, Department of Food Technology, Dr. SusmitaDey Sadhu, Department of Polymer Science and Mr. Shivani G. Varmani, Department of Biomedical Science.

(b) Certificate of Appreciation for Best Display in the Theme Scientific Arena : DU Innovation Project BCAS 209 titled “Genetic curation of ataxia phenomes for establishment of predictive and rapid diagnostic paradigm”. The team comprises of Principal Investigators : Dr. Uma Dhawan, Department of Biomedical Science, Dr. PawasGoswami, Department of Microbiology and Mr. Bhava Deep, Department of Computer Science.

(c) Certificate of Appreciation for Best Display in the Theme Health Concerns : DU innovation project BCAS 206 titled “Assessment of brominated flame retardants in mobile phones, their consumption pattern in North India and carbon footprints from electronic waste”. The team comprises of Principal Investigators : Dr. ManojKhanna, Department of Electronics, Dr. Geeta Bhatt, Department of Instrumentation, Dr. BalramPani, Department of Chemistry and Dr. RenuBaweja, Department of Biomedical Science.

(d) Certificate of Appreciation for Best Display in the Theme Health Concerns : DU innovation project BCAS 203 titled “Public Awareness and Evaluation of Probiotics sold in Delhi”. The team comprises of Principal Investigators: Dr. ShaliniSehgal, Department of Food Technology and Dr. TejpalDhewa, Department of Microbiology.

(e) Certificate for Best Innovative Idea: DU innovation project BCAS 202 titled “Agro Waste Material Management: From Waste to Wealth”. The team comprises of Principal Investigators: Dr. S. K. Shukla, Department of Polymer Science, Dr. AnandBharadvaja, Department of Physics and Dr. Rizwana, Department of Food Technology.

Some of the Publications / Proceedings out of DU Innovation Research Projects :

BCAS 202 :

• ‘Development of preparative protocol for nano-cellulose from rice husk and its biocompatibility’ accepted for ORAL PRESENTATION at Advanced Materials World Congress, to be held in Sweden on August 23-26, 2015.
• Poster presented at ‘International Conference and Exhibition, Smart Materials & Surfaces – SMS Bangkok 2014’ on August 26-28, 2014, Bangkok – Thailand
• “Extraction and characterization of nano size silica from agricultural waste” Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Nanotechnology and Materials Science, (NATCON NAMTECH), University of Lucknow, held on December 21-23, 2013, page 38.
• “Preparation and characterization of biocomposite packaging material from Agro Waste”, at the ‘National Conference on Advanced Materials’, held on August 8-9, 2014 at Sharda University, Greater Noida