Another success for the Central University of Haryana: Prof. Pawan Sharma was awarded the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship

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Another success for the Central University of Haryana: Prof. Pawan Sharma was awarded the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship

Professional. Pawan Sharma

Professional. Pawan Sharma

Professor Pawan Kumar Sharma from the Department of Chemistry, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, has been nominated for the prestigious Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship. This year, the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Washington DC, accepted 46 scholars from a wide range of disciplines from 30 countries on six continents as part of the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence program. Professional. Pawan Kumar Sharma is the first scholar from Haryana to be honored with this award.

Vice Chancellor of Haryana Central University Prof. Tankeshwar Kumar Prof. He congratulated Pawan Sharma on this achievement and said it is a great honor for a young university like Central University of Haryana to be a senior professor of the university and an internationally recognized researcher for it prestigious scholarship were nominated. This will not only give HKV national and international visibility, but also provide opportunities for long-term collaboration between the Central University of Haryana and American universities. The scientific and cultural exchange with scientists from all over the world will open up new opportunities for research and teaching at the HKV, which our students and researchers can continue to use in the future.

As part of this fellowship, Prof. Pawan Kumar Sharma will spend an academic session at Wesleyan University in the United States. Let us mention here that Professor Pawan was previously awarded the 2019 Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrator Award from the United States-India Educational Foundation, the 2018 Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Gold Medal from the Indian Science Congress Association, and the 2018 Bronze Medal from the Chemical Research Society of India , Indian The Chemical Society has been honored with numerous other awards including the 2012 National Award. He is also the first and only Haryana scientist to be nominated as a member scientist of the 21st Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents, published by Bentham Science Publishers, Honorary Senior Advisor to the journal Current Indian Science and several other publications edited by the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society and Chemical Society, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley etc. He is a reviewer for renowned international research journals.

Speaking of the Fulbright Scholarship: It is the flagship of the US government’s international academic exchange program through the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), founded in the USA in 1946. It operates in over 160 countries worldwide and participants are selected for their academic achievement and leadership potential. It offers the opportunity to study, teach and research, exchange ideas and contribute to solving common international challenges. Under the Fulbright Group, the Fulbright Scholars-in-Residence program brings visiting scholars from around the world to colleges and universities in the United States, enabling institutions to internationalize their campuses and curriculum and their students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding community It helps to diversify the educational experiences of International Fulbright Scholars are considered highly respected experts in their fields and receipt of a Fulbright Scholarship is considered an exceptional honor for the Scholar and for the parent university, which recognizes the Scholar’s distinguished standing and excellence in proves his subject and at the same time improves the international visibility of the mother university. recognition of influence.

Professional. Pawan said that utilizing this scholarship will surely give him a better understanding of American scientific culture through exposure to American education and pedagogy, the personal collaboration between Wesleyan and Hakewi, and the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural community of the United States. He also added that having used this award, he returns to Haryana Central with an expanded worldview, a deeper appreciation for the American higher education system and its people, and a new network of collaborators with the potential to expand the higher education landscape. Will return to university. The scholarships and the associated scientific and cultural exchange will certainly help to further strengthen the benchmarking of teaching and research at the Central University of Haryana.

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