Prof. Dr. P. Venuvanalingam Endowment @ Bishop Heber College
An Endowment in the name of Prof.Ponnambalam Venuvanalingam has been instituted in Bishop Heber College (BHC) to organize motivational lectures on frontier areas of chemistry by Eminent Scientists every year for the benefit of UG,PG and research students of BHC and other colleges of Bharathidasan University. The endowment has been created as a part of the activity of the Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry: Frontiers and Challenges (STCC-FC) that was jointly organized by the School of Chemistry and students of Professor P.Venuvanalingam during June 14&15, 2013 to felicitate him on the occasion of his 60th birthday. This was done in honor of his 25 long years of research career in Theoretical and computational chemistry in Bhrathidasan University, with Prof. R.Renganathan Bharathidasan university as the Convenor and Prof. G. Rajaraman, IITB,Mumbai as the Academic Convenor of the Symposium. There were twenty two invited lectures by renowned scientists from India and abroad and 170 researchers from all parts of India participated in the Symposium and the event was fully sponsored and supported by private industries. The Principal and the Management of BHC has readily agreed to the proposal to institute the endowment in their college and thus the endowment was formally initiated in January 2014 during the International Conference(ICMB-2014) organized in BHC.