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3.1.9. Details on the College initiative in transferring/advocating the relative
findings of research of the College and elsewhere to the students and the
community (lab to land).

Publication of research findings is the most important vehicle for transmitting
research knowledge to knowledge seekers elsewhere.
 Many of the papers published by our faculty are in high impact journals. Sharing of
knowledge through various media enhances quality of teaching and learning.
Involvement in research has impacted class room pedagogy with the nature of
assignments given to students, lab experiments done, certificate courses offered and
selection of topics for term papers.
 Sharing their knowledge in their field of research at seminars and conferences is a
powerful tool for disseminating research findings with larger academic community
in the city, state, national and international levels making their effort beneficial to
all. Students too present papers in seminars and conferences.
 Departments such as Social Work directly interact with community and incorporate
their research findings into their class rooms. All social sciences teachers use
research based assignments. Department of Botany has developed an experimental
forest. It has worked on biocontrol agent trichoderma that controls pathogens of
crop plants. The experiment is at a stage where it may be applied on land.

3.1.10. Give details on the faculty actively involved in research (Guiding student
research, leading research projects, engaged in individual or collaborative
research activity etc.)
Teachers are engaged in research related work at various levels. Some of them are as
follows:

*Guiding student research:
 As part of the undergraduate course, it is mandatory for students to present a term
paper based on research conducted in their final two semesters. Almost all teachers
are engaged in guiding students for research towards the term paper.
 The postgraduate departments supervise their students to carry out individual
research work in the form of dissertation.
 A few teachers have research projects and students work with them as project
interns completing their internship requirements and at the same time learning to
carry out research.

*Guiding doctoral research:
Two departments of the College namely Botany and Chemistry are recognized
research centers of Bangalore University. Table 3.4 lists the teachers from these
departments registered with Bangalore University as doctoral research guides and the
number of PhD scholars guided.

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