[Assam] Amarjyoti Choudhury new GU VC(The assam Tribune, 17.09.2006)

[Manoj Das]

Will eh be able to make GU a Centre of Excellemce..!!

On 9/18/06, Mridul Bhuyan <mridul_mb at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  Great news. Thanks.
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> Mridul
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> *Buljit Buragohain <buluassam at yahoo.co.in>* wrote:
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>  GUWAHATI, Sept 16 – Noted physicist Dr Amarjyoti Choudhury is the next
> Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Gauhati University (GU). An order issued from
> Rajbhawan and signed by Governor Ajai Singh, who is also the Chancellor of
> the University, yesterday and received here today, said that Dr Choudhury
> has been appointed the Vice-Chancellor of the University 'with effect from
> the date of taking over charge'.
> When contacted this afternoon, Dr Choudhury told this newspaper that he
> would prepare a road map for the development of the University consulting
> its students and the teachers. Though he has some ideas of his own for the
> development of the University, he would always give preference to the
> collective wisdom, he added.
> According to the sources close to him, his priority will be in making
> immediate arrangements for student placement and counseling. By bringing
> order and discipline to the organization, he wants to turn the university
> into a front ranking university of India and Southeast Asia as well, said
> the sources.
> Eldest of the four sons of former Education Minister, noted litterateur
> and thespian Late Lakshyadhar Choudhury and Late Usha Choudhury, Dr
> Choudhury is the present Head of the Department of Physics, Tezpur
> University. He mixes teaching and research in frontier areas like
> nanotechnology or quantum electronics with discussions or performance of
> drama and poetry. Dr Choudhury has versatile qualities. On the one hand, he
> is invited as a visiting professor at the European Laboratory or Nonlinear
> Spectroscopy at University of Florence to head an international research
> project on innovative multiphoton microscopy, on the other, noted theatre
> groups like the Surya stages his plays like Bhoy or Tongighar. He is also
> known for his recitations of the poems composed by some of the famous
> Assamese poets or by him. He also directed his students in the acclaimed
> play Durbol Dolong.
> Dr Choudhury topped the list of the successful students in the 1966 HSLC
> examination conducted by the SEBA. An M Sc in Physics from the Delhi
> University, Dr Choudhury did his Ph D from the University of Oxford. He has
> around 70 scientific papers to his credit and these papers were published in
> the national and international journals.
> He served the University of Florence, Nuclear Science Centre and the
> University of Bucharest as visiting professor. He introduced the M Sc course
> in Nanoscience and technology at Tezpur University, which was the first such
> course in a Indian university. He is also known as an excellent orator and
> quizmaster. He has also authored several essays on the university system.
> (The Assam Tribune,17.09.2006)
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