{"id":425,"date":"2016-12-02T01:28:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T01:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/?p=425"},"modified":"2020-08-03T06:18:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T06:18:26","slug":"inaugural-prof-ram-kumar-prize-for-outstanding-teaching-and-research-at-iit-roorkee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/inaugural-prof-ram-kumar-prize-for-outstanding-teaching-and-research-at-iit-roorkee\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural Prof. Ram Kumar Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Research at IIT-Roorkee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a privilege and honor for us to have been able to support the creation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ramkumarfoundation.org\/prof-ram-kumar-prize-for-outstanding-teaching-and-research-at-iit-roorkee\/\">Annual&nbsp;Prof. Ram Kumar Prize<\/a>&nbsp;at IIT-Roorkee.&nbsp;The prize&nbsp;has been instituted&nbsp;by the Board of Governors and the Director of IIT-Roorkee&nbsp;to nurture and celebrate excellence in teaching and research.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ramkumar.agrawal-family.org\/\">Prof.&nbsp;Ram Kumar<\/a> was a highly regarded faculty&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Department of Mathematics in the then University of Roorkee in early 1960\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iitr.ac.in\/departments\/BT\/pages\/People+Faculty+paroyfbs.html\">Dr. Partha Roy<\/a>, Professor of Biotechnology, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-v-wk7SXT3eUllUSnEtaUJXZVk\/view?usp=sharing\">selected<\/a> to be&nbsp;the inaugural&nbsp;recipient of the Prof. Ram Kumar Prize by the committee appointed&nbsp;by the Director&nbsp;to screen and evaluate the nominations. &nbsp;Some information on innumerous accomplishments of Prof. Roy is available <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-v-wk7SXT3ed3Utb1lCYXoxWFk\/view?usp=sharing\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Roy has been&nbsp;presented with&nbsp;the award at the IIT-R Charter&nbsp;Day held on November 25, 2016. &nbsp;See&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ramkumarfoundation.org\/inaugural-prof-ram-kumar-prize-for-outstanding-teaching-and-research-at-iit-roorkee\/#comment-668\">here<\/a>&nbsp;an interview with Prof. Roy, discussing his most significant research accomplishments, his teaching philosophy, and his advice to young faculty. Look <a href=\"http:\/\/ramkumarfoundation.org\/inaugural-prof-ram-kumar-prize-for-outstanding-teaching-and-research-at-iit-roorkee\/#comment-670\">here<\/a> for some pictures of the award ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Our heartiest congratulations to Prof. Roy for winning this coveted award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ramkumarfoundation.agrawal-family.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hat_tip-e1414475659456.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-100 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ramkumarfoundation.agrawal-family.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hat_tip-e1414475659456-150x150.gif?resize=31%2C31\" alt=\"hat_tip\" width=\"31\" height=\"31\"><\/a>&nbsp; Prof. Ashok Misra (Chairman, BOG), Prof. Pradipta Banerji (Director), Prof. Sandeep Singh (Dean), Prof. Manoranjan Parida&nbsp;(Dean),&nbsp;Prof. Deepak Kashyap (Dean), Members of the Award Commitee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a privilege and honor for us to have been able to support the creation of the Annual&nbsp;Prof. Ram Kumar Prize&nbsp;at IIT-Roorkee.&nbsp;The prize&nbsp;has been instituted&nbsp;by the Board of Governors and the Director of IIT-Roorkee&nbsp;to nurture and celebrate excellence in teaching and research.&nbsp;Prof.&nbsp;Ram Kumar was a highly regarded faculty&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Department of Mathematics in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrawal-family.com\/ramkumarfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}