Thirty-three doctorate degrees were conferred at the 22nd annual convocation of Goa University on Tuesday.
The degrees were conferred by the Chancellor of the University and Governor of Goa Dr SS Sidhu in the presence of President of India Pratibha Patil and other dignitaries.
The largest number of Ph.D degrees are 17 in the faculty of Life Sciences & Environment followed by eight in Natural Sciences.
In the faculty of languages and literature, Govind Kajrekar has done PhD in Marathi and Shambu Babay Prabhudesai in Hindi.
There were three PhD candidates in Social Sciences faculty: Roshida Rodrigues (Philosphy), Mrs Blanche Fernandes e Mascarenhas and Manasvi Kamat – both in economics.
In the faculty of natural sciences, eight candidates were awarded PhD in Chemistry. These include Bailancho Saad convenor and activist Sabina Martins, the others being Jose Menezes, Sulaksha Parab, Jyoti Sawant Savia Torres and Rupesh Patre. Animesh Adhikari did his doctorate in Computer Science & technology and Rajendra Gad in Electronics (physics).
In the Faculty of Sciences and Environment, nine were awarded PhD in marine science, namely – Aneesh Lotlikar, Paul Jane Theophile, Veronica Fernandes, Dona Souza Ticlo, Deepti gauns Desai, Sanitha Sivadas, Varada Damare, Sree Kumar and Manoj N T.
There were four in Microbiology – Mondher Thabit Abdo Numan, Prakash Munnoli, Vidya Ramachandran and Anand Jain.
The other PhD candidates in the faculty include Janet Flavy Vaz and Radhika K P – both in Botany. Chindarkar Vaibhav Gajanan in Biotechnology and Nandini Korgaonkar in Zoology.
Rocky William Rebello is the only one in Commerce while there were two in Management Studies – Tejashree Colvalcar and Barnabas N.
Fifty six others were awarded prizes, scholarships and medals for excelling in graduation and post-graduation levels.
Commenting on the doctorates conferred, the President of India Pratibha Patil said the list consisted of more girls than girls. This, she said, is a good sign of progress. Nonetheless, she said the boys shouldn’t lag behind in such academic pursuits.
The President advised the PhD awardees to make good use of their education and be an asset to the nation.
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