World Environment Day Celebration 2016

Date: 07.06.2016, 08.06.2016

Venue: St.Paul’s College Campus and seminar hall

World environment day was celebrated in the month of June by cleaning the premises of the

department and laboratory.. Faculty and students jointly planted tree

saplings in the vicinity of UG laboratory to create awareness about

environment protection. World environment day celebrations were

jointly organized by the dept. of chemistry ,ENCON Club and

KSCSTE, Govt of Kerala.In connection with the event essay

competition and painting competitions were organized.

Ozone Day Celebration

Date: 13.09.2016, 14.09.2016

Venue: Seminar Hall, St.Paul’s College

Ozone day was celebrated in September 2016 by the Department of Chemistry and ENCON

sponsored by with Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE)

,Govt. of Kerala. An invited talk ,painting competition, PPT competition, quiz etc. were

organised in connection with Ozone day celebration. Baiju K P ,Asst Professor ,Department

of Chemistry, Bharathmata College,Thrikkakara was the resource person for the programme.

Students and faculty members from various department participated in the programme and

made it’s a grant success.

Protect Mangalavanam(The lung of Kochi city) Campaign at Mangalavanam

Date: 03.10.2016

Wildlife Week is celebrated all over the country in the month of October from 2nd to 8th

October every year with the view to preserve the fauna . The day was celebrated by the

students and faculty of Department of Chemistry of St. Paul's College, Kalamassery by

visiting the Mangalavanam is an ecologically sensitive area situated at the centre of Kochi

city, covering about 2.74 . Managalavanam is often regarded as the "green lung of

Kochi", considering its role in keeping the city's air pollution under check. This extension

activity was in collaboration with the Chemistry club of the college. Students and teachers

jointly took the pledge to protect our environment and also cleaned the premises of the

Mangalavanam.

Visit to ISRO – SPACE EXPO

Date: October 4 , 2016

Venue: ISRO – SPACE EXPO Hall, Ernakulam

The student of first year along with two faculty members visited the space expo organized by

ISRO which helped them to gather elementary knowledge about space science and their

applications. The objective of the visit is to develop a scientific aptitude in girls and to

familiarize them with the various opportunities which could be grabbed by them in the

space field.

Invited Talk on Statistical Thermodynamics

Date: 24.11.2016 and 28.11.2016

Resource Person: Dr. Jude Mendez Assoc. Professor St. Albert’s College, Ernakulam

Report: Invited Talk on Statistical Thermodynamics was organized by the Department of

Chemistry on 24.11.2016 & 28.11.2016. The main focus of the talk was to give a deep

knowledge on the statistical thermodynamics to PG students.

Wetland Day Celebration

Date: February 8 and 9, 2017.

Venue: St.Paul’s College Campus and Kadamakkudy, Cherai.

The Wetland Day – 2017 was celebrated in the college on 8th and 9th of February

2017 in the College. The program was organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, St. Paul's

College, Co-ordinated by Asst. Prof. Mr. Texin Joseph, ably guided by Dr. Rose Philo, Dept

Head and Dr.V J Peter, Principal, St. Paul's College on the theme “Wetlands for Disaster Risk

Reduction”. The agenda of the program was to make awareness about the importance of the

wetlands and its protection. Resource person of the event, Dr. Martin, Post Doctoral Fellow ,

KUFOS, Panangad gave a talk on the importance and necessity of protection of wetlands wa.

A field visit was arranged to Kadamakudy and Njarakkal wet land area followed by the talk

for selected students. It gave a live experience to realise the importance of wetlands and had

broaden the knowledge of the team. It loaded the students with both knowledge and

pleasure. Being released in close touch with the nature, it was capable to get along with

bustle of our life learning ,the importance of nature.

STUDENT TEACHER PROGRAMME

Date : 10/01/2017

Venue : HMT School, Kalamassery

Report

As part of outreach programmes organized by the department of

Chemistry and Chemistry Club, Faculty along with the B.Sc.

Chemistry final year students visited HMT School, Kalamassery. Our

students took classes for the students inVIIIth, IXth and Xth standards.

They demonstrated various experiments of chemistry in their syllabus

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Oil and Gas conservation Fort night (OGCF) observation

Date: February 3, 2017

Venue: Seminar Hall and Department of Chemistry, St.Paul’s College

As a part of Oil and Gas conservation Fort night (OGCF) observation all over india, The

Department of Chemistry in association with ENCON CLUB of St.Pauls College celebrated

the same, Saksham 2017 in a benefitting manner to make the students aware about the need

and importance of energy conservation .An oil and gas conservation pledge was taken by the

students. The club also conducted quiz, essay writing and painting (Theme: Hungry Earth)

competitions for the students as a part of OGCF -2017 celebrations. Cash prize and merit

certificates were issued by BPCL, Kochi.

Salad Presentation Competition

Date: 21.03.2017

A salad presentation competition was organized by the department of Chemistry for the open

course students in Food science as well as for chemistry students. Varieties of healthy, easy

to make, non-cooked salads were beautifully presented by the students