Department of Chemistry is proud to announce that Mr M V R Akshay Sampath, 3rd year BSc. Chemistry student has been selected for the HEST Scholarship, India’s largest Higher Education Scholarship Test powered by WeMakeScholars, an organisation funded and supported by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India under the ‘Digital India’ campaign. Through this scholarship, Mr Sampath is eligible for scholarship funding of ₹3 lakhs, which can be utilized towards tuition fees, academic expenses, or travel costs for higher education.
Along with academics, Akshay is working in the functional nanomaterials laboratory under the supervision of Dr Sabyasachi Chakrabortty and in computational chemistry research under the supervision of Dr Baswanth V S Oruganti, Chanakya University, Bangalore. This opportunity significantly supports his aspirations for higher education and research in the branches of bio-photonics and material science in the top research-intensive universities globally in countries like Germany, UK, Ireland, and the USA.