TNAU Student Won "Best Poster" Award
A girl student of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) here has won the "Best Poster" award during an international conference on magnetic materials and their applications in 21st century. V S Susha, doing MSc (Agronomy), received the award at the conference organised by the Magnetic Society of India held from October 21-23, 2008 at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi. More than 500 delegates from national and international institutes attended this conference.
The award was presented by MPL Director Dr Vikram Kumar. Susha won the award for her paper on "mitigating atrazine herbicide residue in soil using iron oxide nanoparticles doped with silver and palladium nanoparticles and with different stabilizing agents".