The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : `Fine Answers' from March 24

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Thursday, Mar 23, 2006

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`Fine Answers' from March 24

LIKE EVERY YEAR, R.V. College of Engineering's RV QuizCorp has arranged its annual national level quiz fest called "Under the Peepal Tree `06" at the R.V. Teachers' College in Jayanagar from March 24 to 26.

"Fine Answers", the corporate quiz, is part of the fest, and will be held at The Atria Hotel with knowledge consultant, Avinash Mudaliar as the quizmaster.

The annual quiz attracts teams every year from prestigious institutions such as the Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management, Regional Engineering Colleges, National Law School of India University and Indian Institute of Science.

On an average, about 80 teams participate in each college quiz.

Last year's edition of "Fine Answers" had over 70 corporate teams from south India battle it out for the top honour.

For more on this year's quiz, call Anucheth on 9844243661 or email utpt06@gmail.com. Website: www.rvquizcorp.com

Nurturing talent

TO NURTURE and encourage budding quizzing talent in the college, RV QuizCorp organises weekly quizzes and meetings, usually held at "On The Rocks" in Cubbon Park.

Topics for these meetings range from popular subjects such as Music and Sports to highly specific and specialised subjects such as Harry Potter and Combat aircraft.

Besides these regular quizzes, an annual event called "Funda-Mental" is conducted to determine the best team in college.

The RV QuizCorp members have won quiz contests held at national-level fests organised by Indian Institutes of Technology, Mumbai and Chennai, NLSIU, NIT Suratkal, MIT Manipal and IIM Bangalore.

Two teams, comprising four members each, have been featured on the popular BBC quiz show "University challenge" hosted by Siddharth Basu.

According to the schedule for this year's quiz, the General Quiz and India Quiz will be held on March 24 while the Sci-Tech Quiz and Sports Quiz will be conducted on March 25.

The Audio-Visual Quiz is scheduled for March 26, the same day as "Fine Answers".

Annual Day

For the Government R.C. College of Commerce and Management, its Annual Day and Farewell for outgoing undergraduate and postgraduate students on Wednesday was a time to take stock of the college's academic record.

Minister for Small-scale Industries and Sericulture Kattasubramanya Naidu, as chief guest on the occasion, was happy about the overall progress of the college, but wanted it to improve its B.Com results.

The college authorities had urged him to impress upon the Government the need for additional rooms, a postgraduate block and more faculty members. Prizes were distributed to winners of sports and cultural activities of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the occasion. One student from each course was selected on the basis of merit as "best outgoing student." Workshop

The Bangalore University Department of Botany has organised a one-week training programme on "Bioinformatics" for college teachers of Life Sciences in June. The programme is sponsored by the Union Department of Biotechnology.The workshop will be held at UGC Academic Staff College, Central College. Those interested can apply on or before April 3. For details, contact coordinator D. Anusuya on ph: 25362320 or 9845154456.

Research fellow

Bangalore University has invited applications from candidates with M.Sc. in Environmental Science or B.E. / M.E. in Environmental Engineering to work as a Research Fellow in the Griffith University sponsored programme on "Management of electronic wastes" leading to a Ph.D. degree. The programme is for three years at the Griffith University in Australia.

The Research Fellow will be initially exempted from payment of all fees. Interested candidates can contact R.K. Somashekhar, Department of Environmental Science, Bangalore University. Visit the Bangalore University website for application forms and other details.

The last date for receipt of filled in forms is March 31, a university release said.

RASHEED KAPPAN

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