Student Achievements
The Project ECHO
WWF India engages youth enrolled in universities/colleges to ideate, design, develop and implement their conservation projects around a yearly theme to address the most pressing environmental issue. Echo provides a platform and WWF-India harnesses their energy and intent by working closely with youth by giving them direction, knowledge, know-how, skills. Echo is a programme for the youth and by the youth. It gives them freedom to decide what they wish to do, how they want to do. The theme for the Echo programme is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and focuses on most pressing environmental issue of the year.
The Theme for ECHO 2020-21: CHANGE THE WAY WE CONSUME FOOD Asutosh College was declared the state winners along-with 6 other colleges from 5 other states out of 72 colleges from 11 states.
Students publication:
Shouvanik Sengupta 4th Sem, PG Ghosh P., Chakraborty A. and Sengupta S. (2021). Winter avifaunal assemblage in a periurban agricultural landscape of Gangetic West Bengal, India. Ecology, Environment and Conservation. 27 (1): pp. 323-331.
Internship
| Name of the Student | Semester | Organization |
|---|---|---|
Sutirtha Roy |
4th Sem, PG |
CSIR, India Started on 5.06.2020 (2 Months) |
Sutirtha Roy |
4th Sem, PG |
Harvard Medical School Started on 10.08.2021 (4 Months) |
Debjit Dey |
4th Sem, PG |
Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata |
Shreya Tripathi |
4th Sem, PG |
Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata Started on 12.09.2021 (4 Months) |
Debjani Dey |
4th Sem, PG |
Zoological Survey of India 1.09.2021 (6 month) |
Departmental Students, Alumnus together jointly developed some creative projects in order to shift their focus from stressful pandemic period and expanded their versatile ability through lenses and senses.
1. Short film produced by students reflecting the Bengali Psyche of Goddess Durgas Divine coming in earthly entity which symbolizes of arrival of Daughter in her paternal house- Titled Agamani (The Home Coming) (https://youtu.be/Kmco_0sq05M)-Direction and Screenplay: Debjit Roy; Acting: Sunayana Bhowmik, Sandipan Paul (alumnus) Nilofa Roy, Debjit Roy, Sutirtha Roy (Postgraduation students), Music and Vocal: Pubali Bhattacharya (Alumnus).
2. Musical Narrative on the female characters created by Rabindranath Tagore in order to rediscover their Heroics that often can be correlated with the concept of humane goddess - True power of womanhood - (https://youtu.be/NTddVpymsfI)-Concept and Directed by-Abhishikta Bhattacharya (3rd Year Zoology Honours)