Prof. Kasturi Datta, School of Environmental Sciences have been bestowed UGC National Hari Om Ashram Trust Award Jagdish Chandra Bose Award for Life Sciences for the year 2005.

Prof. Vaishna Narang, Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, has been appointed as a member of the Executive Council of the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped and is also a member of the Braille Council of India.

Prof. Kiran Chaudhary, Centre for French and Francophone Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies was conferred the prestigious French National Award Called "Officer dans 1’Ordre des Palmes Academiques" (Officer of the Order of Academic Palms) for her contribution to the promotion of French Language and Culture in India, in a formal ceremony held at the French Ambassador’s residence on 29 July, 2009. The Order of the Academic Palms is one of the oldest civil awards in the world. It was originally created by Napoleon in 1808 to honour eminent members of the Universities of France.

Dr. Seema Bathla, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, has been awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Post-Graduate Agricultural Research for the year 2008 for outstanding research in the field of Social Sciences.

Dr. Sanjay Bhardwaj, Centre for South Central Southeast Asian & Southwest Pacific Studies, School of International Studies has been awarded "Sir Ratan Tata Fellowship 2009-10" by London School of Economics and Political Science, London.

Al Gore trains people from the region at The Climate Project Asia - Pacific Summit 13 July 2009, JNU Student Irfan Ahmad was among 261 people trained by Mr. Al Gore at The Climate Project Asia Pacific Summit in Melbourne from July 11th - 13th .At the AP Summit Mr. Gore, Australian Conservation Foundation Executive Director Don Henry and eminent scientist Dr Graeme Pearman trained people from 19 countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. As a delegate Irfan was trained to communicate directly with his community in order to generate momentum for the best possible outcome at Copenhagen climate change UN negotiations in December this year. The AP Summit brought together people from the world's largest economies to smallest and most vulnerable island states. Many of these people are living in regions impacted by the climate crisis.

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