Anis Fatema, a Ph.D scholar working under the supervision of Dr. Aftab Hussain at the Center for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology (CVEST) won second prize at Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR- 2022) under the Ph.D category for her popular science story on Breaking the Walls of Chronic Back Pain. The prize carried a cash prize of Rs 50,000.
Anis Fatema’s story was selected from 2200+ entries. She was felicitated during the celebration of National Science Day (NSD) on 28 February at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. AWSAR is a new initiative conceptualised and supported by the National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC) Division, Department of Science and Technology (DST) that aims to disseminate Indian research stories among the masses in an easy-to-understand and interesting format to a common man.
For more details and winners of the competition: https://www.awsar-dst.in/
March 2023