Abstract

On Feb. 5, a delegation of ACS journal editors and editorial staff attended a Nobel Prize Series 2018 event hosted by Indian President Ram Nath Kovind at his official residence. The event brought Nobel laureates, government officials, policy-makers, and representatives from academia and industry together to develop an action plan and policy for building better universities and research institutions in India. The ACS delegation included journal editors Kirk Schanze, Vincent Rotello, Thalappil Pradeep, Ashutosh Sharma, and Krishna Ganesh as well as ACS editorial staff Anirban Mahapatra and Deeksha Gupta. Four Nobel laureates—Richard J. Roberts, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Serge Haroche, and Tomas Lindahl—participated in the program. “Keeping pace with this investment in science, we have also invested in people through our institutions of higher education,” Kovind said in his remarks. “In almost a decade, we have created several central universities, the Indian Institutes of Technology, the All India Instit...

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