Vidyavati

Vidyavati, former Vice-Chancellor, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India was born on September 15, 1939, in Goud community. She is President of Phycological Society of India.

Early Life and Education

She did schooling from Bansilal Balika Vidyalaya, Begum Bazaar, in Hindi medium, and Marathi as second language, and passed HSC in the year 1955. In 1957, She did her Intermediate with English medium at Koti Women’s College. In 1959, She passed B.SC in first division from the same college with Botany, Zoology and Chemistry. In 1961, for post-graduation in M.Sc Botany, She joined the Department of Botany of Osmania University, and passed in first division.

She was awarded Ph.D for her thesis on ‘Experimental and Cytological Studies on Certain Desmids’ from Osmania University in the year 1967 under the able guidance of Prof. Jafar Nizam and Prof. M.R. Saxena.

As most of the literature was in German, She enrolled for German classes for a period of three years and passed Senior and Junior Diploma in German Language at Arts College, Osmania University, from 1963 - 65.

Her area of specialization is Hydrobiology, Phycology, Cytology and Ultrastructure Ecology.

Career

In 1966, She was appointed temporary lecturer in Osmania University, Hyderabad.
In 1968, She was appointed permanent lecturer and posted at P.G. Centre of Osmania University at Warangal, which later on, in the year 1974, went on to become Kakatiya University.
Further, serving the same university, She became Reader and Professor and Head in the Department of Botany(1990).
She assumed charge as Vice-Chancellor of the University on 6 May 1998.^[1]

Research

She did one year Post-Doctoral research as a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London, UK., with Prof. John D. Dodge and took training for three months on the processing of Biological Material for Electron Microscopy.^[2]^[3]
She did her Post-Doctoral Research with Dr. J. Sulek at the Institute of Microbiology, Trebon, Czechoslovakia.^[2]
She also visited various institutions at Oxford, Cambridge, France, Czechoslovakia, Bratislava and Toronto.
As Professor of Botany, She visited United Kingdom during 1980 - 81 under Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship.
She also attended British Phycological meeting at Liverpool, United Kingdom.^[2]
She visited Czechoslovakia under Indo-Czech Cultural Exchange Programme during 1984 - 85.
She visited Canada to participate at the Association of commonwealth Universities General conference of the Executive Heads during August 1998.
Presented a paper on "Institutional Leadership and Management of Change", South Korea, Seoul and Participated in the International Conference of University Presidents held at Suwon campus of Kyung Hee University during October 10–13, 1999.
Her research experience is of 36 years. So far, she have guided 25 Ph.Ds and two M. Phils. She published ten books.^[4]

Offices held

President, Phycological Society of India.^[5]
Associate Editor of Seaweed Research and Utilization, an international Journal.^[6]^[7]

Chairperson, National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore.^[8]^[9]
National Advisory Committee, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies, Hyderabad.^[10]
Associate Editor, Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health, USA.^[11]
Research Board of Advisors for American Biographical Institute, 1999.

Awards and Honours

Vidyavati felicitated on Telangana formation Day

She was honoured with Best Women Scientist award in 2000 at IICT, Hyderabad, and was awarded Gold Medal by Plant Science Association, Uttar Pradesh.
She was felicitated in A "National Seminar on Current Trends in Biotechnology" organized by the Department of Biotechnology, Lal Bahadur College, Warangal on 30 November and 1 December 2007.<ref name= National Seminar on Current Trends in Biotechnology" organized by the Department of Biotechnology, Lal Bahadur College, Warangal.2007 >"National Seminar on Current Trends in Biotechnology" organized by the Department of Biotechnology, Lal Bahadur College, Warangal.2007.". Retrieved 25 August 2015. </ref>
She was also Guest of honour in various National and International Seminars.<ref name=National Symposium on" Algal Bio-diversity and its role in bio-remediation">"National Symposium on" Algal Bio-diversity and its role in bio-remediation". Vivekananda Institute of Algal Technology. 2006.". Retrieved 25 August 2015. </ref>

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She was honoured with YSRK Sharma Gold Medal by the Society for Plant Research, Bareilly.
On September 22, 2007, She was given Lifetime Achievement Award in Chennai.
On June 2, 2015, the district administration of Warangal and Kadiyam Srihari felicitated her on the occasion of Telangana Formation Day celebrations.^[17]

References

↑ "Former Vice-chancellors, Kakatiya University.". Retrieved 24 September 2015.
1 2 3 "Perspectives in Biotechnology.". Retrieved 24 September 2015.
↑ "Mucilage interference in desmids under Sem.". Retrieved 25 September 2015.
↑ "Department of Botany, Kakatiya University.". Retrieved 27 September 2015.
↑ "Indian Phycological Society.". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
↑ "Editorial Board. Seaweed Research and Utilization Association.". Retrieved 25 August 2015.
↑ "Seaweed Research and Utilization Association". Retrieved 25 August 2015.
↑ "NAAC Report, The T K M College of Arts & Science, Kollam". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
↑ "NAAC Report, IDSG Government College, Chikmagalur, Karnataka". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
↑ "National Advisory Committee, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies". Retrieved 27 August 2015.
↑ "About Vidyavati (ed.). Perspectives in Biotechnology". Retrieved 27 August 2015.
↑ "National seminar on “Recent Advances in Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Technology”, 2009.". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
↑ "National seminar on “Modern Trends in Plant”, 2010". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
↑ "National seminar on “Plant Sciences and Human Welfare”, 2010". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
↑ "National seminar on empowerment of women, 2012". Retrieved 25 September 2015.
↑ "National Symposium on “Algae for Human Welfare”, (AFHW-2015)." (PDF). Retrieved 25 September 2015.
↑ "Vidyavati among other officials felicitated on Telangana formation Day ( 2nd June, 2015).". Retrieved 27 September 2015.