TWO SECOND year students pursuing Masters Programme in Cognitive Science at Allahabad University's (AU) Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS) have done the varsity proud.
One of them, Farah Naaz, has secured admission in the PhD programme at the University of Louisville's Department of Brain and Psychological Sciences, KY, USA and will be getting an annual fellowship worth $37,000 to pursue her research.
Her colleague, Neha Khetrapal, has been selected for a summer school starting June-2006 at Vivian Smith Advanced Studies Institute of the International Neuropsychological Society at Xylocastro in Greece. Neha will get a stipend of $1500.
It is to be recalled that two other students, who passed out from CBCS last year, are currently pursuing their PhDs at Texas University, USA and McMaster University, Canada respectively.
Farah Naaz, who is working in the area of visual perception, is ecstatic over her success. "CBCS is unique in its way as its extensive programme not only equips us with all the essential knowledge of the field but provides us excellent opportunities. Moreover the atmosphere at the Centre is always so much academically charged up and motivating that a student ends up giving her very best," she said.
A BSc in Botany and Zoology from AU, Farah credits her parents and her teacher Dr Narayanan Srinivasan's confidence in her and their encouragement with her success.
{{/usCountry}}A BSc in Botany and Zoology from AU, Farah credits her parents and her teacher Dr Narayanan Srinivasan's confidence in her and their encouragement with her success.
{{/usCountry}}Neha, who holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology (Honours) from the prestigious Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi is presently working in the area of development of attention. "The CBCS has helped me to grow academically as well as personally. It has given me the knowledge and confidence not only to compete with national but also international students".
Neha says that attending summer school will be academically rewarding for her and would help her study the development of attention in depth as she would be attending courses on the life span development of attention in normal and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) persons.
"I owe my success to my Professors Dr Narayanan Srinivasan and Dr Bhoomika R Kar who were always there when I needed their guidance; my husband Sumit Vaish and father Ranjan Khetrapal, who have always supported me in whatever I have done. My success would not have been possible without them," she added.