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Pharmaceuticals and Personal care products: a new entrant in the world of waste

Pharmaceuticals and Personal care products: a new entrant in the world of waste

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Pharmaceuticals and Personal care products: a new entrant in the world of waste
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<strong>SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY </strong> a talk on <strong>Pharmaceuticals and Personal care products: a new entrant in the world of waste</strong> Speaker: <strong>Prof. Syed E. Hasan</strong> Professor Emeritus, Environmental Geoscience, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, USA. Date: <strong>3rd February 2016 (Wednesday)</strong> <strong>Abstract: </strong>Modern society uses thousands of chemicals in a wide variety of consumer products that not only put a heavy demand on the finite resources of the earth but also require careful management of the waste that is generated at every step of the life cycle of the product. While the municipal solid and hazardous wastes have received due attention and, to a great extent, are being managed in an environmentally-sound manner, the emerging category of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) that are getting ubiquitous in the environmental have received little or no attention. The presentations will discuss the universe of PPCPs, their sources, pathways, and environmental fate. Potential adverse health effects associated with PPCPs presence in the environmental media will be addressed, and a brief review of current research to deal with the issue will be included in the presentation.

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.