Infrastructure Facilities
- Lecture theatres equipped with multimedia projectors
- All laboratories, classrooms, faculty rooms and offices of department have high speed internet connectivity
- The faculty members have individual laboratories equipped with required gadgets
- Student labs. house thermal cyclers, UV Spectrophotometer, Multimedia Projector, Projection microscope, Deep freezer, Cameras, Stereo-zoom binoculars, BOD incubators, Microtomes, Insect show-case cabinets, and Light microscopes
- Common research laboratory houses Image Processing Unit, High Resolution Microscopes, Fluorescent Microscope and Phase Contrast Microscope
- A well-equipped PCR laboratory for molecular work, which includes thermal cyclers, deep freezers, microtomes, gel electrophoresis units and gel-doc system
- Computer laboratory for students houses computers with latest configuration
Future Prospects
The department plans to focus on an integrative approach encompassing the various disciplines in organismal biology (Evolutionary Biology, Chemical and Molecular Ecology, Epigenetics, Molecular Biology and Developmental Biology).
Scholarships
DR. D.S. SIDHU MEMORIAL AWARD
Cash award of ₹5,000/ each will be given to a student (admitted under Rural Area category) of M.Sc. Zoology first year semester I and II, who will be on the top of the merit list under the above mentioned category for that particular semester (sponsored by Dr. Raj Uppal, MD a former alumnus of the department).
DR. J.P. SINGH MEMORIAL RESEARCH AWARD
Cash award of ₹10,000/- is given to a registered research scholar of the department every year for conducting exemplary research work. For this award, the researchers are primarily evaluated on the basis of scientific and practical significance of their research (sponsored by Dr. Raj Uppal, MD a former alumnus of the department).
DR. S.S. DHILLON GOLDEN JUBILEE AWARD
Cash award of ₹ 5000/- is given to a best student selected by the faculty from M.Sc. IInd year
(sponsored by Dr. Raj Uppal, MD a former alumnus of the department).
DEPARTMENTAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
The departmental merit scholarship ₹500/- per month is granted to a student admitted at first rank in the order of merit. In the subsequent year, it is awarded on the basis of the result of the preceding examination.
DR. HIRA SINGH DEOL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
The scholarship is awarded to a student, who is at number one position on the basis of admission criteria. The amount of scholarship is ₹1000/- per month and the duration of scholarship is two years. If the selected student refuses to accept this scholarship or leaves his/her studies, the same is awarded to the next student in the order of merit.
GOYAL FOUNDATION TOPPER AWARD
Goyal Foundation Topper Award is granted every year to a topper student of Post-graduate courses under the faculties of life Sciences/Physical Sciences and Economics. The award carries a cash prize of ₹4000/.