PhD student of DBS Mr. Manish Kumar Pathak, working under the supervision of Prof. Annagiri Sumana, has received a grant of $1000 from the Society for the study of Evolutionary Biology – an international body. This grant is given to conduct a workshop to school teachers to educate them regarding evolutionary Biology. Both theory and simple experiments that they can perform to teach the future generations.

He has received another grant for the amount of 4000 EUR from the European Society of Evolutionary Biology to conduct outreach activities. He plans to use this to educate potential teachers and select high school children regarding the subject of Evolution in West Bengal and Jharkhand.