Govt’s hire-expat professor scheme a hit with varsities

By Brajesh Kumar. Jodhpur scholar Poonam Sharma often craved to meet international experts in nanomaterial synthesis after studying their research papers. 
So, when Prof Timothy Fisher from Purdue University in the US, whose work in the field is well known, arrived at her institute under the HRD ministry’s Global Initiative for Academic Network (GIAN) programme on a week-long lecture tour, the chemistry PhD student was ecstatic. More...