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Multifaceted Jishma, a gold medalist in MA (political science) from AUS with 75% marks in 2019, is not only a trained Bharatnatyam dancer but a creative writer too. She had proved her mettle by securing second position in Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister’s Running Trophy debate competition as a member of AUS as part of National Press Day-2018 celebration.
She has been contributing article to this daily and her article – Women empowerment key to Arunachal development (10.01.19) – had drawn mass attention. She came from Kerala with her parents in 2004 while studying in class-II and adopted this state as her home to be a role model. The university informed about the award on Wednesday, Jishma told this daily.
Dr Jha, with a PhD in organic chemistry from Central Research Lab-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, is equally talented. She joined AUS in 2019 with rich academic and industry experiences from Germany & USA besides India.
A synthetic organic chemist by profession, she has been working in green and sustainable chemical technologies, agrochemicals, drug development, global climate change, carbon capture, polymer chemistry & nanotechnology and passionately involved in skill development & career guidance of NE youths.
A compassionate soul and keen in brining positive changes in the society, she has been working to improve lot of NE people while guiding PhD scholars, research works, besides publishing patents, research articles and reviewing scientific papers of many international journals.