Raghavendra S Hebbar, PhD Scholor in the Department of Chemistry (under the guidance of Dr Arun M Isloor) received the Third Prize for the best poster presentation award in the International Conference on "Recent Advances in Material and Chemical Sciences" held at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi during March 2-5, 2016. The title of the paper was "Preparation and charactarisation of well dispersed polydopamine modified halloysite nanotube immobilised polyetherimide membrane for heavy metal ion rejection"