Research

Professor Indira Nath is a world renowned authority on leprosy and a recipient of Padma Shri (1999) for her contribution to the field of immunology.

Highly regarded in scientific circles and admired as a woman of great character, Anna was one of India's early feminists.

Sunita Williams is the second woman of Indian origin after the late Kalpana Chawla to go into space after being selected by NASA.

Small-college facilities, perplexing problems, dangerous chemicals - nothing would stop the nun from her award-winning research.

“As a child, I was always tinkering, always taking apart the telephone and figuring out how things work.”

Deb Agarwal was honored in the May 2000 cover story of Upside magazine as one of the Top 25 Women of the Web. She received the award for her work to provide reliable multicast communication for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty monitoring system.

"Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal, and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself" - Kalpana Chawla.

Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. She was one of the seven crew members tragically killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster.

Born in Karnal, India, in the year 1961, she was the youngest of the four children. From her earliest childhood, Kalpana and her brother shared an interest in flying. Kalpana's father would take the two siblings to the flying club where the sight of the airplanes from the first mail flights of J.R.D Tata quite intrigued Kalpana and captivated her imagination.