Vidyavati

Vidyavati
Vidyavati (center) receiving Eminent Women award from Telangana Government
Born (1939-09-15) 15 September 1939
TitleVice-Chancellor (retired)
Board member of
Awards
  • Best Women Scientist (2000)
  • Gold Medal by Plant Science Association (2007)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award in Chennai (2007)
  • International Women’s Day recognition (2017)
Academic background
ThesisExperimental and Cytological Studies on Certain Desmids (1967)
Doctoral advisorProfs. Jafar Nizam and M.R. Saxena
Academic work
DisciplineBotany
Sub-disciplineHydrobiology, phycology, cytology and ultrastructure ecology
InstitutionsKakatiya University

Vidyavati (born 15 September 1939) is a former Vice-Chancellor, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India. She is President of Phycological Society of India and was honored by Telangana State Government as Eminent Women on 8 March 2017, on the occasion of "International Women's Day" celebrations.[1]

Career

  • In 1968, she was appointed permanent lecturer and posted at P.G. Centre of Osmania University at Warangal, which later on, in the year 1974, become Kakatiya University.[2]
  • She assumed charge as Vice-Chancellor of the University on 6 May 1998 for a period of three years.[3]

Research

She was a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at Royal Holloway, Belford College and University College London, where she received three months of training in biological material processing for electron microscopy with Prof. John D. Dodge.[4][5][6] She did post-doctoral research with Dr. J. Sulek at the Tribune Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovakia.[5] She also visited various institutions in Oxford, Cambridge, France, Czechoslovakia, Bratislava and Toronto.[5] As Professor of Botany, she attended the British Library meeting in Liverpool, United Kingdom, in 1980 under a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship at the age of 81.

She visited Czechoslovakia from 1984-85 under the Indo-Czech Cultural Exchange Programme. In August 1998, she visited Canada to attend the Association of Commonwealth Universities' General Conference of Executive Heads. She presented a paper titled "University Leadership and Management of Change" at the Suwon Campus of Kyung Hee University in 1999. In her 36 years of work, she has contributed over 350 papers to national and international journals, guided 25 Ph.D.s and two M. Phils.[7] and published ten books.

Offices held

  • President, Phycological Society of India.[8]
  • Associate Editor of Seaweed Research and Utilization, an international Journal.[9][10]
  • Chairperson, National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore.[11][12]
  • National Advisory Committee, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies, Hyderabad.[13]
  • Associate editor, Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health, USA.[14]
  • Appointed as member of search Committee to suggest a panel of names for appointment to the post of Vice-Chancellor, Dr. YSR Horticultural University, West Godavari District by Government of Andhra Pradesh.[15]

Awards and honours

She was honoured with Best Women Scientist award in 2000 at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana and was awarded Gold Medal by Plant Science Association, Uttar Pradesh and felicitated in a "National Seminar on Current Trends in Biotechnology," organized by the Department of Biotechnology, Lal Bahadur College, Warangal on 30 November and 1 December 2007.[16] She was also Guest of honour in various National and International Seminars.[17] [18][19][20] [21][22][23]

In 2007, she was given Lifetime Achievement Award in Chennai. In 2015, the district administration of Warangal and Kadiyam Srihari felicitated her on the occasion of Telangana Formation Day celebrations.[24] She was patron for National Conference on Biodiversity, Biology and Biotechnology of Algae (NCBBBA-2017), 9 - 10, January, 2017 Organized by Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.[25]

The Government of Telangana through K. Kavitha, Member of Parliament, Nizamabad and Padma Devender Reddy, First Deputy Speaker in Telangana Legislative Assembly felicitated her reward on occasion of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2017.[26][27]

References

  1. ^ "International Women's Day on March 8—TS Govt to Honour Eminent Women". The Siasat Daily – Archive. 6 March 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  2. ^ "Golden Jubilee Celebrations Organized by Dept. of Botany, KU" (PDF). Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Former Vice-chancellors, Kakatiya University". Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Cell division in Staurastrum gracile Ralfs. under the scanning electron microscope". Proceedings / Indian Academy of Sciences. 91 (5): 443–447. October 1982. doi:10.1007/BF03053202. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  5. ^ a b c Reddy, S. M.; Rao, Digamber (2001). Perspectives in Biotechnology: Proceedings of National Symposium on "Perspectives in Biotechnology", 1999. Jodhpur: Scientific Publishers (India). ISBN 978-81-7233-255-6. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  6. ^ Dodge, John D (October 1984). "Mucilage interference in desmids under Sem". Proceedings / Indian Academy of Sciences. 93 (5): 561–565. doi:10.1007/BF03053218. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  7. ^ "Ph.D Awardees | Botany". kakatiya.ac.in. Kakatiya University. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  8. ^ "PHYKOS | About". phykosindia.com. Phycological Society, India. Archived from the original on 10 March 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  9. ^ "Editorial Board. Seaweed Research and Utilization Association". Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  10. ^ "Seaweed Research and Utilization Association". Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  11. ^ "NAAC Report, The T K M College of Arts & Science, Kollam". Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  12. ^ "NAAC Report, IDSG Government College, Chikmagalur, Karnataka". Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  13. ^ "National Advisory Committee, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  14. ^ "About Vidyavati (ed.). Perspectives in Biotechnology". Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  15. ^ "G.O.RT.No. 215 Agriculture & Cooperation (Horti) Department. Government of Andhra Pradesh. Dated: 03-04-2018". Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  16. ^ "National Symposium on "Algal Bio-diversity and its role in bio-remediation". Vivekananda Institute of Algal Technology. 2006". Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  17. ^ "National seminar on "Recent Advances in Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Technology", 2009". Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  18. ^ "International seminar on 'Biotechnology and global scenario', 2010". The Hindu. 2 November 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  19. ^ "National seminar on "Plant Sciences and Human Welfare", 2010". The Hindu. 7 March 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  20. ^ "National seminar on empowerment of women, 2012". The Hindu. 22 February 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  21. ^ "National Symposium on "Algae for Human Welfare", (AFHW-2015)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  22. ^ "Vidyavati among other officials felicitated on Telangana formation Day ( 2nd June, 2015)". Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  23. ^ "National Conference on Biodiversity, Biology and Biotechnology of Algae ( 9th and 10th January, 2017)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  24. ^ "Felicitation by the Government of Telangana ( 8th March, 2017)". The Hindu. 8 March 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  25. ^ "Felicitation by the Government of Telangana ( 8th March, 2017)". Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.

See also

List of people with surname Goud

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