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IIT Kanpur Professor Sankar Prasad Rath Awarded National Teachers Award

IIT Kanpur Professor Sankar Prasad Rath Awarded National Teachers Award

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THE BRIEF
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Professor Sankar Prasad Rath from IIT Kanpur's Department of Chemistry has been awarded the National Teachers Award.

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Rath completed his PhD at IACS Kolkata and a postdoc at UC Davis before joining IIT Kanpur in December 2004.

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He focuses on using real chemical problems and everyday observations to encourage independent student thinking over memorisation.