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Excellent research is being carried out in various departments of different faculties at both the campuses. The DSB campus had been known for excellent research since beginning as Government College. After its taking over by the university in the year 1973, the quality of research in this campus was enormously upgraded. At present, excellent research is being carried out in the following thrust areas-:
(i) Department of Geology

(a) Geodynamics of the Kumaun Himalaya
(b) Sedimentological Studies
(c) Environmental Investigations and Remote Sensing
(d) Neotectonic and Seismotectonic investigations
(e) Magnetostratigraphy and Palaeoclimatic studies on Neogene-Quaternary deposits

(ii) Department of Botany

Ecology, Mycology, Systematics and biodiversity of flowering plants and ferns.

(iii) Department of Chemistry
(a) Inorganic Chemistry
(i)   Advanced studies on metallo-organic/organometallic derivatives
(ii)  Coordination polymers to develop heat resistant materials
(iii) Investigations on metal-ligand equilibrium having bearing in the area of bio-inorganic chemistry
(iv) Isolation and characterization of metal complexes
(b) Organic Chemistry

(i)   Photochemical studies on high altitude herbs
(ii)  Chemical studies on essential oil bearing plants of Himalayan region
(iii) Chemical Investigation of Himalayan bryophytes
(iv) Chemical Evolution- Studies on the synthesis of amino acids, peptides and nucleic acid constituents, ribose and deoxy-ribose sugars from primordial gases and simple organic compounds

(c) Physical Chemistry
Reaction Kinetics, Kinetics of redox processes with a view to :-
(i) Explore the probability of new/alternative oxidants,
(ii) Examine the role of suitable catalysts at different ph-levels in industrial processes and to explore the possibility of  redox reactions at lower temperatures.

(iv) Department of Physics

(a) High Energy Physics (Theoretical)
(b) Laser Spectroscopy
(c) Relativistic Astrophysics
(d) Microscopic theory of Superconductivity at high temperature
(e) High Dimensional Space-Time

 

Excellent teaching and good quality research is being carried out by the following departments:-

(i) Department of History and Archaeology

(a) Himalayan History and Culture
(b) Disaster Management
(c) State, society and internal resources in Himalaya
(d) History of Forest Management
(e) Role of women in freedom struggle
(f) Central Himalayan ecology

(ii) Department of Economics

(i) Economic Thought
(ii) Economic growth
(iii) International economics

(iii) Department of Geography

(i) Physical geography group
(ii) Human geography group
(iii) General geography, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Development and Planning, Environmental Geomorphology and hydrology, Sustainable Rural Ecosystem Development, Land Use and Land Capability Mapping, Environmental Hazard Mapping, Waste Land Development, Micro-Level Planning, Agro-Ecosystem Management, Quality of Life, Remote sensing and GIS applications

 

(A) Department of Geology

(a) National-:
JNC ASR Bangalore, Department of Geophysics, University of Roorkee, Wadia Institure of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, Department of Geology, Nagaland University, HCL, Malanjkhand, Department of Geology, Lucknow University, Lucknow; BSIP, Lucknow, Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi, Department of Geology, BHU, Varanasi, ML Sukhadia University, Udaipur; NGRI, Hyderabad, M.S. University Baroda, PRL, Ahmadabad.

(b) International-:
(i)    Slovak Academy of Sciences, Braistava
(ii)   Geological Survey of Finland, Finland
(iii)  Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Kyushu University, Fakuoka, Japan
(iv)  SAMRI, James Cook University, Australia
(v)   Palaontologosches Institut, Bonn, 53155, Germany
(vi)  Universidad Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
(vii)  Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
(viii) Geologisch- Palaeontologisch Inst., Tubingen, Germany
(ix)   Deptt. of Geology, Shinshu University, Japan
(x)   Shimane University, Japan.

(B) Department of Botany

(a) National-:
(i) Ministry of Environment and USHID
(ii) Department of Botany and Ecology, BHU, Varanasi

(b) International-:
(i) International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).

(C) Department of Chemistry

(a) National-:
(i) Department of Medicinal Chemistry, BHU, Varanasi
(ii) Department of Chemistry, Allahabad University, Allahabad
(iii) NBRI, Lucknow
(iv) Department of Chemistry, Delhi University, Delhi

(b) International-:
(i) Department of Chemistry, California State Polytechnic
(ii) Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Erlangen, Germany
(iii) Department of Chemistry, University of California, USA
(iv) Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, USA
(v) Department of Chemistry, Virginia State Institute, USA.

(D) Department of Forestry

(i) Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun
(ii) F.R.I., Dehradun
(iii) Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan
(iv) Institute of Forestry, Pokhara, Nepal.

 (E) Department of Physics

(a) National-Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, IIT Delhi, NPL Delhi, MRI Allahabad, TIFR Mumbai, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar, HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar; Punjabi University, Patiyala, IUUCA, Pune; IIT, Kanpur; IIT, Bombay; Mat.Science, Madras, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.
(b) International-Institute of Phy. Guttenberg University, Mainsz (Germany), Institute of Phy. Hydelberg University, Germany; Institute of Phy. Munester Univ. Germany, DESY., Humberg, Germany.