Mangaluru: Loyola Centre for Research & Innovation inaugurated at St Aloysius College

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Mangaluru, 16 Jul 2015: ‘Research should be taken as a Passion, not only as knowledge for learning it should be your hobby,’ said Dr Harsh Vardhan Batra, director of Defence Food Research Laboratory, Mysore.

 
Dr Batra was the guest of honor forr the Blessing and the Inauguration of the Loyola Centre for Research and Innovation (LCRI) of St Aloysius College here on Wednesday July 15 afternoon.

 
LCRI was inaugurated by Fr Dr Stanislaus D’Souza SJ, Provincial of Karnataka Jesuits on the occasion.

 

 
Dr Batra appreciated the research infrastructure of the college and quoted, ‘The innovation should be a habit, it doesn’t matter whether you have the facilities or not, its the mind that plays the role.’ He further stressed on embracing values and said the foundation of research should be made strong by putting the values into it. 

 
Fr Dr Francis Serrao SJ was the chief guest of the function in his inaugural speech said. ‘We cannot rest on the glory of our past history, we need to respond to the modern issues. So we have to keep our mind open to the intellectual dimensions of issues.’

 
Fr Dr Stanislaus D’Souza advised the students to develop their thirst for  knowledge and find ways to quench it.

 

In this occasion the college felicitated the prominent persons who contributed to the conceptual and the structural development of this new building.

 
Fr Denzil Lobo SJ, rector of St Aloysius Institutions and Fr Swebert D’Silva SJ. principal of St Aloysius College were present on the dais.

 

 
About LCRI

 
The new Science Building named as Loyola Centre for Research and Innovation (LCRI), has seven floors all equipped with state of art infrastructure for education through research. The building will house research programmes in Food Science and Technology started recently with a grant of Rs 75 lac from MHRD, union government through the Karnataka state government as well as Research Laboratories of Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Physics departments. There are also multiple conference rooms and auditoriums to conduct seminars and other academic programmes.

The newly-built research wing built at a cost of Rs 8 crore, designed to improve the quality of science education though research.