An excellent video prepared by our Final Year Students!

Our final year students have found time to prepare an excellent educational content rich video!

Hope you find this useful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kXcCjPGk7w

The video has been uploaded to Youtube, and relates to the animal kingdom. Please like and share the video!

“Mangrove Biodiversity” – webinar held on 4-8-2021

Dr. Rani Varghese delivered an excellent overview of the Mangrove biodiversity. She explained to the students the status, services and ecological importance of this unique ecosystem type. She also shared future prospects and the current research topics/areas in Mangroves.

The talk began at 10.00 on the 4th, Wednesday of August, 2021. More than 67 students participated in the webinar.

Thanks Dr. Rani for a wonderful lecture

Invited lecture on Mangrove Biodiversity

Dr. Rani Varghese, CUSAT, has agreed to deliver a lecture on the 4th of August 2021 about “Incredible mangrove ecosystems: Status, services and biodiversity”.

The talk will be at 10.00 AM and all students are welcome to actively participate in it. Google meet link will be shared as soon as we have it.

Interested people please contact us for the link!

Viral Zoonoses

An invited lecture on “Viral Zoonoses” was delivered by Dr. Jobin Jose Kattoor, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Animal Disease Diagnosis Laboratory, Division of Comparative Pathobiology, Purdue University.

More than 75 students and alumni of the Department participated in the webinar. Dr. Ousephachan KV, Principal Nirmalagiri College and Dr. Jimly C Jacob (HoD, Zoology) were present during the meeting.

Thank you Dr. Jobin for the lively and informative session.

The lecture was organized by Dept. of Zoology and Kerala government Veterinary Officers Association (Kannur Unit) to commemorate the World Zoonoses day (July 6th).

Campus recruitment

Congrats E T Sarath (B.Sc. Zoology 2021 batch), for being selected to the South Indian Bank as Probationary Clerk.

Sarath is one among the 11 students recruited to SIB from Nirmalagiri College. Congrats Sarath and all dear students of NGC! best wishes for your bright career ahead!!

Congrats Deepu Joseph Sir, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Nirmalagiri College, for co-ordinating the campus recruitment drive.

Courses Offered in the Department

Bachelor of Science in Zoology

  • With complementary Chemistry and Botany. Sanctioned strength of the course is 32.

Master of Science in Zoology

  • Sanctioned strength – 12.

Research leading to PhD

Elective course in Apiculture

  • This course is meant for the fifth semester students of the college. Thirty five students can join the course.