The College has excellent science labs in biology, zoology, biotechnology, botany, chemistry and physics for studies and research. Science students and faculty are expected to take maximum advantage of these facilities. Science labs at Mrs. Helena Kaushik Women’s College are named after an American scientist, industrialist and philanthropist John Van Nostrand Dorr (January 6, 1872 - June 29, 1962). At seventeen he went to work for Thomas A. Edition, becoming one of “Edison Pioneers Egetting by with only four or five hours sleep. He went to Rutgers University graduating in 1894. In the following years he worked in the Black Hills and in Colorado until his inventions started him on his wider career taking him all over the world, with New York as his center. John Dorr credited upon early applying chemical engineering principles to extractive metallurgy and with hastening the transition from intermittent to continuous operation, thus facilitating mass production in many industries. He added the words “thickener E and “classifier Eto the engineers Evocabulary. Chemical Engineering Magazine in 1949 said editorially, “The contributions which his inventions ...have made to mankind are probably greater than those of any other chemical or metallurgical engineer of our time. E The John Dorr Labs in Biology-Zoology, Biotechnology, Botany, Chemistry and Physics provide the latest equipment for experiments and research by our students and faculty thanks to the generosity of The John Dorr Foundation, USA in support of science education. The College expects our students and faculty to take full advantage of the labs to gain the most knowledge in these subjects while at the college.
The college also provides full laboratory facilities in other subjects that have practical components in the syllabus, such as Geography, Home science, Music and Psychology among a large number of optional subjects offered at the college. Other labs will be created as the offerings of subjects and needs of our students and faculty grow. Students are encouraged to use these facilities and seek regular guidance and supervision from their professors.
The College has an excellent and well-equipped library. It was named after and inaugurated by the Honorable Former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister.
The L.K. Advani Library contains wide range of books in all subjects in arts and sciences, commerce and management, periodicals and journals to fulfill the academic needs and curricular interest of the students and the faculty.
There is a large collection of more than 30,000 books donated by many individuals, families, bookstores, libraries, professors, students and staff in the United States. Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts has done book drives in 2003 and 2004 sending nearly 3,000 from its collection and over 500 from Bentley College, also in Massachusetts. A special section of the library is dedicated to the memory of Leo Soricelli, Jr. whose personal collection on literature was donated by his parents in Peekskill, New York and his cousin Joseph Morreale. Several professors at Pace University in New York, and many other New Yorkers have donated from their personal collections.
The Honorable L.K. Advani Ji also donated over 100 books from his personal collection to our library following his visit to the college to address a Special Convocation in his honor and all our graduates from 2002 to 2006 on November 17, 2007.
There is a video section in the library where students are shown documentary of academic value. There is also a photo stat facility in the library. Students and staff are able to get important extract copied from books without any trouble at some fixed charges.
The process of converting the library into a fully electronic library is under way to access books and other reference documents. The library has high speed access to the Internet.
Faculty and students are expected to make full use of the computer lab to learn computers and to do their homework and research. The Computer Lab is fully connected with LAN and Internet facilities in all the computers to facilitate the research and latest information of the globe. All computers in the lab are connected to the Internet. Computer use is taught to all students, faculty and staff by a qualified computer technician and instructor.
For more information about the campus and the campus directory, please refer to the Prospectus 2010-2011 PDF.
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Mrs. Helena Kaushik Women's College, P.O. Malsisar, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India 331028