Dr Surajit Kayal, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS), and Dr Brijesh Kumar Mishra, Associate Professor, Chemistry, SIAS, have recently co-authored a research paper titled Role of hydroxy substitution on the conformation and excited state dynamics of Chalcone, in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP).  Read more

IFMR GSB faculty members, Dr Aishwarya Krishnaswamy, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Finance; Professor Vijayalakshmi C, Professor, OB & HR and Dr R S Sathya Saminadan, Associate Professor of Practice, Marketing represented Krea University as faculty resource persons at the IN-SPACe Entrepreneurship Development Programme, conducted by IIT Bombay in collaboration with IN-SPACe (Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre) and ISRO from 22 - 27 June 2026. Know more

Reet Brar, a Psychology major student and Krea alum, along with Dr Akanksha Adya, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS presented a co-authored paper titled 'Tracing Mothers' Representations in Partition Scholarship' at the 2026 International Association of Maternal Action + Scholarship (IAMAS) conference held from 14-17 June 2026. At the same conference, Dr Akanksha Adya and Dr Rachana Johri, Distinguished Visiting Professor, BMU University presented a co-authored paper titled 'A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Maternal Subjectivity in Old Age'.

Dr Sabah Siddiqui, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS spoke at the international workshop “The Challenge of Gender" on 2-3 July 2026 in Würzburg, Germany. The workshop was sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space: ICAS:MP. 

Dr Raghu Vamsy Maligal Ganesh, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, SIAS, recently co-authored a research paper titled, Industrial-scale nanocrystalline Ni-Mo-MgO catalysts for hybrid reforming of waste to fuels in the journal Science. Know more

Sathyanarayanan R, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSB has authored another article in ET BrandEquity, from The Economic Times. The article, titled Cannes Lions and Buri Nazar in Advertising, explores how everyday cultural beliefs such as the evil eye, kaala teeka, drishti bommai and nazar battu have found their way into advertising storytelling. Read more

Professor Jayaram Ramakrishnan, Professor of Practice, IFMR GSB, has authored an article titled Identifying Customer Profitability: A Strategic Imperative for MSMEs, published in the June 26 edition (Volume 9) of MSME Tidbits, the bi-monthly flagship Journal of MSME & Start up Promotion Board of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI). Know more

Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Global Arts, SIAS was part of Varnajalam in Chennai, on 27 June 2026. Varnajalam showcased eight artistes, each presenting a rare varnam - a price de resistance of the dance repertoire that brings the virtuoso of the artiste, composer, musicians in poetry, footwork and Abhinaya.

Moin Qureshi, Teaching Fellow, Social Sciences, SIAS has co-authored a new paper, published by Global Resilience Publishing (GRP), Cambridge, UK, examining the geopolitical consequences of the recent US-Israel-Iran conflict and its implications for the evolving global order. The paper is titled America Dethroned? The U.S.A. in Decline? The Iran War: Implications for the Global South, for China’s Role in West Asia, and for the Remaking of the Regional Gulf Architecture.  Read more

Dr Koyel Lahiri, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences made a presentation at the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, the annual meeting of the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network  with the thematic focus for 2026 being- Beyond Borders: The Role of the Humanities in Reimagining Communities. The conference, from 1-3 July 2026, is being hosted by the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal. Dr Lahiri's presentation was titled 'On Building Meaningful, Durable and Effective Workers’ Communities: Towards a Non-Materialist Understanding of Political Articulations, Desire and Discontent, and Movement Building'.