Vidyavati

Vidyavati (born 15 September 1939) is a former Vice-Chancellor, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India. She is President of Phycological Society of India and was honored by Telangana State Government as Eminent Women on 8 March 2017, on the occasion of "International Women's Day" celebrations.

Career

In 1968, she was appointed permanent lecturer and posted at P.G. Centre of Osmania University at Warangal, which later on, in the year 1974, become Kakatiya University. She assumed charge as Vice-Chancellor of the University on 6 May 1998 for a period of three years.

Research

She was a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at Royal Holloway, Belford College and University College London, where she received three months of training in biological material processing for electron microscopy with Prof. John D. Dodge. She did post-doctoral research with Dr. J. Sulek at the Tribune Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovakia. and published ten books.

Offices held

President, Phycological Society of India. Associate Editor of Seaweed Research and Utilization, an international Journal. Chairperson, National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore. National Advisory Committee, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies, Hyderabad. Associate editor, Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health, USA. Appointed as member of search Committee to suggest a panel of names for appointment to the post of Vice-Chancellor, Dr. YSR Horticultural University, West Godavari District by Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Awards and honours

She was honoured with Best Women Scientist award in 2000 at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana and was awarded Gold Medal by Plant Science Association, Uttar Pradesh and felicitated in a "National Seminar on Current Trends in Biotechnology," organized by the Department of Biotechnology, Lal Bahadur College, Warangal on 30 November and 1 December 2007. She was also Guest of honour in various National and International Seminars.

In 2007, she was given Lifetime Achievement Award in Chennai. In 2015, the district administration of Warangal and Kadiyam Srihari felicitated her on the occasion of Telangana Formation Day celebrations. She was patron for National Conference on Biodiversity, Biology and Biotechnology of Algae (NCBBBA-2017), 9 - 10, January, 2017 Organized by Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

The Government of Telangana through K. Kavitha, Member of Parliament, Nizamabad and Padma Devender Reddy, First Deputy Speaker in Telangana Legislative Assembly felicitated her reward on occasion of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2017.