TN med univ convocation on Thursday

Chennai:03.03.2020

Thirty-two years since its establishment, Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University will hold its annual convocation for the first time on its own campus in Guindy.

At the 32nd convocation of the state medical university, which will be held on Thursday, degrees will be given to 17,590 candidates, vice-chancellor Dr Sudha Seshayyan said on Monday. The degrees will be handed over by Indian space scientist K Kasturirangan, former head of Isro. He will also deliver the convocation address, while senior Indian physicist R Chidambaram, former principal scientific advisor to the Union government, will speak on “artificial intelligence in medicine”.

Until 2019, convocations were held at the centenary auditorium of the University of Madras. The university will be able to save ₹2 lakh spent on renting the hall besides transportation and other charges, officials said.

The event will be declared open by the university chancellor and Tamil Nadu governor Banwarilal Purohit at 11am in the presence of pro-chancellor and health minister C Vijayabaskar. TNN