Prabha Unnithan received the Government of India’s Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) Award and was invited to return to his alma mater H. S. Gour Central University to give a series of live lectures as well as record in-studio for later broadcast on the university’s education channel. “This region of India is trying to increase educational offerings by having resources like this available to the general public,” says Unnithan.

The Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India partnered with the university’s Department of Criminology and Forensic Science to offer this one-week course held in December of 2017. GIAN is a new program aimed at tapping the international talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs to share their experience and expertise to motivate people to work on Indian problems.