Mrs. Aparna Kulkarni, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Gogate Jogalekar College has recently been awarded the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry. The declaration that her thesis entitled ‘Studies in Greener Organic Transformation Using Heterogeneous Catalysts’ was accepted for Ph.D. degree, was made on 3rd of July 2017. She worked under the guidance of Dr. U.V. Desai of Chemistry department of Shivaji University.