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July 13: A dynamic restructuring is underway at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), which will appoint ``search committees''...

July 13: A dynamic restructuring is underway at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), which will appoint “search committees” to identify people of excellence at the middle and higher level to prepare them as future leaders in science.

Revealing this, the new director of TIFR, Professor Sudhanshu S Jha said the “changes will not be fixed. We will keep shifting the emphasis within the system as it should be able to assimilate the changes.”

The search committees would scout human excellence, with no lower age bar, from anywhere in the globe, to help TIFR regain its scientific glory, he added.

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Under the restructuring, TIFR would have an additional school for “technology and computer science” — separated from school of physics — to strengthen the linkages of computer, biology and mathematics, Prof Jha said.

A review committee was appointed in February last by the management council as an exercise in introspection, and its report was under printing, he added.

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