Mr. Vinayak Bhat, final year BS-MS student in School of Chemistry, IISER TVM has been awarded the best poster prize in the 8th East Asian Symposium on Functional Dyes and Advanced Materials held at CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India on 20-22 September 2017. The prize sponsored by ACS Omega consists of a certificate and a cash award.