{{Short description|Female botanist from India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}} {{cleanup|reason=reads like a resume fails WP:NOTCV|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox academic | name = Vidyavati | image = Prof. Vidyavati receiving Eminent Women award from Telangana Government.jpg | caption = Vidyavati (center) receiving Eminent Women award from Telangana Government | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|09|15|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | occupation = | title = Vice-Chancellor (retired) | boards = {{UBL |Phycological Society of India, President |Seaweed Research and Utilization |National Assessment and Accreditation Council |Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies |''Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health'' }} | awards = {{UBL |Best Women Scientist (2000) |Gold Medal by Plant Science Association (2007) |Lifetime Achievement Award in Chennai (2007) |International Women’s Day recognition (2017) }} | alma_mater = <!--will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution--> | thesis_title = Experimental and Cytological Studies on Certain Desmids | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1967 | doctoral_advisor = Profs. Jafar Nizam and M.R. Saxena | academic_advisors = | discipline = Botany | sub_discipline = Hydrobiology, phycology, cytology and ultrastructure ecology | workplaces = Kakatiya University | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = }}

'''Vidyavati''' (born 15 September 1939) is a former Vice-Chancellor, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India. She is President of Phycological Society of India and was honored by Telangana State Government as Eminent Women on 8 March 2017, on the occasion of "International Women's Day" celebrations.<ref>{{cite news |title=International Women’s Day on March 8—TS Govt to Honour Eminent Women |url=https://archive.siasat.com/news/international-womens-day-march-8-ts-govt-honour-eminent-women-1145130/ |access-date=12 October 2025 |work=The Siasat Daily – Archive |date=6 March 2017}}</ref>

==Career== {{BLP sources section|date=June 2018}} * In 1968, she was appointed permanent lecturer and posted at P.G. Centre of Osmania University at Warangal, which later on, in the year 1974, become Kakatiya University.<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Jubilee Celebrations Organized by Dept. of Botany, KU |url=http://www.kuwarangal.net/web/notifications/1205_Dept_of_Botany_40Percentage.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304153635/http://www.kuwarangal.net/web/notifications/1205_Dept_of_Botany_40Percentage.pdf |url-status=usurped |archive-date=4 March 2018 |accessdate=5 September 2018}}</ref> * She assumed charge as Vice-Chancellor of the University on 6 May 1998 for a period of three years.<ref>{{cite web|title= Former Vice-chancellors, Kakatiya University. |url=http://kakatiya.ac.in/formervicechancellors |accessdate=24 September 2015}}</ref>

==Research==

She was a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at Royal Holloway, Belford College and University College London, where she received three months of training in biological material processing for electron microscopy with Prof. John D. Dodge.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Cell division in ''Staurastrum gracile'' Ralfs. under the scanning electron microscope |journal=Proceedings / Indian Academy of Sciences |date=October 1982 |volume=91 |issue=5 |pages=443–447 |doi=10.1007/BF03053202 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251306098_Cell_division_in_Staurastrum_gracile_Ralfs_under_the_scanning_electron_microscope |access-date=12 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="Perspectives in Biotechnology.">{{cite book |last1=Reddy |first1=S. M. |last2=Rao |first2=Digamber |editor1-link=Vidyavati |title=Perspectives in Biotechnology: Proceedings of National Symposium on "Perspectives in Biotechnology", 1999 |date=2001 |publisher=Scientific Publishers (India) |location=Jodhpur |isbn=978-81-7233-255-6 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Perspectives_in_Biotechnology/QFiuAAAACAAJ?hl=en |access-date=12 October 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dodge |first1=John D |title=Mucilage interference in desmids under Sem |journal=Proceedings / Indian Academy of Sciences |date=October 1984 |volume=93 |issue=5 |pages=561–565 |doi=10.1007/BF03053218 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251311073_Mucilage_interference_in_desmids_under_Sem |access-date=12 October 2025}}</ref> She did post-doctoral research with Dr. J. Sulek at the Tribune Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovakia.<ref name="Perspectives in Biotechnology."/> She also visited various institutions in Oxford, Cambridge, France, Czechoslovakia, Bratislava and Toronto.<ref name="Perspectives in Biotechnology."/> As Professor of Botany, she attended the British Library meeting in Liverpool, United Kingdom, in 1980 under a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship at the age of 81.

She visited Czechoslovakia from 1984-85 under the Indo-Czech Cultural Exchange Programme. In August 1998, she visited Canada to attend the Association of Commonwealth Universities' General Conference of Executive Heads. She presented a paper titled "University Leadership and Management of Change" at the Suwon Campus of Kyung Hee University in 1999. In her 36 years of work, she has contributed over 350 papers to national and international journals, guided 25 Ph.D.s and two M. Phils.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ph.D Awardees {{!}} Botany |url=https://kakatiya.ac.in/awardess_list/31/dept |website=kakatiya.ac.in |publisher=Kakatiya University |access-date=12 October 2025}}</ref> and published ten books.

==Offices held==

* President, Phycological Society of India.<ref>{{cite web |title=PHYKOS {{!}} About |url=http://phykosindia.com/about.html |website=phykosindia.com |publisher=Phycological Society, India |access-date=12 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310082635/http://phykosindia.com/about.html |archive-date=10 March 2013 |language=en |url-status=dead}}</ref> * Associate Editor of Seaweed Research and Utilization, an international Journal.<ref name="Editorial Board. Seaweed Research and Utilization Association" >{{cite web|title=Editorial Board. Seaweed Research and Utilization Association.|url=http://www.oocities.org/sruajournal/edit.htm|accessdate=25 August 2015}}</ref><ref name="Editorial Board. Seaweed Research and Utilization Association 2">{{cite web|title=Seaweed Research and Utilization Association|url=http://www.seaweedindia.net/members.html|accessdate=25 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929125616/http://www.seaweedindia.net/members.html|archive-date=29 September 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> * Chairperson, National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore.<ref name="NAAC Report, The T K M College of Arts & Science, Kollam.">{{cite web |title=NAAC Report, The T K M College of Arts & Science, Kollam |url=http://www.tkmcas.ac.in/html/institution.html |accessdate=28 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929120439/http://www.tkmcas.ac.in/html/institution.html |archive-date=29 September 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name= "NAAC Report, IDSG Government College, Chikmagalur, Karnataka." >{{cite web|title=NAAC Report, IDSG Government College, Chikmagalur, Karnataka|url=http://www.punjabcolleges.com/12833-indiacolleges-IDSG-Government-College-Chikmagalur/|accessdate=28 August 2015|archive-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418123223/http://www.punjabcolleges.com/12833-indiacolleges-IDSG-Government-College-Chikmagalur/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * National Advisory Committee, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies, Hyderabad.<ref name= "National Advisory Committee, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies." >{{cite web |title=National Advisory Committee, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies |url=http://mgnirsa.ac.in/centres_sarojini.htm |accessdate=27 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095350/http://mgnirsa.ac.in/centres_sarojini.htm |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Associate editor, ''Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health'', USA.<ref name="About Vidyavati (ed.). Perspectives in Biotechnology">{{cite web |title= About Vidyavati (ed.). Perspectives in Biotechnology |url= https://www.charoka.com/Perspectives-in-Biotechnology/b/4007 |accessdate= 27 August 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150928060707/https://www.charoka.com/Perspectives-in-Biotechnology/b/4007 |archive-date= 28 September 2015 |url-status= dead |df= dmy-all }}</ref> * Appointed as member of search Committee to suggest a panel of names for appointment to the post of Vice-Chancellor, Dr. YSR Horticultural University, West Godavari District by Government of Andhra Pradesh.<ref name= "G.O.RT.No. 215 Agriculture & Cooperation (Horti) Department. Government of Andhra Pradesh. Dated: 03-04-2018." >{{cite web|title= G.O.RT.No. 215 Agriculture & Cooperation (Horti) Department. Government of Andhra Pradesh. Dated: 03-04-2018. |url= http://goir.ap.gov.in|accessdate=10 April 2018}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==

thumb|Vidyavati felicitated on Telangana formation Day

She was honoured with Best Women Scientist award in 2000 at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana and was awarded Gold Medal by Plant Science Association, Uttar Pradesh and felicitated in a "National Seminar on Current Trends in Biotechnology," organized by the Department of Biotechnology, Lal Bahadur College, Warangal on 30 November and 1 December 2007.<ref name="National Seminar on Current Trends in Biotechnology">{{cite web|title="National Seminar on Current Trends in Biotechnology" organized by the Department of Biotechnology, Lal Bahadur College, Warangal.2007.|url=http://smart.whad.org/iqac-report-for-the-year-2007-2008-part--a--plan-of-action-index-4|accessdate=25 August 2015|archive-date=29 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929082039/http://smart.whad.org/iqac-report-for-the-year-2007-2008-part--a--plan-of-action-index-4|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was also Guest of honour in various National and International Seminars.<ref name="Algal Bio-diversity and its role in bio-remediation">{{cite web|title=National Symposium on "Algal Bio-diversity and its role in bio-remediation". Vivekananda Institute of Algal Technology. 2006.|url=http://www.oocities.org/viat06/programmes.htm|accessdate=25 August 2015}}</ref> <ref name= "National seminar on “Recent Advances in Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Technology” 2009.">{{cite web|title=National seminar on "Recent Advances in Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Technology", 2009.|url=http://andhra-colleges.com/Education-News/20091/20090121a.asp|accessdate=28 August 2015|archive-date=29 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929053305/http://andhra-colleges.com/Education-News/20091/20090121a.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Biotechnology and global scenario">{{cite news|title= International seminar on 'Biotechnology and global scenario', 2010.|website=The Hindu |date=2 November 2010 |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/bt-brought-drastic-changes-in-production/article866436.ece|accessdate=28 August 2015}}</ref><ref name= "National seminar on “Modern Trends in Plant Sciences”, 2010.">{{cite news|title= National seminar on "Modern Trends in Plant", 2010|website= The Hindu|date= 27 March 2010|url= http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/need-for-more-research-on-plant-sciences-stressed/article306776.ece|accessdate=28 August 2015}}</ref> <ref name= "National seminar on “Plant Sciences and Human Welfare”, 2010.">{{cite news|title= National seminar on "Plant Sciences and Human Welfare", 2010|website=The Hindu |date=7 March 2010 |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-educationplus/twoday-seminar-at-ku/article897535.ece|accessdate=28 August 2015}}</ref><ref name= "National seminar on empowerment of women, 2012.">{{cite news|title= National seminar on empowerment of women, 2012|newspaper= The Hindu|date= 22 February 2012|url= http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/seminar-on-women-empowerment/article2921838.ece|accessdate=25 September 2015}}</ref><ref name= "National Symposium on “Algae for Human Welfare”, (AFHW-2015).">{{cite web|title=National Symposium on "Algae for Human Welfare", (AFHW-2015).|url=http://www.apcce.gov.in/Documentation/Seminars/PRGC(A),%20Kakinada%20-%20Symposium.pdf|accessdate=25 September 2015|archive-date=29 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929181219/http://www.apcce.gov.in/Documentation/Seminars/PRGC(A),%20Kakinada%20-%20Symposium.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2007, she was given Lifetime Achievement Award in Chennai. In 2015, the district administration of Warangal and Kadiyam Srihari felicitated her on the occasion of Telangana Formation Day celebrations.<ref>{{cite web|title= Vidyavati among other officials felicitated on Telangana formation Day ( 2nd June, 2015).|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AVidyavati_felicitated_on_Telangana_formation_Day.jpeg|accessdate=27 September 2015}}</ref> She was patron for National Conference on Biodiversity, Biology and Biotechnology of Algae (NCBBBA-2017), 9 - 10, January, 2017 Organized by Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.<ref name= "National Conference on Biodiversity, Biology and Biotechnology of Algae ( 9th and 10th January, 2017)" >{{cite web|title=National Conference on Biodiversity, Biology and Biotechnology of Algae ( 9th and 10th January, 2017).|url=http://www.unom.ac.in/uploads/seminar_conference/NCBBBA-2017-BROCHURE_20161023075403_94960.pdf|accessdate=5 March 2017|archive-date=7 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307044820/http://www.unom.ac.in/uploads/seminar_conference/NCBBBA-2017-BROCHURE_20161023075403_94960.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Government of Telangana through K. Kavitha, Member of Parliament, Nizamabad and Padma Devender Reddy, First Deputy Speaker in Telangana Legislative Assembly felicitated her reward on occasion of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2017.<ref name= "Felicitation by the Government of Telangana ( 8th March, 2017)" >{{cite news|title= Felicitation by the Government of Telangana ( 8th March, 2017).|newspaper=The Hindu |date=8 March 2017 |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/celebrating-women-and-their-contribution-to-society/article17430855.ece|accessdate=17 March 2017}}</ref><ref name= "Felicitation by the Government of Telangana ( 8th March, 2017) 2" >{{cite web|title=Felicitation by the Government of Telangana ( 8th March, 2017).|url=http://epaper.telanganatoday.news/pagezoomsinwindows.php?img=http://epaper.telanganatoday.news/epaperimages/09032017/09032017-md-hr-01.jpg&id=6235&boxid=790525544&cid=4&mod=1&pagenum=1&edcode=71|accessdate=17 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317234404/http://epaper.telanganatoday.news/pagezoomsinwindows.php?img=http%3A%2F%2Fepaper.telanganatoday.news%2Fepaperimages%2F09032017%2F09032017-md-hr-01.jpg&id=6235&boxid=790525544&cid=4&mod=1&pagenum=1&edcode=71|archive-date=17 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *https://web.archive.org/web/20140515212127/http://www.kakatiya.ac.in/ *http://phykosindia.com

==See also== List of people with surname Goud

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