Facilities

John Dorr Science Lab

The College has excellent science labs in biology, zoology, biotechnology, botany, chemistry and physics for studies and research. Science students and faculty are expected to take maximum advantage of these facilities. Science labs at Mrs. Helena Kaushik Women’s College are named after an American scientist, industrialist and philanthropist John Van Nostrand Dorr (January 6, 1872 – June 29, 1962). At seventeen he went to work for Thomas A. Edition, becoming one of “Edison Pioneers Egetting by with only four or five hours sleep. He went to Rutgers University graduating in 1894. In the following years he worked in the Black Hills and in Colorado until his inventions started him on his wider career taking him all over the world, with New York as his center. John Dorr credited upon early applying chemical engineering principles to extractive metallurgy and with hastening the transition from intermittent to continuous operation, thus facilitating mass production in many industries. He added the words “thickener E and “classifier Eto the engineers Evocabulary. Chemical Engineering Magazine in 1949 said editorially, “The contributions which his inventions …have made to mankind are probably greater than those of any other chemical or metallurgical engineer of our time. The John Dorr Labs in Biology-Zoology, Biotechnology, Botany, Chemistry and Physics provide the latest equipment for experiments and research by our students and faculty thanks to the generosity of The John Dorr Foundation, USA in support of science education. The College expects our students and faculty to take full advantage of the labs to gain the most knowledge in these subjects while at the college.

Other Labs

The college also provides full laboratory facilities in other subjects that have practical components in the syllabus, such as Geography, Home Science, Music and Psychology among a large number of optional subjects offered at the college. Other labs will be created as the offerings of subjects and needs of our students and faculty grow. Students are encouraged to use these facilities and seek regular guidance and supervision from their professors.

L.K. Advani Library

The College has an excellent and well-equipped library. It was named after and inaugurated by the Honorable Former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister.

The L.K. Advani Library contains wide range of books in all subjects in arts and sciences, commerce and management, periodicals and journals to fulfill the academic needs and curricular interest of the students and the faculty.

There is a large collection of more than 40,000 books donated by many individuals, families, bookstores, libraries, professors, students and staff in the United States. Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts has done book drives in 2003 and 2004 sending nearly 3,000 from its collection and over 500 from Bentley College, also in Massachusetts. A special section of the library is dedicated to the memory of Leo Soricelli, Jr. whose personal collection on literature was donated by his parents in Peekskill, New York and his cousin Joseph Morreale. Several professors at Pace University in New York, and many other New Yorkers have donated from their personal collections.

The Honorable L.K. Advani Ji also donated over 100 books from his personal collection to our library following his visit to the college to address a Special Convocation in his honor and all our graduates from 2002 to 2006 on November 17, 2007.

There is a video section in the library where students are shown documentary of academic value. There is also a photo stat facility in the library. Students and staff are able to get important extract copied from books without any trouble at some fixed charges.

The process of converting the library into a fully electronic library is under way to access books and other reference documents. The library has high speed access to the Internet.

Computer Lab

Faculty and students are expected to make full use of the computer lab to learn computers and to do their homework and research. The Computer Lab is fully connected with LAN and Internet facilities in all the computers to facilitate the research and latest information of the globe. All computers in the lab are connected to the Internet. Computer use is taught to all students, faculty and staff by a qualified computer technician and instructor.

Campus Directory
Vaidya Laxminarain Kaushik Academic Hall

S.No.	Room No.	Use	Name of Room
1	111	Class Room
2	112	Principal Office
3	113	Class Room
4	114	Class Room
5	115 A	Conference Room
6	115 B	Principal Office
7	116	Class Room	Hanuman Prasad & Heera Pujari
8	117	Chairman Office	Shanit & J.N. Sharma
9	119	Administrative Office	Ramesh Bhatia & Bhagwandas Bhatia
10	118 & 120	Nell Dorr Art Gallery	Parmeshwari Prasad Khetan & Rukmani Devi Khetan
11	121	Staff Room	Sudha Gupta
12	122	Exam Control Room	Chandra Prakash Khetan
13	211	Class Room
14	212 & 214	Library	Lal Krishan Advani Library
15	213	Class Room	Nnenna G Ihejirika
16	215	Computer Lab
17	216	Class Room
18	217	Class Room	David Swope
19	218	Class Room	Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation
20	219	Class Room	A. Didar Singh
21	220	Class Room	Thomas Holbik
22	221	Geography Lab	Karel Holbik
23	222	Class Room	Olga Holbik
24	311	Class Room	Rosario Girasa
25	312	Chemistry Lab	Steel Family
26	313	Music Room	Twink and James wood
27	314	Biology Lab	Edward J. Kingsbury
28	315	Physics Lab	Richard & June Ottinger
29	316	Biotech Lab	Margaret Mead Gunn
30	317	Class Room
31	318	Botany Lab	Frank & Eleanor Genovese
32	319	Class Room
33	320	Home Science Lab
34	321	Class Room
35	322	Dark Room

Manna Lal Kaushik Guest House
S.No.	Room No.	Use	Name of Room
1	101	Guest Room	–
2	102	Guest Room	–
3	103	Guest Room	–
4	104	Guest Room	–
5	105	Kitchen	–
6	201	Guest Room	David Swope
7	202	Guest Room	Robert & Gudrun Isaak
8	203	Guest Room	–
9	204	Guest Room	Dr. S. K. Kaushik Ji
10	205	Guest Room	James & Twink Wood
11	206	Dinning Hall	Margaret Mead Gunn
12	301	Guest Room	–
13	302	Guest Room	Barbara and Milton Lipton
14	303	Guest Room	–
15	304	Guest Room	–
16	305	Guest Room	–
17	306	Guest Room	–

Ratni Devi Kaushik Residence Hall
S.No.	Room No.	Use	Name of Room
1	101	Room
2	102	Room
3	103	Room
4	104	Room
5	105	Room
6	106	Room
7	107	Room
8	108	Room
9	109	Room
10	110	Room
11	111	Room
12	112	Room
13	113	Room
14	114	Room
15	115	Room
16	116	Room
17	117	Room	Margaret Mead Gunn
18	118	Room	David Swope
19	119	Room	James & Twink Wood