Mr. Prakash Kamath K., Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics at St. Aloysius College has been awarded Doctoral degree in Physics by the Mangalore University for his thesis entitled “SYNTHESIS, CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND THIRD HARMONIC NLO STUDIES OF SOME ORGANIC CRYSTALS”. He worked for his PhD degree under the guidance of Prof. K. M. Balakrishna, Dept. of Physics of Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri.