Most of the faculty of Zoology Department is highly qualified with Ph. D. degree awarded and are capable to to guide to B. Sc. and M. Sc. students for their Research project. Every year 24 M. Sc. Students. Every academic year there is good research output along with teaching learning process. There were 121 research papers have been published in various national and international reputed journals by our faculty members. Not only the publications but also n-number of research articles were presented at various national and international conferences.

1. Name of the collaborating Partner: Dr. G.D. Khedkar, Professor and Director P.H.C.D.B. Aurangabad.
   Theme: DNA Barcoding of fishes.
   Other details: Lab facilities will be shared between two labs for research for analysis
2. Name of the collaborating Partner: Dr. Devendra Lingojwar, Director, ATG Biotechnologies, Pune.
   Theme: Molecular identification of fishes.
   Other details: Lab facilities will be shared between two labs for research for analysis
3. Name of the collaborating Partner: Dr Ravindra Choudhari Professor and Head, Dept of Zoology, SSCC Junnar, Pune
   Theme: Collaborative research center for Ph.D.
   Other details: Affiliated with center for Ph.D.
4. Name of the collaborating Partner: Dr. Pawan Kumar Khanna, Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), a deemed to be University, Girinagar.
   Theme: Toxicity Evaluation of Nanoparticles using Insect model system.
   Other details: Collaboration is established to share infrastructure and laboratory facilities between the Collaborators

Every academic year we have 22 M. Sc. Student Research Project guided by faculty members of Zoology department with their respective fields.

Although there is no official placement cell in the department but M.Sc. Zoology students of our college often pursue Ph.D. in renowned institutions such as IISc, NCL, SPPU. Many of them are actively involved in research. They are also selected in various Junior and senior colleges as teachers and lecturers respectively.

1. Dr. Mrs. Kudale Sangita Ravindrakumar: Honored as “Best Teacher” on the occasion of “Guruvandana- 2017” jointly organized by Karnataka Rajya MahavidyalayaShikshak Sangh, KarnatakAdhyapak Parishad “A nationalist Teacher movements” and “Karnatak Rajya MadhyamicShikshak Sangh”, Dharwad region and felicitated by Prof. VishnukantChetapalli, Advisor, NAAC, Bengaluru on 16th of August 2017.

2. Dr. Atmaram Vitthal Andhale: “2016 Mind Education Specialist Awarded” to Dr. Atmaram V Andhale hosted by International Mind Education Institute held at Savitribai Phule Pune University on Jan 11th 2016.

3. Dr. Somnath Waghmare: Received the best oral paper award for my research paper entitled *"Insilico sequence analysis homology modelling, Molecular docking and functional annotations of Paroxiredoxin from M incognita"* In the *Capacity Building workshop in Nematode Taxonomy and Satellite Symposium on Advances in Nematology* organized by Nematology research lab CCSU Meerut in association with DRDO, CSIR from 21 March to 30 March 2022.

4. Dr. Kanchan A Phatak : Received best platform award for the paper entitled ‘Novel genetic and biochemical investigations on pigmentation pathway with silver nanoparticles using Drosophila as model system’ in “International Conference on new Frontiers in Environmental and Allied Sciences” organised by Prof. Ramkrishna More ACS College, Akurdi on 15th- 16th February, 2019.

5. Dr. Kanchan A Phatak : Received second prize for Paper presentation in National Conference on chemistry of Chalcogenide compounds organised by Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), during 14th- 15th March, 2019.

6. Dr. Swapnil C Supekar: Young Scientist award: For oral presentation at “International conference on Ecosystem Responses to Global Environmental Changes and Their Impact” held at Indore.

7. Dr. Swapnil C Supekar: Best Event Coordinator award: For coordinating a “Quiz competition under Science Association’s Science Fest-Dexterity to Excel at S.P. Mandali’s Sir Parashurambhau College, Pune (2018-19)