KU awards its Brilliant Scientists, Teachers

The University of Kashmir on Saturday awarded its super scientists and instructors for their fantastic achievements and contributions in the areas of instructing and research.

Vice-Chancellor Prof Nilofer Khan introduced the awards in three categories, viz. Outstanding Scientists, Prestigious Awardees and Best Teachers, at a specific felicitation ceremony.

The awardees in the Outstanding Scientists class are the varsity’s instructors who have these days figured in the lookup database of the Stanford University that ranks the pinnacle two percentage of scientists worldwide. These encompass Prof Farooq A Masoodi, Dean Academic Affairs and Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology; Prof Shakil A Romshoo, Vice-Chancellor, Islamic University of Science and Technology, and Professor, Department of Earth Sciences; Prof Ghulam Jeelani, Department of Earth Sciences; Dr Imtiyaz A Khan, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology; Dr Adil Gani, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology; Dr Shabir Ahmad Parrah, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology; Dr Idrees A Wani, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology and Dr Ikhlaq Hussain, Assistant Professor, IOT Zakura Campus.

In the Best Teacher category, the awards have been introduced to Prof Manzoor A Shah, Department of Botany; Prof Bashir A Ganai, Centre of Research for Development (CORD) and Dr Javaid Ahmad Sheikh, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology. Dr Shafqat Altaf, Department of Kashmiri, used to be awarded in the class for ‘Prestigious Awardees’.

Detailed citations checklist the achievements of the awardees in areas of teaching, lookup and securing extramural promises had been study out for every awardee earlier than being introduced with a trophy, quotation and a certificate.

In her presidential address, Prof Nilofer stated the award ceremony is the University’s modest effort to understand the contributions of its school to the varsity’s growth, progression, visibility and rankings. She stated the match targets to encourage different younger school participants to recognise their practicable and acquire such awards in future.

Notably, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has laid sufficient emphasis on the institution’s commendation to the University’s college who acquire state, countrywide or global recognitions.

The Vice-Chancellor additionally described the award ceremony as a nice promoting initiative and advised the woman school individuals to observe for such recognitions in future.

She congratulated all the awardees for bringing laurels to the group and for working tirelessly in their fields of find out about and lookup to excel further.

The excellent instructor awards had been introduced based totally on suggestions of a committee constituted following an open commercial floated via the University inviting functions for the Best Teacher Award. The purposes obtained had been screened and evaluated strictly on the groundwork of the set suggestions and overall performance parameters along with lookup publications, citations; punctuality and regularity; remarks to educating from students, and different recognitions and awards etc.

Earlier, DAA Prof Farooq Masoodi spelt out the large targets of the award-ceremony and the want to proceed with the appropriate exercise each and every year.

Registrar Dr Nisar Mir delivered a formal vote of thanks at the ceremony, which was once attended additionally attended by using Dean Research, Dean Colleges, Deans of quite a number Schools, Controller of Examinations, Director Admissions, Director Finance, Media Advisor, Executive Engineer, different Officers of the Registry, except various senior academicians of the University.

Mr Showket Shafi, Deputy Director DIQA carried out complaints of the event.