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AMU's Prof. Vibha Sharma Selected for the Prestigious National Award to HEI Teachers 2025

Prof. Vibha Sharma, a senior faculty member in the Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), has been selected for the prestigious National Award to Teachers for Higher Educational Institutions and Polytechnics ’2025, instituted by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. She will receive the award from the Hon’ble President of India at a ceremony scheduled to be held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on September 5, 2025. Prof. Sharma is one of 21 awardees selected from across the country, and perhaps the first from the university to receive this honour.

Sorce: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2160872

AMU Prof. Syed Ziaur Rahman gets Dr. SB Pandey Oration Award

AMU Prof. Syed Ziaur Rahman gets Dr. SB Pandey Oration Award

Prof. Syed Ziaur Rahman, Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at JNMC as on 27-12-2024, was honored with the Dr. SB Pandey Oration Award. During the 54th Annual Meeting of the Indian Pharmacological Society (IPSCON-2024) at AIIMS, New Delhi, he delivered the oration on his research titled "Exploring Medicinal Plants for Morphine De-addiction." This prestigious award is named after the renowned Indian pharmacologist Prof. S. B. Pandey from Patna, Bihar.

Source: https://ipscon2024.com/award.html

https://www.indianpharmacologicalsociety.org/orations-award.php

AMU Prof. M J Warsi gets Colin P. Massica Award

Prof. M J Warsi, Chairman, Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University has been honoured with the prestigious “Colin. P. Massica Award-2024” during 51^st All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists (AICDL) held at the Tamil University, Thanjavur, during June 27-29, 2024. The conference was jointly organized by Dravidian Linguistics Association of India, International School of Dravidian Linguistics (ISDL), Thiruvananthapuram, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru and Tamil University, Thanjavur.

The award has been instituted in the name of great American linguist, Prof. Colin. P. Massica, who is known for his seminal work, “Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia and The Indo-Aryan Languages”.

Noted biotechnologist and scholar, Prof Asad Ullah Khan (Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University) has been decorated with another prestigious award, Sri Om Prakash Bhasin Award-2019 for his trail-blazing research in Biotechnology. The award, held in high esteem across the country and is given to eminent scientists in the field of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology, Electronics, Engineering and Medical Sciences, carries a cash prize of Rupees one lakh with a citation and plaque.

The award has been conferred upon noted Indian scientists including APJ Abdul Kalam, MS Swaminathan, KG Menon and Prof Asad is the first recipient as AMU faculty member. Prof Obaid Siddiqui, an alumnus of AMU, received this honour in 1993.

The Vice-Chancellor Prof Tariq Mansoor has congratulated Prof Khan on this awe-inspiring academic honour and said 'it is given on his seminal contribution to study of Antimicrobial resistance and infection biology of bacteria'.

The award will be given during the first week of November 2020