Events

Departments of Mathematics, Management Sciences, and Economics participated in “The 7th China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition”- the world's largest innovation and entrepreneurship competition for college students. The competition aims at providing an education exchange platform for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As per the requirements of the event, three UW teams comprising three students each submitted their projects. As a token of contribution, students from University of Wah have received participation souvenirs from China University of Geosciences, Beijing.

Prof. Dr. Nazir Hussain, Dean Social Sciences and Humanities participated in the Roundtable Conference on “Securing Balochistan Amid Hybrid Warfare Through Development" organized by the International Institute of Conflict Resolution in Islamabad on July 21, 2022. Prof. Dr. Nazir underlined the importance of structural reforms in Balochistan for the improvement of law and order situation there.

Department of Statistics, University of Wah organized a research seminar titled "How to prepare a research paper for journals? Pressure, Barrier and Solution” on 20 July, 2022. Prof. Dr. Javid Shabbir, Chairperson, Department of Statistics was the Guest Speaker. He spoke on the ways of writing well-structured research paper for publication and how the quality of research papers can be improved. Different pressures and barriers and their solutions regarding the publication of research were also highlighted. In addition, discussion pertaining to the basic definitions of Impact -Factor, Scopus, JCR, HJRS, Publons, Google scholar, Research Gate and ORCID etc. was also held. More than 30 participants including students and faculty members attended the Seminar, which ended with an interactive QA session.

Department of English, on the invitation of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, took part in “Online Global Classroom-2022” on 19-20 July, 2022. The event was a joint venture of three prominent Asian universities including Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea and University of Wah, Pakistan. Dr. Rasib Mahmood, Chairperson, Department of English, was the Guest Speaker on Day-2. He delivered a speech titled “Reflections and Revolutions of Pandemic: A Flux in Language and Communication Trends in 21 st Century”. Chairpersons of all the three universities, along with their faculty members and students, attended the event. The event ended with a note of appreciation and with a hope that such kind of research activities will be continued in future for promotion of research.

On the eve of start of new semester, Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi, Vice Chancellor, UW was the invited guest speaker at the Physics Department, University of Karachi. Faculty members, undergraduate and post graduate students attended the lecture on 18th July, 2022.The 90 minutes session was divided into two parts: understanding of basic physics principle (for the BS students) and physics of supernova explosions (for MS and PhD students).

Later the VC also met Prof. Dr.Nasira Khatoon, Vice Chancellor, Karachi University and Prof. Dr. Sarosh Hashmat Lodi, Vice Chancellor, NED University of Engineering and Technology. During his meetings with both the VCs, Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi, VC-UW, conversed on matters of mutual academic interests and emphasized on boosting research ties between the institutions. The visits ended with notes of thanks and exchange of souvenirs.

Prof. Dr. Nazir Hussain, Dean UW Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, attended International Social Science Conference, 2022 organized by University of Lahore on 15-16 July, 2022.

1. Implications of Emerging Technologies on National and International Security

2. National, Regional and Global Security Challenges

3. Symbolic Boundaries: Human Migration and Belonging He also spoke in the concluding session of the Conference and highlighted the contribution of private sector universities in promotion of Social Sciences in Pakistan.