Staff Reporter, Mymensingh :
Eminent agricultural scientist, a retired senior professor of the Bangladesh Agricultural University and former Vice-Chancellor of Hajee Danesh University of Science and Technology Prof Md Afzal Hossain got the ‘UGC Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Fellowship-2021″.
A committee headed by University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Prof Dr Kazi Shahidullah nominated the researcher Prof Afzal for the fellowship. The commission launched the ‘UGC Bangabandhu Fellowship-2021’ on the occasion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary.
Prof Dr M. Afzal Hossain graduated from the Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Bangladesh Agricultural University in 1974 with a first class degree and a postgraduate degree in biochemistry in 1986. He is currently serving as an advisor to Pundra University of Science and Technology and TMSS, a top private University in Bogra.
He received his PhD from the National Dairy Research Institute, Haryana, India in 1974 and completed his post-doctoral research in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Hawaii in the United States in 1986 under the US-Aid Fellowship.
As an agricultural scientist, he has led a significant number of domestic and foreign-funded research projects, as well as participated in more than fifty seminars and policy forums at the national and international levels, contributing significantly to the spread of food and nutrition biochemistry. He has published a significant number of articles, reports and books in the spirit of the great war of liberation and in the belief of upholding the ideals of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the best Bengali nation for thousands of years.
In his reaction, Prof Dr. Md. Afzal Hossain said the introduction of the fellowship on the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation is a landmark initiative of the UGC. He thanked UGC for awarding this honorary fellowship-2021.
