Ten meritorious students of Amar Ekushey Hall at Dhaka University (DU) have received the Provost Award, while 34 others have been awarded the Amar Ekushey Hall Trust Fund Scholarship for their academic achievements.

DU Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Dr Abdus Salam distributed the awards and scholarship cheques at a function held at the hall auditorium on Tuesday evening (27 October), according to a DU press release issued on Wednesday.

The 10 students received the Provost Award for their outstanding performance in undergraduate and postgraduate examinations in 2023 and 2024.

The programme was chaired by Amar Ekushey Hall Provost Professor Dr Mohammad Jasim Uddin. Resident Teacher Dr Md Mahfuzur Rahman Khan and representatives of the hall union also addressed the event.

Congratulating the recipients, Abdus Salam said the country had high expectations of talented students and urged them to fulfil those expectations with honesty, dedication, responsibility, patriotism and human values.

He also stressed the importance of strengthening the university’s alumni network to improve the quality of education and research.

The Provost Award recipients are Muhaiminur Hossain and Mohammad Yasin Rahman from Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology; Md Siam from Software Engineering; Omar Faruk from Geology; Ahmed Nesar Tahsin Chowdhury from Computer Science and Engineering; Salim Sadman Sadat from Fisheries; Md Mahfuzur Rahman from Nutrition and Food Science; Md Anisur Rahman from Physics; Fazle Rabbi from Statistics; and Atiq Abrar Rahman from Microbiology.

The 34 Trust Fund Scholarship recipients represent departments across the university, including Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Microbiology, Fisheries, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Software Engineering, Statistics, Geology and several other disciplines.