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Monday, November 4, 2024

AWKUM’s QEC Hosts Workshop on HEC Anti-Plagiarism Policy & Turnitin: Empowering MPhil and PhD Coordinators to Strengthen Academic Integrity

 

The Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC), Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM), organized capacity building workshop on “HEC Anti Plagiarism Policy 2023 & Use of Turnitin Software” on October 31, 2024, in the Conference Hall Garden Campus. MPhil and PhD coordinators from various departments participated in the workshop. 

Director QEC AWKUM formally welcomed and briefed the participants regarding the objectives of the workshop. Dr. Noman Habib, Manager QEC Pak Austria Institute Haripur, delivered a detailed and comprehensive presentation on HEC Anti Plagiarism Policy 2023 at Higher Education Institutions and briefed the audience on Turnitin usage. 

Addressing at the concluding ceremony, the honorable Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Zahir Shah gave a comprehensive address about the implementation of HEC Anti Plagiarism Policy at AWKUM. He emphasized MPhil and PhD coordinators to extend outcomes of the workshop with all faculty members in their respective departments. He further advised QEC to arrange the same workshop for postgraduate students as well.

At the end, certificates were distributed among the participants.












 

Monday, October 14, 2024

Dr. Shahid Ullah of the Department of Biochemistry at AWKUM successfully defended his PhD thesis

 Dr. Shahid Ullah of the Department of Biochemistry at AWKUM successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled "Aberrant Gene Expression Profiling and Causal Variant Identification in Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Patients from the Pathan Ethnic Group of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan" at the auditorium of the Department of Biochemistry, Garden Campus, AWKUM. He conducted his research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Muhammad Arif Lodhi, with Prof. Dr. Asifullah Khan serving as co-supervisor.

Associate Prof. Dr. Muhammad Sheeraz Ahmad (University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi) and Associate Prof. Dr. Naeem Khan (Department of Chemistry, Kohat University of Science and Technology) attended his public defense as examiners. Faculty members of the Biochemistry department, the Director of Academics at AWKUM, and students were also present.

Dr. Shahid Ullah addressed questions from the examiners and participants with scholarly precision. His thesis was evaluated by international experts, including Prof. Dr. Ronald P. Kuiper Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology Netherlands and Prof. Dr. Jörg D. Hoheisel (Head of the Department of Functional Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Germany), as well as Associate Prof. Dr. Naeem Khan (Department of Chemistry, Kohat University of Science and Technology).

During defense, Dr. Shahid Ullah also spent six months at Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK), through the IRSIP program, working as a guest researcher under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alex Tonks. He has published two research articles based on his PhD research in peer-reviewed international journals and an additional six articles in international journals outside of his PhD work.