Two new trust funds titled “Prof. Dr. Anwarul Azim Chowdhury Trust Fund” and “Sulaiman Shah BSc- Prof. Dr. Hironmoy Sen Gupta Trust Fund” have been established at the University of Dhaka (DU). Chairperson of DU Microbiology Department Prof. Dr. Anowara Begum handed over a cheque for Tk. 10 lac and former Chief Scientific Officer of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission Alhaj Shah Mohammad Nurul Huda handed over a cheque for Tk. 5 lac separately to the Vice-Chancellor of DU Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman today February 3, 2022 at the latter’s office of the university to set up “Prof. Dr. Anwarul Azim Chowdhury” and “Sulaiman Shah BSc- Prof. Dr. Hironmoy Sen Gupta Trust Fund” respectively.
DU Treasurer Prof. Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed, Dean of the Faculty of Science Prof. Dr. Md. Abdus Samad, Chairman of the Department of Physics Prof. Dr. ABM Obaidul Islam, Registrar Probir Kumar Sarker and some other teachers of DU Microbiology Department were present on this occasion.
Out of the income of Prof. Dr. Anwarul Azim Chowdhury Trust Fund, every year four financially challenged students of DU Microbiology Department will be given scholarship.