United Nations Award for IUBAT Founder

Professor M. Alimullah Miyan, Founder and Vice Chancellor of IUBAT, received the prestigious Flagship Project Award from United Nations University in November for creating the report, “Knowledge Based Area Development (KBAD)”, which aims to break the vicious cycle of poverty in Bangladesh through building a prosperous society based on capacity-building.

The primary objective of KBAD is to ensure that young people from all over Bangladesh have the opportunity to gain higher education in marketable knowledge and career skills.

IUBAT Faculty Member opens Free Friday Clinic

Dr. Gopal, a faculty member at College of Nursing, stands in front of the new Free Friday Clinic that he has opened in cooperation with a welfare association in the IUBAT neighbourhood.  This clinic is open to anyone who is in need on Friday mornings. It is staffed by Dr. Gopal and several other physician volunteers.  IUBAT nursing students will also be assisting Dr. Gopal in this humanitarian endeavour, starting in 2014.

Rush Hour During the End of Ramadan in Bangladesh

Many may already know that Bangladesh is a densely populated country, one of the most densely populated in the world.  If not, imagine a country that houses approximately half the population of the United States, but only occupying a space 1.5% of the size, and that should give a better sense of how crowded conditions are in Bangladesh.

For a more visual depiction of the density of this country, watch this video of rush hour traffic conditions: http://safeshare.tv/w/vwncRciSFb