Faculty members and students of various departments, centres and faculties joined the ‘World Environment Day’ celebrations with a slew of green activities across the Aligarh Muslim University. Cleaning drives, awareness programmes and tree plantations were some of the highlights of the day.

Winners donned Ms Farewell sashes and received bouquets, certificates and mementoes as teachers and students of other classes bid adieu to the Class X and XII students in two separate farewell parties at the Aligarh Muslim University Girls School.

Dr Astrid Ensslin from Norway’s University of Bergen, delved into digital culture and digital humanities—exemplifying how literary expression in digital-born media exceeds and subverts traditional notions of literature.

Renowned naturalist Dr Asad Rafi Rahmani, Former-Chairman Dept of Wildlife Sciences AMU and Former-Director Bombay Natural History Society, highlighted the role of women in wildlife conservation and shared stories of conservation initiatives taken by the women in India.

The department of Community Medicine, JNMC, AMU sent a team of 22 Post Graduates and three Medico-social workers to attend a lecture so that they can be sensitized on envisioning dietary diversification for every household by eliminating micronutrient deficiency and achieving an iron deficiency-free world through rice fortification.

Aligarh Muslim University research scholar, Hamza from the Department of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College got the ‘best paper award’ for investigations on ‘Migraine’ in the ‘48th Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists Annual Conference’ held at Madurai.