600 students awarded degrees at COMSATS

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) held its 45th convocation and awarded graduate and post-graduate degrees to more than 600 successful students.
Deputy Speaker National Assembly, Faisal Karim Kundi was the chief guest of the convocation, held here today at convention center. While addressing the gathering, he appreciated the efforts of CIIT faculty, management and visionary leadership.
He said CIIT, recognizing its duties is committed to provide the best opportunities for learning and personal development within a caring and supportive environment.
Earlier, welcoming the guests Rector CIIT Dr SM Junaid Zaidi said knowledge acquirement and higher education are transforming virtually every aspect of today’s world.
He said IT institutions have been trusted to be the center stage of academia. These institutions have the mandate to evolve a knowledge based socio-economic culture in the country to help the nation to face the modern challenges of globalization. Moreover, there were more than 600 students in two different ceremonies, who secured BS degrees in disciplines of Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics, Biosciences, Business Administration, Computer Engineering, Electrical (Telecommunication and Computer Engineering) Electronics, Mathematics and Architecture from Islamabad Campus.
MS degrees were awarded to 25 students in Management Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Architecture, Physics, Computer Science, Bio Sciences, Metrology and Mathematics.
PhD degrees were awarded to four students in disciplines of Physics and Mathematics. Besides, Chancellor’s Institute, Campus and Patron Medals were also awarded to position holding students from different campuses of CIIT.
Graduate and post graduate students bagged campus medals, institute medals and Chancellor’s gold medals with 3.75 CGPA, while patron medal was given to Madiha Tariq with 4 CGPA.
Dr QK Ghori award for the best performance in Mathematics was given to Munazza Batool. The Chancellor’s gold medalists included Hafiz Muhammad Faisal Javed, Nimra Atiq Lodhi, Sajid Sarwar, Huma Hayat, Salina Shahid, Syed Awais Wahab Shah, Sufyan Hafeez Khan Zakir-ur- Rehman, Syed Meesam Raza Naqvi, Sarmad Makhdoom, Inum Arshad and Noreen Afzal, for spring session 2012.
CPWBR handed over 11 children to parents: Child Protection and Welfare Bureau Rawalpindi (CPWBR) has handed over 11 children to their parents. CPWBR officials told APP here on Wednesday that rescuer team of CPWBR has taken these children from various locations of the twin cities, adding that they were involved in begging, picking garbage some of them were drug addicts. These children have been handed over after giving written assurance of taking good care of these children. They further informed that the bureau is providing education, health and other basic facilities to children.
People like to visit seaside: study: Researchers have discovered that people of all age groups found the seaside more refreshing and its positive effect on health than the countryside or an urban park. Researcher Mathew White said it could reflect an “innate preference” for the sights and sounds of water. The study examined how different types of outdoor environments could generate different reactions from people in terms of encouraging a sense of relaxation and calm. This found that being beside the coast was significantly more likely to create a feeling of well-being. The research, from the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, is being presented to the annual conference of the British Psychological Society.
The study found that in six different age groups the seaside was always identified as being a more positive experience than other inland parks or country walks. This preference for the coast was found both in the general population and among walkers.
Those who were travelling alone were particularly likely to get more enjoyment from the coast. There could also be social or cultural expectations about the benefits of the seaside, suggest the researchers. “There is a lot of work on the beneficial effects of visiting natural environments, but our findings suggest it is time to move beyond a simple urban versus rural debate and start looking at the effect that different natural environments have on people’s health and well-being,” said Dr White.