Kathmandu University

KU InsiderVolume 4 | issue 2 | May - July, 2016

New Building (Block 9) After Substantial Handover

KU Shape Formed by Performers During “Sports Week 2016” Inauguration Ceromony Senate Meeting

Kathmandu University (KU) Senate held and presented overview of academic Annual Program as well as Budget for the its 72nd Meeting on 4 June 2016, with the achievements as well as infrastructure next fiscal year. Chancellor, Rt. Hon’ble Prime Minister development. He also recounted social The meeting endorsed all the tabled KP Sharma Oli presiding as the Chair. Mr. service offered by the University after the documents and approved annual budget Giriraj Mani Pokhrel, Hon’ble Minister for devastating earthquake of 25 April 2015. for the next fiscal year. Prof. Dr. Bim Prasad Education was also present in the meeting. Prof. Dr. Bhola Thapa, Registrar presented Shrestha has been nominated as a member of Prof. Dr. Ram Kantha Makaju Shrestha, the Audit Reports of 2071/72 B.S., Annual the Senate for the coming three years. Vice Chancellor gave welcoming remarks Progress Reports of 2072/73 B.S., and

Vice Chancellor’s Visit Welcome to the Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ram Kantha Makaju Shrestha, the people. During the conference, he also met Vice Chancellor made a week long official visit with the representatives and leader of other to US to advance collaborative engagements universities, including University of Alabama of KU in April 2016 with US Universities. Dr. at Birmingham, University of Wisconsin, Biraj M Karmacharya, faculty at KU School Medical College of Wisconsin, University of of Medical Sciences coordinated the visit and Washington, Stanford University, Sun-Yat-sen accompanied Prof. Shrestha. University and Wuhan University. Prof. Shrestha, presented at Consortium of Prof. Shrestha also visited Stanford University Universities of Global Health, San Francisco and met with leadership and faculties at the on 11 April where he had been invited to School of Medicine: Prof. Michelle Barry deliver planery speech in the Presidents’ Panel (Senior Associate Dean of Global Health), session. This meeting is one of the largest Professor Mark Cullen (Director, Centre for Kathmandu University extends gatherings of universities engaged in global Population Health Sciences), Prof. Sherry congratulatious to Rt. Hon’ble Prime health. Prof. Shrestha placed emphasis on Wren (Vice Chair, Department of Surgery), Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal for collaborations between academic institutions Prof. Lloyd B. Minor (Dean, School of being elected as the 39th PM of the in the developed and developing world Medicine), Prof. Mark Nicolls (Chief of country. Rt. Hon’ble Prime Minister to create visible impact in the lives of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine). is the Chancellor of the University as Next to Stanford, Prof. Shrestha per the University Act 1991. KU family visited University of Washington hopes that the University attains higher (UW) in Seattle where he had official academic excellence during your meeting with the President Prof. Chancellorship. Inside this issue: Senate Meeting 2 Welcome to the Chancellor 2 Vice Chancellor’s Visit 2-3 MoU 4 Appointment 4 CLT in KU 4 Feature Story 5 News in Brief 6 Awards, Grants and Honours 6 Ana Mari Cauce (President), Dr. Jeffrey other Universities, he highlighted how Riedinger (Vice-Provost for Global Affairs), proactive collaborations are fundamental Faculty Activities : Publication and leadership at the School of Medicine to quality education. He also delivered and Presentation 7 and School of Public Health: Prof. Robb guest lecture entitled “From Countries to Workshop, Training and MacLellan (Head, Division of Cardiology), Communities: Global Health Professionals as Other Events 8-9 Prof. Brant Oelschlager (Chief, Division of Agent of Change” at the 22nd Academia for Inbound Visit 10 General Surgery), Prof. Jorge Reyes (Chief, Global Medicine, JW Lee Center for Global Transplant Surgery), Prof. Paul Ramsey Medicine at the Seoul National University. Students Corner 11 (CEO, UW Medicine, and Dean of School During Korea visit, the Vice Chancellor met, Ongoing In-house Activities 12 of Medicine), Prof. Howard Frumkin (Dean, Kwon Tae-myon (KOICA Vice President) School of Public Health), Dr. Joel Berg (Dean, and other delegates; held discussion School of Dentistry), Prof. Ben Anderson KU Insider is published quarterly for the with the dignitaries from Seoul National (Surgery and Global Health Medicine), faculties and staffs of Kathmandu University. University Hospital (SNUH) and delivered Prof. Judith Wasserheit (Chair, Department Items for inclusion should be sent to editorial. talk to the faculties and students of SNUH; of Global Health), Prof. Annette Fitzpatrick [email protected]. Further, if you have ideas signed MoU with National IT Industry (Assistant Dean, School of Public Health), for ways we can improve the publication, Promotion Agency (NIPA); visited Sooam Dr. Nona Sotoodehnia (Co-Director, please write us. Bio-technology Lab which is working on the Cardiovascular Health Research Unit). Editor: Khagendra Acharya Team Members: Ambika Thapa (News) Rajesh Shrestha (IT)

cloning; held discussions with Yuil Trading Corporation which is a manufacturer of medical equipments; met the President of KOHEA; interacted with the Director of Raphael Centre; held discussion with the Vice Administrator of Rural Development Centre at CBNU. Discussions were also held with the Centre’s President, and Prof. Dr. Sung-Hoon Ahn. These meetings focused in scaling up existing collaborations within the field of global health and potentially in other disciplines. Prof. Shrestha also had a luncheon meeting with the Nepalese students at UW. He delivered a guest lecture entitled “From Survival to Revival: Redefining the Role of University in Post-earthquake Nepal” . In May, from 9 to 17, the Vice Chancellor visited Korea, along with two faculties from the University: Prof. Dr. Bim Prasad Shrestha and Dr. Biraj Karmacharya. The Vice Chancellor was invited atThe 5th Asian Universities Forum 2016 where he delivered keynote speech entitled “Universities creating Opportunities in Adversities: Experience from Nepal”. Giving past examples of collaboration of KU with Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

School will provide professional support to develop managerial resource and knowledge to EPF on need basis and EPF will provide experiential resource to the School faculty and students for management education and research. Between School of Science and Royal Thimpu College (Bhutan) on 24 June to facilitate collaborative academic activities and promote collaborative research. Between School of Science and Northwestern Chinese Plant Natural Compounds Bank, Between Kathmandu University and Sichuan Between School of Management and Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics University (China) on 27 April for five years Employee Provident Fund on 16 June for (China) on 28 June to pursue joint research to facilitate exchange of faculty/staff and two years to work for the development of activities on bioactive natural constituents undergraduate students, train postgraduate quality human resources in management of Chinese and Nepali medicinal plants, and students jointly, carry out joint research and undertake area-related research. The develop new natural medicines. activities and publications, facilitate faculty participation in seminars and academic meetings, exchange academic materials and other relevant information and conduct short-term academic and professional programs. Between School of Science and Himalayan Tiger Foundation (the Netherlands) on 28 April for five years to organize joint academic and scientific activities. Between Kathmandu University and National IT Industry Promotion Agency on 11 May to provide opportunity in the development of ICT through mutual engagement in software development, academic/ research activities, training and capacity building and startup programs.

Appointment

and illuminating engineering, and signal CLT at KU processing. “I plan to strengthen academic KUSOED is set to launch Bachelor of program through attention to curriculum, Education in Chinese Language Teaching human resource and physical infrastructure,” (B Ed in CLT) in collaboration with he said and added, “It has been essential to the Confucius Institute Headquarters, accelerate research activities and reorient Hanban, China from August 2016. our works to address contextual needs.” Prof. Chhetri has already served the University The four-year program, which is first in the capacity of Coordinator of Masters ever in South Asia, aims to produce Program, and Head of the Department . Chinese language teachers. Enrolled Two new Head of the Departments also students study first year and fourth year began their term of office from May. in Nepal, whereas the second and third year courses are taught in China. All Prof. Dr. Janardan Lamichhane is leading admitted candidates are granted partial Department of Biotechnology. Prof. scholarship for the whole program and Lamichhane, who is in the University since full scholarship during their study in 1992, specializes on natural product analysis Prof. Dr. Bhupendra Bimal Chhetri has been China, including a round trip ticket. and molecular genetics. Dr. Bibuti Ranjan appointed the Dean of School of Engineering, Confucius Institute Headquarters, Jha, who has been in the University since effective from May 2016. Hanban will pay honorarium for first five 1993 is appointed to lead Department of Prof. Chhetri who completed Masters in years to the graduated students employed Environmental Science and Engineering 2000 and PhD in 2003 from Kyushu Institute in teaching Chinese in Nepal. (DOES). Dr. Jha specializes on fish and river of Technology, Japan specializes on lighting ecology. Feature Story: Restoring and Rebuilding

The restored complex will be a great asset in our aim. We will use the complex not only to house academic and research wing of the Department but also to revive traditional music, rituals and activities of Shivalaya complex. The latter objective is to acknowledge the fact that the courtyard of the temple used to hold many communal festivals and rituals. With the restoration of the complex, the Department will focus on research, performance training, ethnomusicology, Department of Music at KU has been granted We feel pride at the Department’s glorious music technology, music business and rights to restore Tripureshwor Mahadev history of 20 years. Since its establishment in organology. In this sense, this project is Temple complex (Rani Lalita Tripura Sundari August 1996 under the headship of Prof. Dr. meant not only to restore historical site but Complex) by the Guthi Sansthan. This Gert-Matthias Wegner, the Department has also to preserve musical traditions in the site project is being carried out under the aegis of been offering undergraduate and graduate for future generations. Prof. Dr. Ram Kantha Makaju Shrestha, the course in ethnomusicology (B.Mus. and -Dr. Lochan Rijal, Assistant Professor and Vice Chancellor of the University. M.Mus.) and practical music (South Asian Coordinator, Department of Music classical, Western Music and Nepalese Local The complex, comprising a three-storey traditions). temple, a number of sattals and a garden, was built in 1818 AD by Queen Lalita Tripura The Department also houses a great number Sundari, in memory of King Rana Bahadur of rare tapes, recordings and documents. Shah. The Queen had ruled the country In addition, there are very valuable and old as a Regent for more than 25 year. The musical instruments from all over the world. building carrying such a glory is awaiting In line with the objective of the Department, reconstruction after devastating earthquake we will continue training musicians and of 25 April 2015. ethnomusicologists to document, preserve, and work creatively with the endangered It is a matter of honour that Department of musical traditions. Music has been entrusted the responsibility.

KU Kitchen and the Crew Member News in Brief Awards, Grants and Honours

Release of Year Book 2014/15 WWF Grants to School of Science the Study of Leadership and Ethics (CSLEE) Undergraduate students of KUSOM in Penn State College, Pennsylvania, USA in School of Science (SoS) received grants released the print version of Year Book a global competition of PhD dissertations. from World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Nepal 2014/15 on 6 May. The book captures experience and insights of undergraduate on April 14. As per the agreement signed NORHED II Project to KUSOED by Prof. Dr. Mohan Bikram Gewali, Dean students at the School during their School of Education has been awarded of SoS, and Mr. Anil Manandhar, Country educational journey. five-year education program entitled Representative of WWF, the grant will be “Innovations in teaching and learning utilized for the assessments of Non Timber through contextualized approaches Forest Products (NTFPs) of the Langtang to increase the quality, relevance and area, their value addition, and to establish sustainability of education in Nepal” under collaboration mechanism for enterprise the Norwegian Program for Capacity development and better livelihood. Development in Higher Education and KUSOED PhD Work Awarded Research for Development (NORHED). Participation in Erasmus Meeting PhD dissertation of Mr. Prakash C. Bhattarai, Targeted to motivate and strengthen capacity Dr. Rabindra Bista, Assistant Professor “Ethical Leadership in Nepali Technical of the stakeholders at local as well as national at DoCSE and Coordinator of Erasmus and Vocational Education and Training level, the project aims to establish dynamic Mundus Mobility Programs participated (TVET) Schools: A Convergent Mixed networks of innovative, transformative and in Selection Committee Meeting of Methods Study” has been chosen as a Highly contextualized educational programs. Dr. Bal INTACT and LEADERS Projects at Commended Award winner of the 2015 Chandra Luitel, Associate Dean of School University of Limerick, Ireland, held Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral of Education will coordinate the project on during 12 to 13 April. The meeting Research Awards in the Education and behalf of the School. The project starting selected candidates for the two projects Leadership Strategy category. His work from 2016 has 4,518,396 NOK to utilize. from among 21 universities in Asia and was also awarded with Paul Begley Award Tribhuvan University (TU) and Norwegian Europe. This year one PhD, four Master and five Undergraduate candidates from 2015 by University Council of Educational University of Life Sciences (NMBU) are the KU received Erasmus Scholarship. Administration (UCEA)’s Consortium for other project partners. Kanta dAb dAb band at KU Nepali fusion band Kanta dAb dAb UGC, Nepal Research Grantees performed in a program organized by Kathmandu University Society of Music Dr. Rajani Shakya, Mr. Paras Mani and Culture (KUSMC) on 27 April at the Assistant Professor Timilsina, Assistant Central Campus. Prof. Dr. Bhola Thapa, at Department of Professor at DoBT; Registrar inaugurated the program Pharmacy; Project: Project: Screening and amidst a gathering of musicians, faculties Health Related Quality Proximate Analysis of and students. The musical event was of Life in Epilepsy: Microalgae for Bio-fuel organized to mark the celebration of the Impact of a Pharmacy Production in Pilot University’s Silver Jubilee. Intervention Program Scale Raceway Pond.

Dr. Gunjan Bisht Mr. Madhav Prasad Mr. Prakash Thapa, Assistant Pandey, Assistant Lamichhane, Lecturer Professor at Professor at DoEEE; at Department of Department of Project: ICT for Chemical Science Chemical Science and Climate Change and Engineering; Engineering; Project: Adaptation in Project: Isolation, Supercritical Carbon Developing Countries: A Characterization Dioxide Assisted Scoping Study for Nepal and Application of Synthesis of Magnetic Nanocomposites for Natural Dye in Dye Sensitized Solar Cell, An Alternative Way to Reduce the Energy Crisis Industrial Waste Water Treatment Mr. Eak Prasad Duwadi, Assistant Mr. Bijendra Shrestha, Professor at Mr. Sandeep Shrestha, Lecturer at theDoME; HMU; Project: Project: Design Assistant Professor Doctor Patient and Development at DoESE; Project: Communication in of Natural Draught Hydrogeochemistry Dhulikhel Hospital; Institutional Improved Studies of Himalayan also, grants from Cooking Stove to Assist Glacier: A Case Study British Council, Nepal to work on Historical National Policy for the of Ponkar Glacier, Developments in English in Nepal: A Case Implementation of Clean Cooking Stove for Manang District, Nepal Study. all by the Year 2017 Faculty Activities: Publication and Presentation

Presentation w Mr. Dhiraj Shrestha, Lecturer at the presented paper entitled “Activity Based Department of Mathematics Instruction: Experiences in w Dr. Prachand Man Pradhan and Computer Science Addressing the 21st Century Skills.” Mr. Ramesh Adhikari participated in and Engineering International Conference on Earthquake A number of MPhil students also presented: (DoCSE) spoke on Engineering and Post Disaster Reconstruction Ramesh Neupane on “Teaching and Learning “Building an Android Planning organized by Khowpa Engineering Mathematics in a Cultural Context: Ping as a app and SMS System College, Bhaktapur from 24 to 26 April. Project”; Toyanath Sharma on “Meaningful for Migrant Workers,” Dr. Pradhan is Assistant Professor and Mr. Mathematics through Cultural Artifacts”; in Regional Forum Adhikari is Lecturer at Department of Civil Deependra Buthathoki on “Appreciative on ICT Human Capacity Development and and Geomatic Engineering (DoCGE). Pedagogy in Nepalese Mathematics Launch of the Women and ICT Frontier Classroom” co-authored with Binod Prasad The paper entitled “Retrofitting design of Initiative organized by United Nations Asian Pant (Lecturer) and Pundary Phuyal; Kathmandu University staff quarter Block and Pacific Training Centre for Information Durga Prasad Dhakal on “Philosophy of 32 ‘A’ after Gorkha Earthquake 2015” and Communication Technology for Mathematics and its Relevance in Maths coauthored by Dr. Pradhan, Mr. Adhikari Development (UN-APCICT/ESCAP) Classroom”; Santosh Poudel on “The Use and final year students -Aashutosh Aryal, from 9 to10 June in Incheon, Korea. KU is of ICT in Mathematics Classroom” (poster) Aasish Dangal, Sandip Duwadi, Dron Raj APCICT’s Primer partner institution. co-authored with Pundary Phuyal and Ghale, Sanjeev Pandey and Pramod Rai is w Dr. Gajendra Sharma, Associate Professor Deependra Buthathoki. published in the conference proceedings. at DoCSE delivered w Mr. Eak Prasad Duwadi, Assistant keynote speech at Professor at HMU, presented paper entitled 10th International Publication “Improving English Learning in the Nepalese Conference on Crisis Universities” at the 50th Annual IATEFL and Emergency “Trace elements and organochlorine International Conference in England from 13 Management held at pollutants in selected fish species from to 15 April. Lucern, Switzerland Lake Phewa, Nepal” co-authored by from 16 to19 June. Dr. Chhatra Sharma in Ecotoxicology w Dr. Umesh Rajopadhyaya, Lecturer at The conference was jointly organized and Environmental Chemistry (June School of Management, presented paper by International Society of Crisis and 2016, online); Dr. Sharma is Assistant on “A Common Emergency Management at Florida State Professor at the Department of Envi- Fixed Point Theorem University, Korea IT Policy Forum and ronmental Science and Engineering. for Sequence of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China). Mappings in Semi- “Analysis of heavy metals in some com- mercially important fishes of Kath- metric Space with w Mr. Sushil Shrestha and Ms. Aarya Joshi Compatible Mappings presented paper entitled “Role of Knowledge mandu Valley, Nepal” co-authored by of Type (E)” in Asian Management in Business Startups” in Prem Narayan Paudel, Balram Pokhrel, Conference on Fixed First International Conference on Social Babi Kumar Kafle, and Dr. Rajendra Point Theory and Optimization held at Entrepreneurship Nepal held at Kathmandu Gyawali in the International Food Re- King Mongkut’s University of Technology, from 30 June to 1 July. The paper is based on search Journal, 23(3): 2016; Mr. Pou- Thailand on 25 May. research work supervised by Mr. Shrestha del, Mr. Pokharel and Mr. Kafle are and carried out by undergraduate students, lecturers at the Department of Chem- w Mr. Punya Prasad Koirala, lecturer at HMU, Aarya Joshi, Pradip Silwal, Torchi Rokaya ical Science and Engineering, and Dr. attended XIV Theory/Praxis Courseheld at and Manish Gautam. Mr. Shrestha is Gyawali is Asst. Professor at the De- University of Hyderabad, India, from 6 June Assistant Professor at DoCSE. partment of Pharmacy. to 2 July. Mr. Koirala also presented paper in seminar on “Secularism and Metaphysics of KUSOED faculties and students presented “Randomized Distance Based Clus- Presence” during the Course. The course was papers and posters in 13th International tering Algorithm for Energy Efficient offered by Forum on Contemporary Theory Congress on Mathematical Education held Wireless Sensor Networks” (book (FCT). in Hamburg, Germany from July 24 to chapter) co-authored by Dr. Rabindra 31. In the Congress attended by around Bista and Anmol Shakya in Advanced w Mr. Sanjay Pudasiani, faculty at the School 3500 participants from 109 countries, the Computing and Communication Tech- of Management, following faculties from the School presented nologies (June 2016); Dr. Bista is As- presented at a program their paper: sistant Professor at the Department of hosted by Ministry Computer Science and Engineering of Science, ICT and Mr. Binod Prasad Pant, Lecturer in the School, (DoCSE) and Mr. Shakya is a graduate Future Planning by presented on “Beliefs about the Nature of student at DoCSE. National IT industry Mathematics and its Pedagogical Influences” Promotion Agency at co-authored with Dr. Bal Chandra Luitel, Midlife Montage, a compilation of per- Seoul, South Korea on Associate Prof. of mathematics; sonal experience by Dr. Hem Raj Kaf- 21 July. le, Assistant Professor at HMU. Mr. Tika Ram Pokhrel, Assistant Professor, Workshop, Training and Other Events

KUSOM organized seminar on Man- agement Research in Nepal: Review and Preview on 27 May. The seminar fo- cused on trends in research in finance, marketing, and general management. Issues and challenges as well as future direction for management research were discussed. Dr. Swarnim Wagle delivered keynote speech and Prof. Pushkar Bajrachar- ya commented on the presentations. Management faculties, researchers, executives, and management research students participated in the seminar.

ALOP Workshop Lecture in Training Nanotechnology and Novel Materials Processing

Department of Chemical Science and Engi- neering in collaboration with Department of Natural Sciences organized one-day symposium on National Symposium on Na- notechnology and Material Processing at the Central Campus on 1 June. The event was attended by around 50 participants. Inaugurating the ceremony, Prof. Dr. Bhu- Prof. Deepak Prasad Subedi participated Dr. Rajendra Gyawali, Assistant professor pendra Bimal Chhetri, encouraged the as a resource person in five-day workshop at the Department of Pharmacy facilitated participants to dream big to solve national on Active Learning in Optics and Photonics Author AID/INASP, Uk funded workshop in problems like energy crisis, waste manage- (ALOP) during 16-20 June. The program Pokhara on 25 and 26 July. His lecture focused ment, and health and hygiene issues. Prof. was organized by Damak Mulutple Campus, on “Writing and publishing research paper.” Dr. Andrecz Huzko from Warsaw Univer- Nepal with technical support from TU (De- sity (Poland) and Prof. Dr. Jerzy Jurewich partment of Physics) and KU. Hydrogeological Approach from Universite de Sherbrooke (Canada) delivered plenary lectures. And, invited Seven resource persons facilitated 28 partici- School of Science (SoS) and School of lectures were given by Prof. Deepak Prasad pants during the workshop. ALOP is an inter- Engineering (SoE) in collaboration with Subedi and Prof. Bhadra Pokharel. national program of UNESCO to strengthen OXFAM, GB in Nepal accomplished five- learning environment for students in devel- day training on Hydrogeological Approach on Prof. Huczko placed enphams on devising oping countries by training physics teachers Spring Source Enhancement from 23-27 May. nanotechnology based materials to address various problems in Nepal. He also pointed in hands-on, minds-on intensive workshops. Four participants from KU and 15 from out at the need to collaborate experimen- OXFAM took part in the course. The first Infection Prevention and talist with theoreticians available in Nepal. day of the training was conducted by Prof. Control Prof. Jurewich and Prof. Subedi demon- Mohan Bikram Gewali, Dean, SoS and Prof. strated prospects of thermal and low tem- Department of Pharmacy in cooperation Ramesh Kumar Maskey, Associate Dean, SoE. perature plasma facilities for thin film dep- with University Grants Commission, Nepal The training was coordinated by Mr. Kumud osition, waste water treatment and surface organized one-day workshop on Infection Kumar Kafle, Associate Prof. at the DoESE. modification required for textile industries. Prevention and Control in Hospitals on 27 BFA Exhibition Project Prof. Bhadra Pokharel shed light on advan- May. Prof. Dr. Mohan Bikram Gewali, Dean tages of engaging researchers from TU and of SoS, inaugurated the program, and Dr. Ra- BFA Exhibition Project 2016 was held from 22 KU in collaborative ventures. Besides, eight jani Shakya, Acting Head of the Department, to 27 July at Nepal Art Council, Babarmahal. other papers were presented during the ses- delivered welcome speech. Prof. Dr. Ram Kantha Makaju Shrestha, the sion, mostly by graduate students. Vice Chancellor inaugurated the exhibition. The workshop, attended mainly by nursing The event was coordinated by Dr. Bhim P. Prof. Dr. Bhola Thapa, the Registrar, and His personnel from Scheer Memorial Hospital Kafle, Assistant Professor at DOCSEO; Excellency Marco Rossi (Phd) Ambassador and Dhulikhel Hospital, was run by Dr. Ree- other members of the committee were Dr. of Switzerland to Nepal also graced the tu Baral, Dr. Safiur Rahaman Ansari and Mr. Rajendra Joshi, Assistant Prof. and Mr. exhibition. This project showcased a wide- Sitaram Bhattarai. Prakash Lamichhane, Lecturer from the ranging art of 2012 batch of KU, School of Art, same Department. Center for Art and Design. Top Five Ideas for Start UP Himalayan Glaciology

The Himalayan Cryosphere, Climate and Disaster Research Center (HiCCDRC) at KU conducted training workshop on Himalayan Glaciology and Glacio- hydrological Modeling from 20 to 22 July at Sherubtse College (Bhutan). The training was conducted by Dr. Rijan Bhakta Kayastha, Coordinator of HiCCDRC. IdeaStudio at School of Management and One-day workshop was organized for the 20 Business Incubation Center at KU selected top selected ideas on 12 May at the Idea Studio. The event was organized as a part of five ideas on 20 May for the business start up. The participants were trained to prepare for the Himalayan University Consortium the Final Session. (HUC) Seed Grant Project funded by KU Idea Hunt 2016 was launched by Prof. the International Centre for Integrated Dr. Bhola Thapa, Registrar on 14 April. An On the Final Pitching Session held on 20 Mountain Development (ICIMOD). open call for all KU students to submit ideas May, the top five ideas were selected by a KU is the lead in the capacity building was announced on the same day. On 24 panel of judges from different sectors of project that includes Sherubtse April, an interaction program was organized industry. The selected ideas will be incubated College (Bhutan), Kabul University to facilitate and promote innovative thinking. and assisted through seed funding to launch (Afghanistan), Karakorum International their Start Up at Idea Studio. University (Pakistan) and Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (India) as other four partners.

Open Defecation Free Campaign Department of Environmental Science and Engineering (DoESE), organized one-day International Workshop on Open Defecation Free (ODF) Campaign and Septic Tanks Construction in Nepal: Entrepreneurship and Incubation What Next? on 5 June. One of the three sessions was chaired by KU Business Incubation Center (KUBIC) in Shrestha (KUSOM), Mr. Shashi Bhattarai Prof. Dr. Ram Kantha Makaju Shrestha, support of University Grants Commission, (KUBIC), Mr. Arun Sharma (HMU), Vice Chancellor. More than 100 Nepal organized three-day workshop on Mr. Brijesh Sharma (Nepal Telecom), Mr. personnel working in WASH sector had Entrepreneurship and Incubation at the Rojan Baniya (KUSOM), Mr. Deepesh participated in the workshop. Central Campus from 1 to 3 June 2016. The Vaidya (Kriti Capital), Ms. Rebecca Ordish workshop was attended by 50 participants. (KUSL) and Prof. Binod Krishna Shrestha (KUSOM). The workshop focused on various facets of Interaction with the topic like importance of entrepreneurship Certificate to the participants and token of Padma Jyoti and incubation, business development love to the speakers and organizing team An interaction with Mr. Padma Jyoti (KU process for startups, technology transfer, and were given away during closing session by Senate Member) on "Entrepreneurship- Intellectual Property Right and mentoring Prof. Dr. Bhupendra Bimal Chhetri, Dean of Three Fs: Fun, Failures and Fruits of process. SoE. Mr. Manoj Shakya, Assistant Professor Labor" was organized at the Central at DoCSE expressed vote of thanks. Participants were facilitated by Ms. Supriya Campu on 5 June. Koirala (KUBIC), Mr. Rupesh Krishna Mr. Jyoti, graduate from MIT, USA, is the Chairman of Jyoti Group of Companies and Butwal Power Company Ltd. He was a former member of the First Constituent Assambly and Lagislature Parliament of Nepal (2009-2013), Past President of SAARC chamber of commerce, Industry (SCCI) and Past President of federation of Nepalese Chamber of commerce and Industry. He is also Vice President of World Fellowship of Buddhists, Thailand. Inbound Visit

MRI Service at Dhulikehl Hospital

Mr. Ram Janam Chaudhary, Hon’ble Min- ister for Health and Population inaugurat- ed Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) service at Dhulikhel Hospital, KU Teaching Hospital on 29 June. The MRI is purchased with the capital expenditure that is grant- ed by Government of Nepal, the Ministry of Health and Population to community hospitals.

“Sustaining Cultural Heritage through Dig- General Rajendra Chhetri, the Chief of Nepal Army along with senior army officials visited ital Preservation” on 22 June. The program KU Central Campus and Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Teaching Hospital on was organized by the DoCSE.

30 June. w Dr. Tanya Doddy, Senior Research Scien- tist from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia w Mr. Brajamohan Das, founder and master gave a talk on “Connecting flow and ecology coach from Academy for Coaches, delivered in the Koshi River Basin (and beyond) to aid seminar talk on “Present Leadership” based integrated water resource management” on on the teachings of Bhagavad Gita on 10 May. 28 June at the Central Campus. w Dr. Andrzej Huczko, Professor of w Dr. Sumeet Jerath, Additional Secretary Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry and Financial Adviser to the Ministry of University of Warsaw, Poland visited External Affairs, Department of Natural Sciences from 11 May Government of to 11 June. During the stay, Prof. Huczko the Department of Civil and Geomatics India, visited KUS- supported in installing a low pressure plasma Engineering to carry out postdoctoral OM on 10 July and reactor in plasma physics laboratory and research. Dr. Kozubal, who specializes on delivered guest lec- contributed to research work in the field of geotechnics, will be in KU for two months ture to MBA stu- reactions under highly-energetic conditions. within the framework of academic mobility dents on “Practical This visit, after two former visits in 2012 program Erasmus Mundus –INTACT Management and and 2013, was an excellent opportunity to scholarship. Economic Issues”. strengthen already existing research ties and While interacting “I found KU a nice place for conceptual after the program with the faculty members, scientific collaboration in the field of plasma work; and, it has comfortable place to stay. Dr. Jerath discussed on the possibility of es- technology. Prof. Huczko's visit of this year is I am delighted to be here,” Dr. Kozubal said. tablishing institutional relationship between supported with a travel grant from The Abdus w IIMs in India and KUSOM. Salam International Centre for Theoretical Mr. Sujan Shrestha, Assistant Professor at Physics, Trieste, Italy. the University of Baltimore delivered talk on w A high level team of officials from Nepal Administrative Staff College (NASC), led by Executive Director, visited KUSOM on 18 May and held discussion with the Dean and other senior faculty on implementing collaborative activities as envisaged in the MoU signed between the two institutions. w Dr. Reina-Ortiz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health, University of South Florida delivered talk on “Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Public Health: an unlikely combination? ” The talk was held on 6 June. w Dr. Janusz Kozubal, Associate Professor Prof. Dr. Jacques J. M. van Alphen from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, delivered at Wroclaw University of Science and lecture to 3rd and 4th year Environmental Science students on 27 and 28 April at the Central Technology (Poland), is stationed at Campus. The lecture was jointly organized by School of Science and Himalayan Tiger foundation, the Netherlands. Students Corner

IT Meet 2016 Prime Minister Cup to Kathmandu University Computer Club KU (KUCC) organized its annual IT event, IT KU sports team become champion of the MEET-2016 on 29 and 30 April. The theme First Prime Minster Cup University Level of the Meet was Education, Technology and National Sports Tournament 2016, winning Entrepreneurship. four gold, four silver and five bronze medals. The event featured multifarious contests, Players from KU dominated table tennis with competitions and programs, including Students Welfare Directorate (SWD) gold and silver medal sweeps: Sujan Panta hardware competitions, software recommenced Sports Week, yearly mega and Deepika Shrestha won gold in singles; competitions, project demonstration, sports event of the University on 15 May. Sujan Shrestha and Abin Prajapati clinched googling competition, hackathon, coding Prof. Dr. Bhola Thapa, Registrar inaugurated gold in boys double; and, Deepika Shrestha competition, IT quiz competitions, gaming the event. and Rejsha Khoteja won gold in girls double. competitions, treasure hunts, 3D movies and KU players also secured silver medal in Android Gaming, among others. boys and girls singles. In other events too, KU players performed well; they grabbed Award to KUSOM for medals in badminton, stood seconds in Students basketball and won silver in chess team event. Four students of KUSOM won prestigious awards in the 2016 Global Enterprise Experience Competition organized by the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand on 10 June. The award was decided During the week, nearly 800 students from based on the business concept proposals seven Schools participated in 12 indoor developed by 890 undergraduate and and outdoor games. Begnas House bagged graduate students working in 110 global second runner-up trophy; Phewa and Tilicho teams. Mr. Arvind Karki, MBA IV Term, grabbed first runner-up trophy; and Rara along with six other team members, won stood as the champion. "Victoria Business School Champion Team Award". Each member received NZ$ 1000 cash prize. Ms. Agnesha Dahal, BBA VI Semester, along with other four other team members, won "University of Otago Business The tournament organized by National School Highly Commended Journal Award". Sports Council from 11 to 13 July had Ms. Pratistha Aryal and Ms. Shruti Kayastha, brought more than 280 students from eight BBA VI Semester, along with four other team Universities to participate in five sports members, won "Victoria Business School disciplines – table tennis, chess, volleyball, Highly Commended Team Award". basketball and badminton. KU squad comprising 41 members was led KUSOM Student in by Dr. Dhurva Gauchan, Associate Director (SWD), and representative and member of The event concluded officially on 25 May. Competition the organizing committee. Prof. Dr. Ram Kantha Makaju Shrestha, Mr. Adhish Kumar Gorkhali, final semester the Vice Chancellor thanked SWD and undergraduate student students for making the event grand and at KUSOM, participated CERT Training at KU successful. His address was followed by in 15th Chinese Bridge distribution of medals, certificates and Competition, representing Forum for Pharmacy (FoP), Pharmacy token of love. Nepal. The event is students’ club at KU organized one-day the biggest proficiency training program on Community Emergency competition organized Response Team (CERT) in collaboration by Confucius Institute with White Mountain Training Institute. where more than 100 winners of Chinese Forty undergraduate pharmacy students Bridge Competition in the respective were trained by Mr. Behrouz Moghaddasi, an countries are invited to participate in the Iranian physician and an expert in search and semi-final and final round of the competition. rescue training. Major areas covered in the The program is being held in China from 9 training were disaster preparedness, disaster July to 10 August. dorms, earthquake awareness and shake out. Ongoing In-house Activities

Silver Jubilee Monument Construction Site. Multipurpose Building Construction Site

Swiming Pool

New Building (Block 10) After Substantial Handover

Revival of Existing Biogas Plant Green House : Under Construction