AMU Digest October 2009

10 Facts About Sir Syed, Every Alig Should Know

Dr. Rafiuddin Ahmad "The Father Of Indian Dentistry"

Was An AMU Alumnus

AMU Will Now Spread To Educate, 5 New Campuses

Rapid Fire News ZHCET among TOP 5 in GOOGLE’s Challenge

Khushboo Mirza: The Girl Behind Glorious Voyage of Chandrayaan-1

Dr. Nadeen A. Ansari Presented Paper on Novel Diagnostic Biomarkers Of Diabetes in Turkey

From The Editor's Desk

Dear Friends,

Assalamoalaikum,

I am highly thankful to all of you for supporting AMU News and Views at www.amunewsandviews.com.

In order to give the best to all of you, this magazine AMU DIGEST came into being. On publication this very first edition, it is a matter of extreme joy to get connected to Aligs in a yet more wonderful way.

Soon other relevant topics will be added. We are open to all the suggestions and contribution of articles from all Aligs.

In the pipeline we have planned to touch diverse and useful fields. Some are tech related articles, food, health and student welfare etc.

If you wish you can send article in any desired field. We welcome your tips suggestions. Kindly write to us at [email protected] with subject line as AMU DIGEST.

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Table of ContentsFrom The Editor's Desk..........................................................................................................................................2

10 Facts About Sir Syed, Every Alig Should Know.................................................................................................3

59th Annual Convocation of AMU, A.R. Rahman An AMU Degree Holder Now......................................................3

Khushboo Mirza: The Girl Behind Glorious Voyage of Chandrayaan-1..................................................................4

JNMC To Enjoy Institute Status , Just Like AIIMS...................................................................................................4

AMU Will Now Spread To Educate .........................................................................................................................5

Rapid Fire News.....................................................................................................................................................5

Prof. Akhtar Haseeb Awarded With “VIGYAN GAURAV” .......................................................................................5

Tanveer Azam conferred upon "Young Scientist Award-2009"................................................................................6

ZHCET among TOP 5 in GOOGLE’s Challenge.....................................................................................................6

Feel The Zeal of JNMC...........................................................................................................................................6

Dr. Nadeen A. Ansari Presented Paper on Novel Diagnostic Biomarkers Of Diabetes in Turkey............................7

7 Reasons That Make Aligs An Unbeatable Blogger..............................................................................................8

3 Indispensable Tools To Make Research Work On Web, A Breeze.......................................................................9

List Of Institutions Providing Scholarships ...........................................................................................................10

Dr. Rafiuddin Ahmad "The Father Of Indian Dentistry" Was An AMU Alumnus ....................................................11

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10 Facts About Sir Syed, Every Alig Should Know

1. Sir Syed built Gulshan School in Moradabad about 16 years before building Muslim Anglo Oriental College.

2. The First job of Sir Syed was as a Munsif in a court of East India Company.

3. After his return from England in 1870 he started a magazine named “Tahdhib-al-Akhlaq” subtitled The Muslim Reformer.

4. The phrase “Scientific temper” was first used and coined by Sir Syed.

5. Sir Syed wrote Asbab-e-baghawat-e-Hind (Causes of Indian Revolt), which highlighted the policies of British government, responsible

for the mutiny.

6. Sir Syed instituted “The Muhammadan Educational Conference” in 1886, which held annual meetings in various Indian cities.

7. In 1878, he was nominated as a member of the Vice Regal Legislative Council

8. in 1888, he was knighted as the Knight Commander of the Star of India

9. In 1889, he received an honorary LLD degree from the University of Edinburgh.

10. Sir Syed was born on October 17, 1817 in Delhi.

59th Annual Convocation of AMU, A.R. Rahman An AMU Degree Holder NowThe music maestro A.R.Rahman and Urdu Professor Gopichand Narang, were conferred Honorary Doctorate degrees at the 59th

annual convocation of AMU Aligarh.

The Convocation was addressed by Mr. Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal as a Chief Guest.

A total of 2725 Bachelor degrees,

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1490 Masters degrees, 291 Ph. D. degrees were awarded.

Prachi Mendiratta (MBBS) created a record by claiming 14 Gold medals.

Justice A.M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India, Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University, presided

over the Convocation.

JNMC To Enjoy Institute Status , Just Like AIIMS

JNMC has already an established reputation in the filed of medicine and surgery, not only in India but in the entire Asian region. Its a welcome step by the Government to upgrade the facilities of this college to the level of AIIMS. It is

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Khushboo Mirza: The Girl Behind Glorious Voyage of Chandrayaan-1Chandrayaan -1, the recently launched satellite from India had a special connection with AMU and Amroha. Khushboo Mirza was one of the members in the 12 member team chosen for launching Chandrayaan-1. Khushbu Mirza completed her B. Tech (Electronics) from Aligarh Muslim University. She joined the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) after completing her studies. She belongs to Amroha , a small town in U.P. It is a great achievement indeed. Its a matter of pride for AMU as well as Amroha, Girls as well as boys of the country.


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estimated that 150 crores would be required for this task.

The up-gradation being sanctioned under the second phase of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna.

AMU Will Now Spread To Educate 5 More cities Bhopal, Pune, Calicut, Katihar and Murshidabad are honoured by getting an AMU Campus under expansion plans. The 11th 5-Year Plan will allocate funds worth 4,000 crores for the 5 new campuses of Aligarh Muslim University. Just like its parent campus , all the other 5 campus will also run schools. Only 3 universities in India, AMU, JMI and BHU are permitted to run schools.

Prof. Akhtar Haseeb Awarded With “VIGYAN GAURAV” Prof. Akhtar Haseeb, Chairman Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences has been awarded prestigious, "VIGYAN GAURAV" award by Council of Science and Technology, Government of Uttar Pradesh, on 21-02-2009 in Lucknow. The award carries Rs one lakh rupees. This

highest award of UPCST is given for his outstanding contribution in the field of research in Science and Technology.



Rapid Fire News• Academic Staff College of

AMU rated third best in India

• AMU Roboclub launches site for guidance for admission to M Tech- 2009 at http://mtech.amuroboclub.com

• Maulana Azad Library gets Digital Resource Centre, Closed Circuit TV and Campus Wide Online Catalogue on 16th March 2009 http://www.malibrary.com/

• Prof. M. Zuber Khan DSW and Dr. Mohammad Shakil Samadani will look after students' welfare and educational coordination respectively.

• Dr. Mohammad Hayat of the Zoology Department has been selected for the distinguished Taxonomist

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Tanveer Azam conferred upon "Young Scientist Award-2009"Mr. Tanweer Azam, Research Scholar, Section of Plant Pathology and Nematology, Department of Botany, A.M.U., Aligarh has been conferred upon the prestigious "Young Scientist Award-2009" by Bioved Research Society, Allahabad. The Award was conferred in the concluding session of "11th Indian Agricultural Scientists and Farmers' Congress 2009", held at Iswar Saran Degree College, University of Allahabad. Mr. Tanweer Azam completed his post graduation, in the year (2004) Botany form Department of Botany, A.M.U., Aligarh. Presently he has been working as "Research Assistant" in a project on "Phytoremediation" funded by Council of Science and Technology, Lucknow, (U.P.), under the supervision of Dr. Hisamuddin, Principal Investigator of the project as well as Assistant Director of Coaching and Guidance Center (CGC), Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

ZHCET among TOP 5 in GOOGLE’s Challenge

Google's "Got the 'Aptitude Challenge" was humbled by the students of ZHCET, AMU Aligarh. It ranked 5 after beating all the IIT and NIT colleges. XLRI Jamshedpur was rank 1 among 100 top ranked colleges. Abdullah Azhar Ali Khan - Electronics 3rd Year, Afaq Khan - Computers 3rd Year, Khursheed Alam Khan - Electronics 4th Year, Junaid Ansari -Computers 3rd Year, Sarfraz Alam Khan - Computers 2nd Year constituted the powerful team of ZHCET.

Feel The Zeal of JNMCThe annual college week of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, ZEAL 09, was inaugurated by Dr. Farhatullah Khan, Chief Guest. On this occasion Dr. Farhatullah


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encouraged the students to take part in extra curricular activities and emphasized the need for multi-dimensional personality in today's scenario. Dean Prof. Abu Qamar Siddiqui also graced the occasion and complimented medical college society for organizing such a grand program.

Principal Prof. Ashraf Malik said that such activities should become regular in college and promised full cooperation from his side. He informed the gathering about the achievements of college. The eminent personalities present were Prof. Aijaz Naqvi, Prof. Abida Malik, Prof. Shaista Vasenwala, Prof. Tabassum Shahab, Prof. M.U. Rabbani and Dr. Shariq Aqueel.

Dr. Nadeen A. Ansari Presented Paper on Novel Diagnostic Biomarkers Of Diabetes in TurkeyDr. Nadeem A. Ansari, Department of Biochemistry, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University attended the 3rd

International Conference on Molecular Medicine at Istanbul, Turkey and presented a research paper on a novel diagnostic



Prof. Farahatullah Khan addressing the ZEAL 09 organized at JNMC, AMU Aligarh

Award by the Professor T.C. Narendran Trust for Animal Taxonomy in recognition of his outstanding contribution to taxonomy.

• Parvin Shere's "KIRCHIAN"("FRAGMENTS") Awarded Best Book By Adabi Culture Of Varanasi

• Professor Hamid Ali of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been nominated for the first Zayed Future Energy Prize (ZFEP). Hamid Ali of Petroleum Studies Department at AMU is the first person to be nominated for the award named after UAE's founding father, the late Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

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biomarker for diabetes mellitus. Dr. Ansari's visit was supported by DST and the Indian National Science Academy.

Dr. Ansari's paper aimed at the identification of glucose modified Iysine-rich protein (Amadori IgG) in type 2 diabetes patients with complications of heart, eyes and kidney. Dr. Ansari said that modified protein might serve as a diagnostic biomarker for the disease and could help in the development of a targeted drug for the disease therapy.

Dr. Ansari has the honour of the publication of his research paper on diagnostic biomakers for diabetes mellitus (both type 1 & 2) in an American journal "Human Immunology". He has also presented his papers at five national and international conferences.

7 Reasons That Make Aligs An Unbeatable BloggerBlogs have emerged as a powerful tool for expression as well as distribution of contents over the net. This medium can be effectively utilized by Aligs for

various purpose. 10 years since the blogs were born mainly to act as an on-line diary. Fortunately this space is being used for much more than just an on-line diary e.g. Technology News, Recent News, Personal Journal, Education, Group Information, Distant course etc. The following qualities of Aligs make them perfect for blogging.

1. Aligs have excellent communication skills

2. Aligs are best story tellers

3. Aligs develop unmatched wit.

4. Aligs are prolific writers and mesmerizing poets.

5. Aligs are creative

6. Aligs are indefatigable activists

7. Aligs carry the legacy of Sir Syed who was himself a great author.

For any questions related to blogging, please email me at [email protected].


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3 Indispensable Tools To Make Research Work On Web, A BreezeWhen searching for in depth information about a topic, referencing the web is of utmost importance. We are aware of the bookmarking feature of the browsers, but there is more that you can do instead of just book marking the pages. There are tools that specifically highlight and store portion of web page that interests you. Some also provide an editor to edit the topic to suit your needs, store them on-line and share it with people.

Wired Marker is a Firefox plug-in that lets you highlight the required lines of text and images on a certain web page, just as you do with a highlighter pen on your notebooks.

The following figure shows a highlighted portion of a web page. This can be retrieved any time, whenever you log on to the net.

Along with this it also support an export feature where all the highlighted clips can be exported to a single file.

Get it From Here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6219

Clipmarks has a super easy to use interface. It automatically guesses the paragraphs and pictures just when you place the cursor over a certain piece of text.

The limitation however in this is that each clip can only be of thousand characters. For more characters you have to opt for a new clip.



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Evernote is yet another versatile Firefox plug-in to do the same job. It does not have the limitation on text per clip, like clipmarks but it poses a limitation on amount of space used per month to 40 MB for free users. For students I think it is more than enough.

This can make your research work on web organized and less taxing than bookmarking entire pages. As all are free I suggest it to use in combination to gain maximum advantage. If the MB limit is crossed in Evernote, start with clipmarks.

List Of Institutions Providing Scholarships Aamir Mustafa Kidwai TrustContact Person: Mrs Aziza KidwaiB-28, West End Colony, New Delhi - 110021; Tel. 011-24670009, Mob:

09868679107Scheme: Financial assistance & scholarships for pursuing higher studies to needy and meritorious persons belonging to educationally backward minorities.

Aga Khan Education Service, IndiaAga Khan Education Service, IndiaC/o Diamond Jubilee High School for BoysMazagaonMumbai 400010Tel: (22) 23731811 / 23731701 / 23731852Fax: (22) 23731488Email: [email protected]

Aga Khan Foundation (UK)Aga Khan Foundation, Sarojini House, 6 Bhagwan Das Road, New Delhi 110001Scheme: University study in the UK for grad and post grad programmes

Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, TheMassachusetts Institute of Technology, 77, Massachusetts Ave. Vomm 7-238, Cambridge M A 02139-4307 USAScheme: Three scholarships awarded every year for research & investigation in Architecture of the Muslim world.


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Dr. Rafiuddin Ahmad "The Father Of Indian Dentistry" Was An AMU Alumnus

Dr. Rafiuddin Ahmad is known as Father Of Indian Dentistry. He was Born on 24 December 1890, in Bardhanpura of East Bengal. He completed his graduation from Aligarh Muslim University in 1908. Later he went to Iowa School of Dentistry and earned his DDS in 1915. He returned to India in 1919 and started his own dental practice.

The First Dental College of India was established in Calcutta presently Kolkata by Dr. Rafiuddin Ahmad, in the year 1924. It was then called Calcutta Dental College and Hospital and was constructed single handedly by him without any government aid. He donated his college to the Government of Bengal and served as the Principal from 1920 to 1950. Incidentally it was the first Dental College to be established in Asia. After his death the college was renamed after him as Rafiuddin Ahmad Dental College.

Dr. Rafiuddin's philosophy of education was

“Education is the responsibility of the state, but if nobody is willing to carry the cross, I will for as long as I can.”

In the year 1925 he founded the Bengal Dental Association and served as the President of Dental Council Of India from 1954 to 1958. The Indian Government awarded Padma Bhushan for his contributions in the filed of dentistry. He was awarded Fellowships of International College Of Dentists, Fellowship Of Royal College Of Surgeons and Fellow Of Pierre Fauchard Academy. Today he is remembered as the Nestor and Dean Of Dentistry, Dental Education and the Dental Profession in India. He published the first textbook of Operative Dentistry. He started the Indian Dental Journal as well. He was the editor of various reputed international journals. He left for heavenly abode on 18 January 1965.



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