DHAKA, Jan 9, 2022 (BSS) - A total of 12 meritorious students of the 
Department of Mass Communication and Journalism of Dhaka University (DU) have 
received 'Professor Sitara Parveen Award' for their outstanding academic 
results in BSS Honors Examination of 2019.

   Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the university Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman 
distributed the scholarships today among the awardees as the chief guest at a 
function held at DU Professor Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium.

   The award recipients are: Mili Akhter, Ritu Karmaker, Jannatul Islam Ria, 
Tahura Tabassum Tari, Sumia Zahid, Tariq-ul-Islam, Tipu Sultan, Saidul Islam, 
Tanha Tasnim Ety, Farhana Akhtar, Mst. Nusrat Zebin Biva and Sumya Arefin 
Arni.

  Chairman of the Department and also the syndicate member of DU Prof Dr Abul 
Mansur Ahmed presided over the function while Director of Bangabandhu Sheikh 
Mujib Research Institute for Peace and Liberty Prof. Dr. Fakrul Alam 
delivered "Sitara Parveen Memorial Lecture". 

   Prof Ahaduzzaman Mohammad Ali gave vote of thanks on the occasion. 

   While addressing the programme, DU VC paid glowing tribute to the memory 
of Prof Dr Sitara Parvin and said she was an honest, sincere and devoted 
teacher of the university. 

   He urged the students to equip themselves with humanitarian and non-
communal values following the ideal of late Prof Dr Sitara Parvin.

   Students have to play pioneering role for making an inclusive society as 
well as achieving SDGs by 2030, he said calling upon the students to maintain 
health protocol to prevent Covid-19.

   Prof Akhtaruzzaman called upon the awardees to work hard for making the 
society enlightened by following the ideals of Prof Sitara Parveen.

   Prof Sitara Parveen was a daughter of former President Justice Shahabuddin 
Ahmad and the wife of Prof Dr Ahaduzzaman Mohammad Ali. She died in a tragic 
road accident in the USA on June 23 in 2005.