42 IU students selected for NST fellowship

A total of 42 students from different departments of Islamic University in Kushtia have been selected for the National Science and Technology (NST) fellowship for the academic session of 2022-23. The fellowship is given by the Ministry of Science and Technology for research.

Each selected student will get Tk 54,000 as financial support for conducting research projects under the fellowship programme, IU acting registrar HM Ali Hasan said on Monday.

Among them, twenty-nine students from the biotechnology and genetic engineering department, six from applied chemistry and chemical engineering, three students from mathematics, two students from the electrical and electronic engineering department and one each from the statistics and applied nutrition and food technology departments have been selected for the fellowship, he added.