27 November 2017 The foundation stone-laying of Lungs Treatment and Research Centre was held at Battase Daanda, Panauti-5, Kavre. The centre will be one of the first institutions in Nepal to provide primary and tertiary-level facilities for the treatment of lungs-related diseases. The centre will be divided into four components: asthma treatment, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) treatment, allergy centre and diagnosis centre. The program was attended by Prof. D...

On November 21, 2017, Dr. Bal Chandra Luitel, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of School of Education conducted a 3-hour long workshop for researchers, academics and staff members across southern African universities during the 2017 Conference organized by Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa (HELTASA) at Coastlands Umhlanga Hotel and convention centre, Durban, South Africa. Titled as “Transformative educational research as/for professiona...

On 27 November 2017, the completion ceremony of the Korean language course was held in CV Raman Auditorium. Ms. Eunji SIM, who was dispatched from Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in January 2016, taught Korean at Kathmandu University for about two years. Eleven of her students studied Level 1 (Beginner course), Level 3 (Intermediate course) and Level 5 (Advance course) and received a certificate. Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ram Kantha Makaju Shrestha, Registrar P...

Aviyantaa’17 and 6th Anniversary of Turbine Testing Lab Department of Mechanical Engineering kicked-off Aviyantaa’17 on 23rd November, 2017. Aviyantaa is a project exhibition of undergraduate students of Mechanical Engineering Department held every year. On this day, Turbine Testing lab (TTL) also marked its 6th anniversary. The release of the magazines of Aviyantaa’17 and 6th anniversary issue of TTL was done at TTL Auditorium.......[for more..]   /* Sty...

19 November 2017

20 November 2017 The first program of the 23rd Convocation of Kathmandu University was held awarding degrees to the graduates of School of Medical Sciences. This year 1189 graduates received degrees, including 4 in M.Ch. and DM, 115 in MD, 54 in MS, 3  in MDS, 2 in M.Sc., 571 in MBBS, 155 in BDS, 208 in B.Sc. (Nursing), 58 in BNS and 19 in BPT. The Program was chaired by Mr. Gopal Man Shrestha, Honorable Deputy Prime Minister, Miniter of Education and Pro-Chancellor of KU....

On 21 November 2017, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between KU and M.I. Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University, SRSPU (NPI). Prof. Dr. Ram Kantha Makaju Shrestha, the Vice Chancellor, represented KU, and Rector Vladimir Perederiy represented SRSPU (NPI). The MoU signing was facilitated by Prof. Dr. Bhadra Man Tuladhar, former Registrar of KU. The MoU targets to establish partnership in the educational and research fields through faculty exchange in the fi...

On Sunday, 17 September 2017, KOICA Nepal donated a collection of 59 books related to Korean Language and Literature, to the Kathmandu University Central Library. The collection includes Korean textbooks, Korean modern novels, Korean modern poetry, and Korean classical poetry. Ms. Eunji Sim, Korean Language volunteer for KU working at the Humanities and Management Unit, School of Engineering, handed the books to the staffs of the Central Library. Faculties, staffs and students in...

Geomatics Engineering Society (GES) successfully conducted the World GIS Day 2017 on November 15 in collaboration with Nepal Geomatics Engineering Society (NGES). The students of Geomatics Engineering organized the program as a representative from Nepal inviting all other respective organizations working in the field of GIS such as Build Change, Survey Department, NAXA Pvt. Ltd, ADMC Pvt. Ltd, GIS Pvt. Ltd and so on. The special guest in the program was Mr. Ashok Kumar Byanju, the Mayor of Dhul...

Digital Learning Research Lab (DLR Lab) organized a Workshop on MOOC in Scientific Research Writing” on 7 November 2017. The objective of this workshop was to develop and finalize the syllabus on scientific research writing. Hence Professors who are involved in several research projects were invited in the event. Mr. Manoj Shakya and Mr. Sushil Shrestha, Assistant Professors at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, are the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Inv...