Dr. Prachand Man Pradhan and Mr. Ramesh Adhikari from the Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering participated in “International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Post Disaster Reconstruction Planning (ICEE – PDRP 2016) organized by Khowpa Engineering College, Bhaktapur on 24 – 26 April 2016. Detail here.

On 27 April 2016, Prof. Dr. Bhola Thapa, the Registrar, marked the clebration of the University's Silver Jubilee amid a vibrant gathering of musicians, faculties and students in a program organized by Kathmandu University Society of Music and Culture (KUSMC). The program featured well-known band Kanta dab dab. More information here.

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Prof. Dr. Mohan Bikram Gewali, Dean, School of Science, KU  and Mr. Cas de Stoppelaar, Chairman of Himalayan Tiger Foundation (the Netherlands), signed an MOU on 28 April 2016 for a duration of five years.     The MOU will focus on the organization of joint academic and scientific activities such as courses, conferences, seminars, symposia or lectures; the exchange and sharing of teaching and academic materials, public...

Prof. Dr. Ram Kantha Makaju Shrestha, the Vice-Chancellor of KU and Prof. Dr. Xie Heping, President of Sichuan University (SU), China signed an Agreement of Intent on 27 April 2016 for the duration of five years.   In accordance with this Agreement, cooperation between the two universities shall be carried out through such activities as: a. Exchange of faculty/staff b. Exchange of undergraduate students c. Joint training of postgraduates d. Joint research activities and ...

A research grant agreement was signed between School of Science, Kathmandu University (KU) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Nepal, on April 14, 2016. The agreement was signed by Prof. Dr. Mohan Bikram Gewali, Dean of School of Science, KU, and  Mr. Anil Manandhar, Country Representative of WWF, Nepal. The agreement took place in the gathering of personalities from WWF: Dr. Ghana Shyam Gurung, Senior Conservation Program Director of WWF, Nepal; Mr Shiv Raj Bhatta, Director of the...

Mr Eak Prasad Duwadi Assistant Professor at HMU presented a paper entitled "Improving English Learning in the Nepalese Universities"  in the 50th Annual ​ IATEFL​ International Conference in England.  ​He  also attended the plenaries by the world-class Professors Silvana Richardson, David Crystal, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Scott Thornbury, IATEFL president Marjorie Rosenberg, and Jan Blake besides attending numerous workshops. ...

Education, Technology and Entrepreneurship. The event features multifarious contests, competitions and programs that are expected to emphasize and consequently elaborate the role of information technology on radical and multidimensional development of the nation as a whole. According to KUCC, as many as twenty thousand visitors are expected to visit the event this year, which may include anyone and everyone with an inclination towards information technology and the computing world. ...

Mr. Prem Narayan Paudel, Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, along with Mr. Balram Pokhrel and Mr. Babi Kumar Kafle, colleagues from the same Department, and Dr. Rajendra Gyawali, Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacy, got a research article published in the International Food Research Journal, 23(3): 1005-1011 (2016). The paper is entitled “Analysis of heavy metals in some commercially important fishes of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.&r...

Dr. Gunjan Bisht Thapa, Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, with Mr. Sagar Rayamajhi student of Department of Biotechnology published a review article entitled “ZnO Nanoparticles: A Promising Anticancer Agent” in Journal of Nanobiomedicine (Intech Open), doi:  10.5772/63437. This review has mainly focused on ZnO NPs, the relation between zinc and cancer, zinc’s role in the human body and the probable mec...

Mr. Chitranjan Prasad Shah, a student of MTech IT at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, presented  and published a paper entitled "