On February 23, 2011, Water Efficiency Measurement Laboratory was inaugurated at the Royal Scientific Society (RSS). The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided its support to the Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology for the establishment of this unique laboratory in Amman. The inaugural ceremony was …

The Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Pakistan, H.E. Mr. M. Babur Hizlan, visited COMSATS Secretariat on January 26, 2011. In a meeting with the Executive Director COMSATS, the Turkish Ambassador was apprised of the former’s recent visit to Turkey (December 2010), during which he held meetings with the officials of TÜBİTAK and COMSATS’ …

A delegation of COMSATS participated in the Second International eHealth Conference, held in Islamabad on 22nd & 23rd January 2011. The Conference that had been organized by eHealth Association of Pakistan (eHAP) was co-sponsored by COMSATS. Other sponsors included: the World Health Organization; the Rockefeller Foundation; and the National ICT R&D Fund, Ministry of Information …

The Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Government of Pakistan, H.E. Pir Aftab Hussain Shah Jilani, paid a visit to the COMSATS Secretariat on 20th January 2011. The Minister, who has recently assumed charge of the Ministry, was invited to COMSATS Secretariat for a briefing on the organization’s mission & objectives, the role it has been …

A four-member delegation of COMSATS participated in the 14th General Assembly Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH), held in Islamabad from 11-13 January 2011. As a Ministerial Standing Committee, all the 57 member states of the OIC are members of COMSTECH, out of which 12 are …

The Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. Imtinan Elahi Qureshi, was invited to visit Marmara Research Centre (MRC) in Istanbul (Turkey), which is one of the major R&D centres operated by TÜBİTAK – the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. The TÜBİTAK MRC has been affiliated with COMSATS as its Centre-of-Excellence since 1994. The visit was …

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)-Abbottabad organized the 8th Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT-2010) in Islamabad, on December 21–23, 2010. The event was organized in collaboration with IEEE’s Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan, Inter Islamic Network on Information Technology (INIT) …

The Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) in collaboration with one of its Centres of Excellence in Pakistan, the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), held the foundation meeting of COMSATS’ thematic research group on ‘Natural Product Sciences’, on November 26, 2010, in Karachi. ICCBS hosted this …