Health and Safety at Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS: Smoking Policy The Office of Student Affairs (OSA), in line with LUMS health and safety policies has devised a smoking policy. As part of the University’s commitment to the health, comfort and safety of all members of its community while respecting individual choice, the following [...]

Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Seeks a Dean for its New Law School Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) invites nominations and applications for the founding Dean of its new School of Law, to be named the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law. LUMS was established in 1985 as a not-for-profit university and has since become [...]

SBASSE Physics Seminar on Computational Materials (Date: May 16, 2013) - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Department of Physics presents Computational Design of Functional Materials: Energy Storage and Conversion, Alternative Fuel and Nanotechnology Speaker: Dr. Altaf Karim Date: May 16, 2013 Venue: SSE Building, 3rd Floor, Room 10-304, SBASSE, LUMS Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm ABOUT THE SEMINAR In today’s [...]

LUMS Econ Graduate Accepts Gates Cambridge Scholarship Hassan Goreja, a LUMS MSc Economics 2010 graduate, has accepted the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship 2013. Since the inception of the scholarship in 2001, Hassan is the 5th Gates Scholar from LUMS. Hassan also had offers and full scholarships from University of Edinburgh, University of Cambridge and University [...]

Interloop Limited Provides Support to the NOP -  Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Interloop Limited and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) signed an agreement on May 13, 2013, whereby Interloop has established an endowment to support upto four students in the LUMS National Outreach Programme (NOP). The established endowment, worth Rs. 30 Million, has [...]

No to Plagiarism. No to Cheating - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS In an email to the students, the Vice Chancellor of the Lahore Univeristy of Management Sciences (LUMS), Prof. Adil Najam, highlighted the importance of integrity as a core LUMS value and implored the student body to “assist the University in demonstrating that we [...]

Dr. Qazilbash Speaks at International Judicial Conference - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Dr. Ali Qazilbash, faculty at the Law and Policy Department, LUMS was invited to speak at the International Judicial Conference, 2013, organised by the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan and hosted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The purpose of the [...]

Punjab Mathematical Society Elects Dr. Bhatti as the VP - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Dr. Faqir Bhatti of Centre for Advanced Studies in Mathematics(CASM) at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE), LUMS has been elected as the Vice President of the Punjab Mathematical Society for the term 2013-2015. The Punjab [...]

LUMS Students Win Case Simulation Competition at FAST - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS LUMS team named “LUMS-Sharks” won the Case Simulation Competition organised by the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES – FAST), Islamabad. The winning team comprising of four LUMS students – Bilal Asim (MBA 2013), Muneeb Khadim (MBA 2014), Saba [...]

BS Math Major Accepted to Prestigious US Actuary Program - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Romana Sohail, BS Mathematics major from the class of 2013, has been offered a position in the Cigna Actuarial Executive Development Program in the Philadelphia office, United States. This program is highly competitive and her colleagues will include graduates from [...]

Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Pro Chancellor Meets Former MIT President The Pro-Chancellor of the Lahore Univeristy of Management Sciences (LUMS), Syed Babar Ali, met Dr. Charles (Chuck) Vest, former President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and currently President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington, DC, USA. Dr. Vest [...]

Sardar Karim of LUMS NOP Receives Two Scholarships - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Sardar Karim, LUMS National Outreach Programme (NOP) scholar (BS 2010) – who also went on two exchange programmes during his stay at LUMS – has been offered Fulbright Scholarship for 2013-14. This makes him the 14th NOP scholar to have earned [...]

Campus Conversation Panelists Stress on Individuality - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS LUMS Career Services Office (CSO) organised ‘Campus Conversation 2013’ at LUMS, a forum where experts from the industry talked to the students and shared their experiences. The speakers included Shahzad Khan, Country Manager, Dell; Asher Faisel Khan, CEO, Commtel Systems; Shoaib Khalil, Marketing [...]

Tilburg University Invites Dr. Khan as Thesis Examiner - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Dr. Abdul Karim Khan, Assistant Professor at the Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB), LUMS was invited by the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Netherlands as an external examiner for a PhD thesis titled “Antecedents and outcomes of [...]

LUMS Biology Graduate to Join Pitt-CMU MBSB Programme - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Hajira Ahmed Hotiana, a Biology major from the class of 2012 has been offered a fully-funded position at a joint graduate programme by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Melon University in Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology. Ms Hotiana has maintained [...]

Unpacking the F Word: Why We Need Feminism - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS LUMS presents a workshop titled Unpacking the F Word: Why We Need Feminism Date: April 25, 2013 Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm Venue: A16, Academic Block, LUMS SPEAKERS Dr. Nida Kirmani She completed her PhD in Sociology in 2007 from the University of Manchester. [...]

Elixir Securities Recruitment Drive Held at Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Elixir Securities conducted a recruitment drive for their Management Trainee Programme at LUMS on April 23, 2013. Elixir Securities, a Dawood Group Company, is a full range financial service firm that, in addition to in-depth research and analysis, offers investment services like Equity Brokerage, [...]

Dr. Karrar to Speak at LUMS HSS: Why is This so Great? (Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013) - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS LUMS Department of Humanities and Social Sciences presents another “Why is This so Great?” session: “The Solitude of Latin America”: Some notes on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Speaker: Dr. Hasan Karrar, [...]

LUMS-PICG Seminar on Effectiveness of Corporate Governance - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance (PICG) jointly organised a seminar on ‘Effectiveness of Corporate Governance’ on April 23, 2013 at LUMS. The daylong seminar began with networking tea. Then, LUMS Vice Chancellor, Dr. Adil Najam, [...]

LUMS Physics Department Courseware Goes Online The Department of Physics at LUMS has put up most of its academic information online. The laboratory courses of the Department have been online for the last three years, including blueprints of experiments, software, sample results, pictorial procedures and instructor manuals. Taking a step further, the Department has put [...]

Lab Assistants & Managerial Staff Given First Aid Info - Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS LUMS Emergency Medical Services continuing with its purpose of imparting first-aid knowledge to ‘one and all’ conducted its 4th and 5th workshop on Tuesday April 16, 2013 and Friday April, 19, 2013 for biology lab instructors and managerial staff at [...]

3 LUMS Students Qualify for Exchange Programme in Japan Three bright students from the LUMS undergraduate programme have qualified for an exchange semester with the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan under the LUMS-Waseda Student Exchange Programme. This year the application process was very competitive; sixty two applications were competing for the [...]

Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS Discussed at International Higher Ed Conference The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) was one of the over 450 leading international universities present at the 4th International Exhibition and Conference on Higher Education (IECHE) held at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and one of around only 20 global universities whose activities were [...]