Punjab University teacher gets American Fisheries Award 2016

Lahore: Punjab University Dean Faculty of Life Sciences, Professor of Zoology and former Registrar Prof. Dr. Muhammad Naeem Khan has been awarded the International Professional Travel Award-2016 by the American Fisheries Society, USA.

According to the reports reaching from USA, Dr. Khan has been invited as an International Guest Speaker to attend the 41st Annual Conference of the American Fisheries Society held at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, USA, where he presented his award winning scholarly research paper entitled “Professional development in fisheries: A case study of global mentoring opportunities for young researchers”.

This is 6th international award won by Dr. Naeem Khan in a row during the last two years.  Previously, he won EU Erasmus Mundus Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Zagreb, Croatia (2015-16); FAO Global Fisheries Travel Award for Rome, Italy (2015), Norwegian Fisheries Award for Trondheim, Norway (2014); American Fisheries Society Travel Award for Mazatlán, Mexico (2014) and the World Aquaculture Society Travel Award for Adelaide, Australia (2014).