Dr. Apurba Lal Ray
Department of Botany

Award of Dr. Apurba Lal Ray

Awards:

  1. 'Discovery and Innovation Award' under '2020 Excellence Awards' from Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland on 02 Dec 2020.
  2. 2nd place in the QAAFI Annual Research Meeting abstract competition under ‘Nutrition and Food Science’ category on 01 Dec 2020.

Scholarships:

  1. University of Queensland ‘Research Training Scholarship’ (Tuition fee scholarship, Living stipend scholarship, Overseas student health cover) for Doctor of Philosophy research on 01 Oct 2018.
  2. ‘Government General Merit Scholarship’ for outstanding performance in the B.Sc. (Honours) Examination of 2004 (held in 2006), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.   
  3. ‘Primary School Scholarship’, ‘Junior School Scholarship’ of Bangladesh Government.

 

Achievements:

  1. Supervised Master’s thesis project entitled “Assessment of phytoremediation potential of wild and EMS induced plants’ (2018).
  2. Achieved research project grant from Jagannath University, Bangladesh in 2017 to conduct research project on ‘Molecular genetic investigation of EMS induced Brassica juncea heavy metal hyperaccumulator genotypes’.
  3. 2nd prize for acquiring fair theoretical knowledge on teaching methodology and showing good performance in Instructional Ability Test (IAT) as a Lecturer in Botany of Rajuk Uttara Model College, Dhaka, 14 August 2011.
  4. Achieved prizes in reciting, speech and debating competitions during the studies at school, college and university respectively.

Life member of:

  1. Bangladesh Botanical Society (BBS), and
  2. Dhaka University Botany Alumni Association (DUBAA)