Agriculture in Pakistan is significantly affected by short-term climate variability and longer-term climate change. Periods of severe droughts, followed by devastating floods are common in the country and have contributed to low crop yields, loss of livestock, damage to irrigation infrastructure and food shortages. According to the Climate change Index, droughts will increase in winter affecting the yield of cash harvests. Meanwhile, increase in precipitation in the summer season may cause floods throughout different areas of Pakistan. In this regard, KAM-School of Life Sciences in collaboration with ORIC organized this International Conference at Forman Christian College University Lahore on 6th [...]

The two-day event on synopsis poster presentations was conducted by the Department of Psychology held on the 7th and 9th of December 2022. Majoring BS and MS Psychology students presented their synopsis posters to guests, faculty of Psychology, and students. The faculty of Psychology reviewed gave feedback and evaluated students' work. The event was graced by FCCU’s Rector Dr. Jonathan Addleton and his wife.

On Saturday 26 November 2022, 897 Bachelors (Hons), 248 Postgraduate, and 1 PhD student graduated in various disciplines from Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) during a ceremony attended by dignitaries, FCCU faculty, staff, and the parents and families of the graduates. Governor of Punjab Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman was the chief guest for the occasion. The Baccalaureate (Hons) valedictory speech was given by Ms. Aima Kashif who graduated with a CGPA of 4.000. The Postgraduate valedictory speeches were given by Ms. Rabia Idrees and Ms. Rabia Latif. 31 named medals and 15 Postgraduate medals were awarded to students for achievements in their [...]

Assistant Professor of Mass Communication, Syed Muhammad Saqib, being a member of Global MediaClimate Network, was invited to attend and speak at the 4th Cairo Media Conference held at the American University in Cairo, Egypt from 23 to 24 October 2022. The conference was co-organized by the American University in Cairo, Egypt and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. This fourth edition of the Cairo media conference was focused on, “Communicating Climate Change: Is the Climate Crisis also a Communication Crisis?”. Mr Saqib shed light on the climate crisis situation of Pakistan and shared stats on the climate literacy among the public [...]

The Department of Environmental Sciences, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), hosted a two-day workshop on 9th and 10th November, 2022 at FCCU for its recent project entitled “Scientific and sustainable application of groundwater treatment technology for safe drinking water supply in Punjab, Pakistan”. This project is funded by the Government of Korea under Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the Government of Pakistan through Economic Affairs Division and Ministry of Science and Technology, Pakistan. This project received a funding of 1.2 million USD for a period of three years from Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and Korean Intellectual [...]

The Faculty of Humanities, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), in collaboration with the department of Journalism and Media Studies (JMIC), Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway, hosted a three day workshop on “Peace Journalism” on the topic of “Surviving the social media onslaught: Mainstream journalism, peace, and democracy in the transitional societies.” The event included academics, students, and expert journalists, plus representatives from over 40 top-tier national and international universities attended the workshop. Anne Hege Simonsen, the head of department of journalism and media studies at oslomet, Muhammad Feyyaz, Khalid Khattak, multimedia journalist and Founder at Data Stories, and many [...]

The 19th Annual Faculty Retreat of Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), took place 5-9 Sep 2022,  as is the yearly practice before the Fall semester, with around 250+ university faculty members.  The event was conducted in a hybrid mode. The full day of  Sep 5 and workshops spread over the next 4 days were in-person, but the experts invited from different parts of the world to deliver the plenary address on themes of significance did so over Zoom.  The purposes of the event were to imbibe in our faculty a shared sense of purpose and commitment and to harness [...]

Students of Department of Mass Communication at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) ran one-month long social marketing campaigns supervised by Assistant Professor of Mass Communication, Mr. Syed Muhammad Saqib Saleem in Spring 2022 as part of their course MCOM 415 (Communication Campaign Design). The campaigns involved community engagement and were based on some of the Sustainable Development Goals by the UN designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The campaigns focused on various social issues such as climate change, saving water, women empowerment, [...]