Wednesday, May 9, 2012

MSB Alumni News "Life-changing experience: Student wins Bangladeshi scholarship"


KU student wins Bangladesh scholarship

Business Recorder LogoMurtaza Quaid Kanchwala, a third-year architecture student of the Department of Visual Studies, University of Karachi, has been selected to receive the `Rafique Azam Travelling Scholarship 2012' organized by Atelier Pakistan.
A Karachi University spokesperson said on Monday that the students of the four institutions of higher learning of Karachi offering degrees in architecture- University of Karachi, NED University, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, and Dawood University, were invited to submit their portfolios.
Three short listed students including Murtaza Quaid Kanchwala, a third-year architecture student at the Department of Visual Studies, University of Karachi, were invited to speak briefly about their portfolios at the Atelier event at T2F, where Murtaza Quaid Kanchwala was awarded the scholarship.
The travel scholarship was set up by the award winning Bangladeshi architect, Rafique Azam.

The scholarship enables one student to visit Bangladesh for one week and intern at Rafique Azam's office in June 2012.

The scholarship provides the return airfare from Karachi to Dhaka, as well as all boarding and lodging expenses for the duration of the stay in Bangladesh.