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  • Government College University Faisalabad
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  • Government College University, Allama Iqbal Road, Faisalabad Pakistan
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Zoology

Faculty Profile

Vision

To align multidisciplinary approaches towards wide areas of  biological sciences, the department strives to be a centre of excellence in teaching as well as in diverse areas of research to promote knowledge, skills and expertise in students required to serve the society as educators, University/College teachers, research scientists and administrators.

Mission

To meet the dire need of coming decades, the Department of Zoology is committed to impart most recent and updated education to students, to deliver society-oriented and need based research, to promote academia-industry linkage, to hold regular seminars by invited speakers and subject specialists for the scientific grooming of students and faculty and to develop a collaboration both at national and international levels.

Introduction

Department of Zoology was established in 1989 for the teaching of graduate and post graduate courses affiliated with University of the Punjab, Lahore, then took a mature turn after the up gradation of Govt. College Faisalabad as Govt. College University Faisalabad in 2002. Later on launching of MPhil, PhD and Honors programs added to its status and it has come forth as one of the academically sound Department of the country. The high profile motivated faculty loaded with initiative and drive is key strength of the Department. The fully equipped laboratories, well-furnished class rooms and updated spacious library provide the best possible facilities to the students in their academic pursuits. All the faculty members under the dynamic leadership of Prof. Dr. Salma Sultana are striving hard and exercising their potentials to the maximum extent focusing the activity based learning. University industry linkage program for the joint research ventures have been established. For this purpose the Department has established a linkage through signing MoUs with Newcastle University UK, WASA, Punjab Fisheries Department and University sains Malaysia an objective of sharing research facilities for educational and career development of the students coherent with professional requirements. The Department believes in its uplifting at world recognized level through imparting outstanding teaching and research by awarding degree in academic programs of BS, MSc, MPhil and PhD in Zoology. The department has recruited foreign qualified PhD faculty members to broaden the teaching and research horizon to face the modern challenges in the field of Life Sciences. Highly equipped labs of different fields such as Entomology, Paleontology, Tissue Culture, Fish nutrition, Biochemistry, Wildlife, Genetics, Molecular biology and Research lab have been established to extend its infrastructure. Department has successfully completed the research projects under JHELP-II and INSPIRE Program (British council-Higher Education Commission funded projects) and its two extension programs SPEKE and TNE. Moreover various other projects funded by Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF), Higher Education Commission NRPU, TWAS-COMSTECH, The Nagai Foundation Tokyo, Japan, ICPSR-Kingdom of Morocco and Punjab Higher Education Commission PIRCA are being conducting in the department. Department of Zoology is pioneer in eLearning during the pandemic of COVID-19 to facilitate the students.