JU set to launch second largest science lab

Jahangirnagar University (JU) is set to launch the country's second largest science laboratory, funded jointly by World Bank (WB) and the government of Bangladesh soon, official sources said.
The university had no full-fledged laboratory since its inception in 1971.
"We are waiting to open up the lab for the students and scholars in the next one month," Dr Ali Azam, acting director of the lab, told the FE.
Dr Azam, said the required equipment and machinery for the lab were procured from Japan, the USA and Germany.
Mr Azam said, "We've already procured lab equipment worth about Tk 100 million and others are in the pipeline."
The lab is now the final stage of procuring nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), used especially in spectroscopic studies of molecular structure and in medicine to measure rates of metabolism.
After installation of the equipment, this will be the second largest laboratory, which has been named after late nuclear scientist Dr Wazed Miah, in the country after the University Grants Commission (UGC) set up the first one at Agargaon in Dhaka.
The JU authorities took a decision to set up the lab in a syndicate meeting in 2009.