Dr Shahidur Rashid new VC of SAU

Dr Md Shahidur Rashid Bhuiyan has been appointed as vice-chancellor (VC) of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) for the next four years.

He has been a professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding Department of the university. He is appointed under section 10 (1) of the university act 2001, a gazette notification by the Secondary and Higher Education Division of the Education Ministry has confirmed the news.

Dr Shahidur was born in Belabo upazila of Narsingdi in 1956. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc. Ag.) on Agriculture in 1978 from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.

He, later, earned his Master of Science (Ag.) in Genetics and Plant Breeding from the same university in 1979.