Punjab University has awarded four Ph.D. degrees to the scholars in which Muhammad Awab us Sibtain S/o Munawar Abbas Qamar in the subject of Sociology after approval of his thesis entitled ‘Breaking the Glass Ceiling-Participation of Slum Dwellers in Higher Education’, Atiq-ur-Rehman S/o Maqbool Ahmad in the subject of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) after approval of his thesis entitled ‘Analytical and Biological Investigations of Extracts of Aerial Parts of Fagonia Indica Burm.f.’, Nafeesa Batool D/o Syed Mukhtar Hussain Shah in the subject of Zoology after approval of her thesis entitled ‘Biogas Production from Food Wastes and its Cyanobacterial Purification to Methane’ and Memoona Khan D/o Muhammad Khan in the subject of Botany after approval of her thesis entitled ‘A Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Study of Lichens from Some Areas of Pakistan’.