Founded in 1993, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) is one of the oldest and leading private universities in Bangladesh where academic excellence is a tradition, teaching a passion and lifelong learning a habit. IUB currently has more than 9,800 undergraduate and graduate students and over 13,700 alumni. The students of IUB experience an exciting academic life with copious opportunities to explore and nurture their innate talent.
Live in Field Experience (LFE) is a signature course of IUB. It allows IUB students, most of whom come from urban settings, to have an immersive experience of everyday life in rural Bangladesh. Unique in Bangladesh, the overarching idea, which owes its roots to some of the leading social thinkers of this region, is to bridge the gap in knowledge that an urban student has about their rural counterparts. As part of the LFE, which is a mandatory course, small groups of students (usually 5-10, mix of male and female, and English and Bangla medium backgrounds) spend a certain amount of time at different locations in Bangladesh and experience life in the fields.
Free Female Hygiene Station Program Initiated by IUB’s STEM Community
10/05/2024
STEMcIUB introduced a free and easily accessible female hygiene product service at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) on April 2, 2023. STEM Community, IUB has been working to build a 'real-life problem solution' seeking mindset among students. Many of STEMc projects are being designed as 'Impact Projects' to have real-life use or as solutions to real-life problems. One of such projects of 'STEMc Impact Lab' is 'ShuchiMita/ শুচিমিতা' where STEMc has initiated station for free and easily accessible sanitary napkin station in the IUB girl’s common room. The service requires no purchase, registration, or mobile app. Students can easily collect the product when necessary with the help of the room in charge. An optional donation is introduced to keep the station sustainable and to benefit female IUb students. STMEc members Ashrafi Anjuman Sneha, Mohammad Nahid Al Islam, Sadiq Rahman Samin, Sanjida Saniha Rashid Soha, Tanfia Khan Disha who are currently enrolled as undergraduate students have designed and initiated the project. The project was supervised by Salman Khan Promon, Lecturer, Department of Life Sciences (DLS) and Atif M Safi, Head, Division of Student Activities (DoSA).