With profound pleasure and pride GNOBB wish to felicitate Professor Dr. Kamal Chowdhury for the two recent awards he has been honored with for the academic year 2011 – 2012. The two awards are:The James Hunter Award for Excellence in Teaching (Professor of the year) and the other Attorney William H and Annette B. Johnson Endowed Faculty Award for Innovative Scientific Research (Researcher of the year. GNOBB wish him God Speed and many more years of fruitful research career. It is worth mentioning that he used the facilities such as Laminar Flow given to him by ICDDR,B for isolation of jute protoplasts.