Highly Qualified, Supportive Tutor of Chemistry and Biology - Biology tutor with Samina

Thank you for your recent email and for your request for a reference for Dr. Samina Yasmin, who was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the School of Science and Engineering at Habib University in Karachi, Pakistan since July 2014.
Until recently I was the Dean of Research and Continuing Education at Habib University and a Member of the School of Science & Engineering, where I have been since December 2012. Prior to that I was Professor of Electronics in the Department of Engineering at Aberdeen University for 25 years.
Habib University is the first-of-its-kind liberal arts and Sciences University in Pakistan offering holistic, innovative and contextualized education. Habib University’s mission is to provide the highest quality of liberal and professional education, by creating and fostering a stimulating intellectual community built upon interactive dialogue and inquiry among students, faculty and staff. Habib University has formed multifaceted partnerships with leading North American universities – Carnegie Mellon University and Texas A&M University.
Samina has made an outstanding contribution to the teaching of Chemistry during her time at Habib University. She has become a very popular Professor, actively engaging with the students and encouraging them as well as sharing her passion and enthusiasm for her subject. She has become energetically involved in extra-curricular student activities, clubs and societies as well as contributing to the general student well-being, through her role as a student advisor.

Her contributions to the development of the curriculum have been innovative and exciting and she has brought a very dynamic dimension to the teaching of chemistry – both in the classroom and the laboratories.
As a new University, there has inevitably been a significant amount of administrative and organizational work to be undertaken and Samina has demonstrated a real talent for quickly ‘sizing up’ a problem and rapidly ‘getting to grips’ with the situation.
Samina is well liked by her faculty colleagues and works well with them, demonstrating a talent for team working and collaborative cooperation and she has a good sense of humour.
At Habib University, we are actively involved in promoting undergraduate research as a means of supplementing the classroom experience and linking students with faculty research projects. Samina has been an enthusiastic proponent of this approach to learning and has acted as a role model for her colleagues.

She joined Habib University in July 2014 and left at the end of December 2017 for personal family reasons.

Yours sincerely,

Professor C.T.Spracklen, F.Inst.P, C.Phys.

Dr. Samina is a very professional and hardworking tutor. She taught my girl GCSE Chemistry and she has scored very high grades. She improved a whole grade with her dedicated and tireless efforts. I am very happy with her and will highly recommend her to others.