The Aga Khan University (AKU) held its 38th convocation on Saturday, awarding degrees to 461 students in 18 programmes. The ceremony saw Princess Zahra Aga Khan being formally installed as the university’s first pro-chancellor. In her remarks, she said, “The university’s geographic expansion has seen the AKU’s presence expand across Pakistan, into more cities and villages than ever before. From Karachi to Matiari, from Lahore to Gilgit, the university’s healthcare professionals, educators, and researchers are part of the fabric of people’s lives.” In his message, AKU’s Chancellor Prince Rahim Aga Khan noted that the university and its graduates carried “both an extraordinary responsibility and an extraordinary opportunity: to create, to disseminate, and to apply knowledge in ways that improve the quality of human life.”