Dr. Shakir Mahmoud Saeed, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Laboratory Techniques at Al-Noor University College, chaired a discussion committee for the postgraduate student for the M.A. degree, Zina Khaled Yahya Younis, about her thesis in Organic Chemistry that she submitted to the Department of Chemistry at the College of Science at University of Mosul under the title (Construction of Some Derivatives: The new bi-chalcones containing the unit 2,6-dimethyl-4,1-dihydropyridine). Dr. Shakir Mahmoud received a certificate of appreciation presented to him at the end of the discussion by the Dean of the College of Science at University of Mosul.