Professor Dr. M. Afzal Hossain, Advisor, Pundra University of Science and Technology, and Former Vice Chancellor, Hajee Mohammad Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, an apex seat of higher education in the Northern region of the country, has earned remarkable achievements as a dynamic academic executive, a devoted teacher and a distinguished scientist of international repute. As an ardent teacher and researcher in the field of biological sciences, he made brilliant contributions to the promotion of biochemical practices related to food and nutrition in Bangladesh. In parallel to it, he kept his endeavor unabated for uplifting our higher education to the world-standard with reflection in it the needs of the hour properly, and thus, to unleash the boundless potentials of youth-power by propagating the system rooted to life and livelihood.