Dr. Fariha Tariq, Assistant Professor at Razia Hassan School of Architecture (SA), BNU presented a HEC sponsored paper, "Provision of Participatory Shelter Facilities in Adverse Environments: A case study of Lahore, Pakistan" at Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Sustainable Reconstruction Conference held at University of Massachusetts Boston, USA on 8-9 May, 2014. She also presented a poster presentation on the topic "Creating Inclusive Slum Design Through Architecture Intervention" at EDRA45 Building with Change, a conference organized by environmental design research association in New Orleans, USA from 28-30 May, 2014.