ICTP Senior Associate Ghulam Murtaza has been named the first Salam Professor of Physics at Government College in Lahore, Pakistan. The chair was established by the government of Pakistan to honour the memory of ICTP founder and Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam. Murtaza, who was a pupil of Salam at Imperial College in London, recently wrote to the Centre to say that the "Salam Chair is an honour and at the same time a challenge. I hope I will be able to come up to it. And of course I shall need strong support from various quarters, particularly from the Abdus Salam ICTP."