University of Baghdad has harvested many scientific awards during the annual celebration of the Iraqi Science Day held under the banner “With science and scientists we defeat terrorism” sponsored by the department of research and development of the ministry of higher education and scientific research and attended by the minister of higher education and scientific research, Prof. Dr. Abdul Razaq Al-Issa and director general of department of research and development and a great academic gathering. This event comes within the ministry’s quest to adopt scientific and academic sobriety as the foundation of any progress to promote and deepen the concepts of excellence through the choice of the most distinguished figures in universities, bodies, centers, research units, advisory offices and the outstanding sober journals. Selected professors of University of Baghdad were honored as well as a number of retired professors for their distinguished achievements in society to instill the spirit of innovation and competition among the teaching staff, researchers and students. The attendants praised the role of University of Baghdad and its rector Prof. Dr. Alaa Abdul Hussein in supporting the academic energies for the sake of the scientific process in Iraq.