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Atia Azohnwi Bamnjo Herman Yenika, Ph.D., has made history at the University of Bamenda, defending the first-ever doctorate thesis at the varsity’s Faculty of Law and Political Science. The Ph.D. thesis on the topic: "Regional Integration Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution: A Comparative Study of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)" was defended Friday, June 25, 2021 , in Amphitheater 340 of the University...

Eleven members of the Class of 2021 who have distinguished themselves for academic excellence, service and leadership at East Tennessee State University have been inducted into the 1911 Society. Named in commemoration of the year when ETSU was founded, the 1911 Society recognizes the university’s most notable graduates from undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. The selection committee evaluates applicants on academic achievement; sustained service; honors, awards, recognitions...

One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed to exceed those among enslaved blacks in the south by an 11-to-one ratio. South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, a notoriously strident defender of slavery, seized...

Webinar: ‘Landscape and Poetry by Professor Ben Bollig Landscape and Poetry by Professor Ben Bollig The Centre for the Comparative Study of Portugal, Spain and the Americas (CEPSAM) invites you to join a new seminar series organised by current postgraduate students at Swansea University. This will be the third session in this seminar series: Landscape and Poetry in Gerardo ‘Papu’ Curotto and Andi Nachon’s Esteros by Professor Ben Bollig (St Catherines College, University of Oxford). ...

Course Description The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs) envisages a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity; a world which invests in its children and in which every child grows up free from violence and exploitation; a world in which every woman and girl enjoys full gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed. A just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world in which, the needs of the most ...

corporate news Published on 29 Apr 2021 Share this The team members of CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study (GCS) on REDD+ regret the recent loss of Dr. David Solis Chávez (1978-2021), who made important contributions to the project during and after his time as a Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University. Born in Huanuco, Peru, David earned his Ph.D. in Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University in 2017 and went on to serve as a professor at the University of ...

Associate Professor Qualifications 1999    M.Sc., Fibre and Optical Physics, Mansoura University, Egypt 1993    B.Sc., Physics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Egypt Publications Hamza, T. Z. N. Sokkar, K. A. El-Farahaty and H. M. El-Dessouky, Comparative Study on Interferometric Techniques for Measurement of Optical Properties of a fibre, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 1 (1999) 41. Hamza, T. Z. N. Sokkar, K. A. El-Farahaty and H. M. El-Dessouky, Influen...

BOZEMAN — Graduate students from Montana State University will give the public a chance to hear their 80,000-word thesis projects presented in only 180 seconds each this afternoon from 3-4:30 p.m. MSU’s Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering will host the seventh annual Three Minute Thesis event in a hybrid in-person/virtual format due to COVID-19 precautions. Presenters, judges and limited guests will gather in the Montana Room in Norm Asbjornson Hall, while a livestream will be availab...

October 4, 1880 Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis is born in Lynchburg to John Henry Lewis and Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis. 1901 1903—1904 1907 Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis earns a doctorate in economics from the University of Berlin for her dissertation, A Contribution toward the Development of the Cotton Industry in the South of U.S.A. 1910s 1910 Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis prepares a report, The Beginnings of Child Labor Legislation in Certain States: A Comparati...

Study finds Israel early on offered better social policies, income support to its struggling households than U.S. March 9, 2021 SHARE The pandemic is exacerbating preexisting social and economic inequalities in the United States and abroad, finds a new study from the Social Policy Institute (SPI) at Washington University in St. Louis. The study, “Household Spending Patterns and Hardships during COVID-19: A Comparative Study of the U.S. and Israel,” draws on national surveys conducted e...