Ilesanmi, Abayomi, 6 others become fellows of Nigerian Academy of Letters
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By Olasunkanmi Akoni
The Nigerian Academy of Letters has admitted eight new members into its College of Fellows for 2020.
This was contained in a release by the secretary of the Academy, Prof. Ayobami Kehinde, in Abuja, on Thursday.
The statement stated that the new fellows were selected based on their contributions to knowledge in their respective fields of specialisation.
“It is with great delight to announce that eight of the members of the Nigerian Academy of Letters have been admitted into the College of Fellows of the Academy (the YEAR 2020). This followed their elections on Thursday, 21 January 2021, in recognition of the contributions they have made to knowledge in their various fields of specialization,” the statement reads.
PAS to award scientists contributing extraordinarily
Islamabad
January 19, 2021
Islamabad:Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) has announced to confer ‘Gold Medals and Awards 2021’ upon the Pakistani scientists who have made outstanding contributions in scientific research.
The PAS has invited the nominations from the Pakistani scientists in different disciplines for their selection for the prestigious awards which were being given with an objective to acknowledge their contributions to society.
According to an official of the academy, PAS gold medals will be awarded in various disciplines including Agriculture Sciences, including Veterinary Sciences and Forestry; Biological Science, including Botany, Zoology, Microbiology and Bio-Chemistry; Chemical Sciences including Pharmaceutical Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences and Emerging Technologies, including Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics.
EMS World is a silver-level strategic partner of the NAEMSP meeting.
Outgoing president David Tan, MD, FAEMS, began the closing session by thanking outgoing board members and committee members, and introducing the newest Fellows of the Academy of EMS (with congratulatory message from actor Chuck Norris).
Accolades
Professional awards (and additional celebrity accolades) highlighted during the session included:
NAEMSP/Stryker Fellowship Award: Michael Lauria, MD, NRP, emergency medicine resident and flight physician for Lifeguard Air Emergency Services, Albuquerque, New Mexico;
President’s Award: Toni Gross, MD, chief of emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital New Orleans, and Ryan Jacobsen, MD, FAEMS, FACEP, associate professor at University of Kansas Medical Center;
by Victoria Hodge
December 18, 2020
Growing up, I was used to being the “only one.” I was the only Black girl in many of my elementary school classrooms, newspaper staff, debate team, and even in college lectures at the University of Virginia. That anxious feeling of being surrounded by faces that were not like my own was a familiar one.
Victoria Hodge working on a project during her summer internship at Student Reporting Labs.
As an aspiring journalist, I expect I will often be the “only one” in the workplace. While 38% of newsrooms have made diversity gains in the last 15 years, many publications are still lacking in overall diversity. According to this 2018 Pew Research Center study, “newsroom employees are more likely to be white and male than U.S. workers overall.” My worries about feeling underrepresented are not unfounded.