Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) as well as 28 other bodies under the umbrella of the Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (APBN) have called for more patronage of indigenous professionals.
Jason McLellan in his lab on January 18, 2021.
Credit: Matt Wright-Steel
On January 6, 2020, Jason McLellan and his wife, Jinelle, were in Park City, Utah, for their family’s first-ever snowboarding vacation. It was a chance for the couple and their two young kids to relax after the holidays and before the spring semester kicked off at UT, when McLellan would begin his second year as an associate professor in molecular biosciences.
McLellan’s new snowboarding boots were pinching him, so he stopped at a shop to get them heat-molded to his feet. While he waited, McLellan saw Barney Graham’s name flash across his phone. The pair had first met in 2008 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where Graham is deputy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Vaccine Research Center, and McLellan was conducting his postdoctoral research in structure-based vaccine design after receiving his PhD from Johns Hopkins.
CONFIRMED! FG working on policy towards 5G deployment
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By Emmanuel Elebeke
Nigeria may soon join other forward-thinking nations of the world to deploy the fifth Generation, 5G network services in the country.
This is as the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, at the weekend revealed that government is putting finishing touches to the policy that will allow 5G services to be deployed in the country.
The minister, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, also debunked claims that deployment of technology in Nigeria, will come with health implications. He said that there is no known scientific evidence till date, suggesting that 5G poses any risks to public health and safety.
Image from a Department of Justice website.
On Jan. 14, with less than a week to go in the Trump administration, federal agents arrested a prominent mechanical engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gang Chen.
Chen, prosecutors alleged, failed to disclose on a federal grant application various financial ties and affiliations with Chinese entities, including his participation in Chinese government talent programs and his service as an expert scientific consultant to the Chinese government omissions, or in federal prosecutors’ view, deliberate concealments that amounted to a scheme to defraud the federal government out of competitive grant funding that might not have been awarded to Chen had his ties to China been fully disclosed.