Dr Chao Mbogho is a multi-award-winning researcher, educator, and mentor in Computer Science. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Oxford, and a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Kenya Methodist University. She has earned over twenty recognitions, fellowships, and awards for her work in research, education, and mentorship. For example, she was the first Kenyan to win the 2020 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award in Engineering, Innovation, and Technology, was also named as one of the 2017 Quartz Africa Innovators, was selected as a 2017 Techwomen Fellow, was awarded a Leadership ‘Zuri’ award for her positive contribution to the Kenyan community in 2018, and was also named as one of the 2018 Faces of Science in Kenya. In 2019, Dr. Chao was recognized by Okay! Africa as one of the women of African descent who are making a positive and impactful contribution to the youth in their communities.
Ramu Damodaran is Chief, United Nations Academic Impact
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 2021 (IPS) - Legends are the lodestars of history, the marriage of Sir Dorabji Tata with Meherbai on Valentine’s Day of 1898 among the most lyrical of them. Two years later, he gifted her the Jubilee Diamond, the sixth largest diamond in the world, twice as large as the Kohinoor.
Less than fifty months later, Tata Steel, the business in which he played so pivotal a role, was enveloped in a financial crisis; Dorabji and Meherbai pledged the whole of their wealth, including the Diamond, to the Imperial Bank, to make it possible for wages to be paid and not a job sacrificed.
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‘Gravity new way to discover universe’
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February 12, 2021
LAHORE: Prof Nergis Mavalvala, the Pakistani-American Professor of Physics and Dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) gave the keynote at the Afkar-e-Taza ThinkFest Online 2021 on Thursday evening.
According to a press release, she spoke on “Opening a New Window into the Universe,” in conversation with Prof Pervez Hoodbhoy. In an extremely engaging talk, Prof Mavalvala, discussed her path breaking work on gravitational waves where members of her team won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics. She noted: “The old way of looking into the universe was light, but now we can use gravity to learn more about the universe.
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February 12, 2021
LAHORE: Prof Nergis Mavalvala, the Pakistani-American Professor of Physics and Dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) gave the keynote at the Afkar-e-Taza ThinkFest Online 2021 on Thursday evening.
According to a press release, she spoke on “Opening a New Window into the Universe,” in conversation with Prof Pervez Hoodbhoy. In an extremely engaging talk, Prof Mavalvala, discussed her path breaking work on gravitational waves where members of her team won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics. She noted: “The old way of looking into the universe was light, but now we can use gravity to learn more about the universe.