It speaks of IISc Bangalore's global repute and eminent scholars that it was ranked above famed global institutes like Princeton and Harvard universities in terms of research.
A female diversity officer has quit after only seven months in the role at a top £17,000-a-year private school.
Andreia Borges de Lima handed in her notice at The Norwich School, which is currently advertising her replacement, to pursue an interest in the church .
The school was last year accused of widespread racist abuse in a letter signed by 250 students.
Ms de Lima was brought into the role in September to oversee the school s response after a range of experiences of racism were shared by more than 20 pupils.
These included incidents of anti-Semitic jokes and one student waving a Swastika, with allegations ranging from micro-aggressions including a black pupil being told to wear beige tights, to racial abuse.
University of Toronto professors elected to the U.K. s Royal Society May 7, 2021
Two University of Toronto professors have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society – the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences.
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Julie Forman-Kay of the department of biochemistry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Professor
Jeremy Quatsel of the department of mathematics in the Faculty of Arts & Science are among the 60 scientists named this year as Fellows, Foreign Members or Honorary Fellows.
“The global pandemic has demonstrated the continuing importance of scientific thinking and collaboration across borders,” Sir Adam Smith, president of the society, said in a statement. “Each Fellow and Foreign Member bring their area of scientific expertise to the Royal Society and when combined, this expertise supports the use of science for the benefit of humanity.”
Cambridge experts elected fellows of Royal Society
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Sadaf Farooqi, Usha Goswami among 60 outstanding scientists chosen for honour.
Two experts based at the University of Cambridge – Sadaf Farooqi and Usha Goswami – are among 60 outstanding scientists elected Fellows of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence with origins in the 17th century.
Sadaf Farooqi, professor of metabolism and medicine, and Usha Goswami, professor of cognitive developmental neuroscience, join the ranks of Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Dorothy Hodgkin who enriched the society with their expertise.
Farooqi is known for her discoveries of fundamental mechanisms that control human energy homeostasis and their disruption in obesity. She discovered that the leptin-melanocortin system regulates appetite and weight in people and that genetic mutations affecting