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Ned Bertz (right) with Urmila Jhaveri, who participated in the Tanzanian freedom struggle for independence
A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa associate professor in the Department of History has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. Beginning in fall 2021,
Ned Bertz will utilize the highly competitive academic fellowship to conduct research on the project, “Decolonization and Transnational Politics in Tanzania from Liberation to Liberalization, 1945–1979.”
“I’m very excited to have a long stretch of fieldwork ahead and am proud to be representing the University of Hawaiʻi while abroad,” Bertz said. “It’s very nostalgic for me because two decades ago, as a graduate student, I received a Fulbright fellowship to research my
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February 04, 2021 11:31 IST
Ball Method, was the only pain-free treatment for leprosy available for over thirty years until sulfone drugs were introduced
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Ball Method, was the only pain-free treatment for leprosy available for over thirty years until sulfone drugs were introduced
Alice Augusta Ball (1892–1916) was an African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract, the first successful treatment for leprosy. It was used until the 1940s. However, she did not get credit for her discovery for nearly 90 years. Some attribute this to gender and racial discrimination.
Ball was born in 1892, in Washington, to James Presley, a newspaper editor, and Laura Louise, a photographer. After graduating from Seattle High School in 1910, Ball earned her bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of Washington, and her master’s degree from the College of Hawaii (now known as the University of Hawaii), in 1915. Alice Ball was
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