David Olufemi Olaleye: erudite virologist, excellent mentor and academic giant: David Olufemi Olaleye Courtesy African Digital Health Library David Olufemi Olaleye, who passed away in July, made an impact on many lives. He was an excellent teacher and mentor – like a father to many. A defender of the oppressed and a forthright person, who …
Chile: election of progressive indigenous academic to oversee constitutional reform is a blow to right-wing establishment: An indigenous academic will head up Chile’s newly formed constitutional convention, sending shock waves through Chile’s conservative right-wing establishment. Elisa Loncon was voted in by delegates on July 4 after an election on May 17 returned a large majority …
Remembering Tania Douglas: a brilliant biomedical engineer, academic and friend: Professor Tania Douglas is warmly remembered as an excellent scientist and a remarkable human being. Je'nine May/UCT Health Sciences Tributes from friends, colleagues, collaborators and students have poured in for South African academic Professor Tania Samantha Douglas, an internationally recognised scholar, biomedical engineer and innovator. …
Preprints: how draft academic papers have become essential in the fight against COVID: Svitlana Hulko/Shutterstock Since the first reported case of COVID-19, cities across the world have shut down, people have stopped socialising and going to work, economies have taken a hit and there have been far too many deaths. But at the same time …
Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe: academic mentor and researcher who made an impact in Nigerian science: Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe Courtesy The Nigerian Academy of Science Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, who passed away earlier this year, was the former president of the Nigeria Academy of Science. He was also a former vice-chancellor of both the University of Lagos and of Alex Ekwueme …
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Why students need to learn academic words: Jeanette Virginia Goh/Shutterstock Method, analyse, conversely. These words are more useful than you think. These and other “academic” words are used in writing and speech at school and other educational settings without being specific to any discipline. They can be used, among other things, to describe research (method, …
Prof Sir Paul Curran Award for Excellence in Academic Journalism 2020 goes to Connor Bamford: Dr Connor Bamford, a Wellcome Research Fellow in virology and antiviral immunity. Years after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, will we look back and recall where we were when we first considered a virus that was claiming lives and terrifying …
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Coronavirus vaccine: what we know so far – a comprehensive guide by academic experts: M-Foto/Shutterstock Since the early days of the pandemic, attention has focused on producing a vaccine for COVID-19. With one, it’s hoped it will be able to suppress the virus without relying purely on economically challenging control measures. Without one, the world …
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Leveraging Latin American Cultural & Linguistic Diversity for Academic Achievement – a Culture interest event taking place on 2020-09-24 18:00:00 in United States Teachers and educators: discover how to better understand and successfully address the diversity within diversity that students from Latin America bring to your class with ILAS’s K-12 Outreach Program’s 2020 guide. We …
Academic freedom is sacrosanct. But so is ethical responsibility: shutterstock In 1990 CODESRIA, Africa’s premier social science council, organised a conference in Kampala, Uganda, on academic freedom. The conference was against the backdrop of mounting harassment of academics on the continent. They were subjected to travel restrictions in some countries, arrest, detention, and sometimes even …
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn’s final election debate: academic experts on their claims: Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, have gone head-to-head in the final live television debate before the UK votes on December 12. They were set a series of tricky questions by a live studio …
Academic freedom is under threat around the world – here’s how to defend it: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. shutterstock/Piotr Wawrzyniuk This article is part of a series on academic freedom where leading academics from around the world write on the state of free speech and inquiry in their region. Academic freedom is at the heart …
How to open source your academic work in 7 steps: Academic work fits nicely into the open source ethos: The higher the value of what you give away, the greater your academic prestige and earnings. Professors accomplish this by sharing their best ideas for free in journal articles in peer-reviewed literature. This is our currency, …