scholarly journals Foreword

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
Don Melrose
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Australian Research Council ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

A workshop on 'Star Formation in Different Environments' was held at the University of Sydney in October 1991. The workshop was sponsored by the Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, which was set up in 1991 as a Special Research Centre of the Australian Research Council, with the primary objective of fostering theoretical astrophysics in Australia. The major part of the initial organisation of the workshop was carried out by Geoff Bicknell, who was co-opted to the Research Centre for several months from Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories. About fifty astrophysicists took part, including three distinguished overseas visitors, Leon Mestel, Colin Norman and Joe Silk, who took leading roles in the scientific discussions.

The First Women’s Studies Research Centre: A History of Women’s Studies and Its Progenitors

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-233
Author(s):  
Maithreyi Krishnaraj
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

The beginning of Women’s Studies has a special history in India. It owes its origin not only to some stalwarts but also to the historical times in which its birth took place. Its location in the SNDT Women’s University in Mumbai was at the initiative of Dr Neera Desai, a Professor of Sociology at that university. Her own work on women’s issues in her Master’s thesis and her involvement in the women’s movement gave her the background for envisaging that a women’s university should engage with analysis of women’s condition and not just teach women other academic disciplines. It was with this motive, that the Research Centre for Women’s Studies was set up in 1974, a year before the publication of the report Towards Equality of the Government of India. The university - originally begun at the initiative of the educationist Shri Dhondo Kheshav Karve received a handsome grant from the industrialist Shri Damodar Thackersey and got named after his mother Shrimathi Nathibai Damodar Thackersey hereafter SNDT Women’s University. The Centre with the involvement of able and farsighted administrators at this university spearheaded the development of this Centre, which became the torch bearer for raising women’s issues.

scholarly journals Centre for Green Chemistry, Monash University, Australia

2001 ◽  
Vol 73 (8) ◽  
pp. 1251-1255
Author(s):  
Janet L. Scott ◽  
Colin L. Raston ◽  
Christopher R. Strauss ◽  
W. Roy Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Green Chemistry ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Chemical Technology ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Australian Research Council ◽  
Scientific Base

The Centre for Green Chemistry is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Special Research Centre (SRC), located at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. SRCs are funded by the Australian federal government, via the vehicle of the ARC, with the express goal of supporting excellent basic research and research training that has strong international links. The goal of the center is to provide a fundamental scientific base for future green chemical technology, identifying niche areas in the Australian context and beyond. Establishment of this SRC and its modus operandi are discussed.

Multidisciplinary ecological assessment of the Alcantara River (Sicily, Italy) using bioindicators

2014 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 283 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Guglielmo ◽  
F. Azzaro ◽  
C. Baviera ◽  
A. Bergamasco ◽  
S. N. Bissett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Status ◽  
Water Quality Assessment ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Mediterranean Studies ◽  
River Hydrology ◽  
Virginia Commonwealth University ◽  
The University ◽  
Synoptic Approach ◽  
Riparian Plant

This study was developed within the framework of a broad international project, ‘Ecological water quality assessment of the Alcantara (Italy), James (USA) and Guadalfeo (Spain) rivers using bioindicators’, established by the Center for Integrative Mediterranean Studies (CIMS), a collaborative research centre consisting of the University of Messina – Italy, Virginia Commonwealth University – USA, and the University of Cordoba – Spain. The primary objective of the study was the validation of a multi-disciplinary ecological approach at different taxonomic levels for biomonitoring of the Alcantara River (Sicily, Italy) using bioindicators. This study examined the primary physical, chemical and biological features of the river through an interdisciplinary and synoptic approach using bioindicators that included riparian plant physiology, the microbial, zooplanktonic and macroinvertebrate assemblages, Coleoptera (Insecta) and river hydrology. Sampling of the river and riparian areas was conducted at sites from the river’s headwaters to the mouth. The study provided information on the ecological status of the Alcantara River along its course and tested the use of a variety of bioindicators, rather than a single biotic or physicalattribute, to determine the river’s health.

Medical Research Council Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry, Sheffield

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-384
Author(s):  
F. A. Jenner
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Metabolic Studies ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

The Medical Research Council Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry was set up at Middle-wood Hospital, Sheffield, in 1967. It was to a considerable extent a continuation of the Medical Research Council Unit for the Chemical Pathology of Mental Disorders which had been associated with the Department of Physiology in the University of Birmingham under the direction of Professor I. E. Bush. The latter unit had in its turn largely corne from a group headed by Sir George Pickering at Oxford.

Malcolm MacNaughtan Bowie 1943–2007

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Hobson
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Stephane Mallarme ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Henri Michaux ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
International Profile ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

Malcolm MacNaughtan Bowie (1943–2007), a Fellow of the British Academy, was appointed from an assistant lectureship at the University of East Anglia to one in the University of Cambridge in 1969. At Cambridge, he worked as a specialist in difficult poets in French beginning with ‘M’, particularly Henri Michaux and Stephane Mallarmé. These are writers of involuted complexity, to read whom both a sensitivity to how word play plays and to how French prosody in poetry or prose works were essential. These studies by Bowie were followed by work on mind-altering psychoanalysis: on Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. He was the first director of the Romance Languages Institute, ran its vigorous seminar programme, and gave this a strong international profile by his invitations. At the University of Oxford, Bowie set up the European Humanities Research Centre, followed by an associated publishing venture, Legenda.

Internationalization of information science education in Nigeria

IFLA Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-174
Author(s):  
Wole Michael Olatokun ◽  
Samuel C. Avemaria Utulu
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
International Development ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
International Development Research Centre ◽  
The University

Information and knowledge management have become very crucial to the growth and development of countries around the world, including African countries. This is also true about the importance of information science education. This truth has already been accepted in Africa, including Nigeria, where the joint effort of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) led to the establishment of the Africa Regional Center for Information Science (ARCIS) in 1990. The primary objective set for ARCIS was for it, as a regional Center, to internationalize its processes, functions and curriculum. This paper, relying on both primary and secondary data, examines the issue of internationalization of information science education in Nigeria with practical examples reported from experiences at ARCIS. It highlights current achievements ARCIS has recorded in its internationalization efforts, challenges it faces due to the political experiences in Nigeria and competing needs of units and departments at the University of Ibadan, as well as the prospects of ARCIS internationalization efforts. In the end, it is concluded that the internationalization future for ARCIS is bright.

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