The first female African to lead WTO世贸组织首位非洲女性Nigerian-American economist Okonjo-Iweala was named the new chief of the WorldTrade Organization(WTO) on February 15. She has become the first African and thefirst woman ever to lead the global trade organization.The WTO was founded in ...
Born in 1875, the son of former slaves, Woodson chased every educational opportunity that he could find. After years of balancing his schooling with work, Woodson earned a Master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a Phd from Harvard University, both in history. During that time, Wo...
The path has been cleared for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the first African woman to lead the World Trade Organization. This follows the decision by her sole competitor, South Korea’s Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee, to drop from the race on 5 February. The WTO ...
1. Dorothy Hodgkin (Oxford and Cambridge, Chemistry, 1964) The first British woman to win a Nobel prize, Dorothy Hodgkin is a graduate of both Oxford, where she studied for her BSc and then returned as a fellow – and Cambridge, where she studied for her PhD. At the time when she was...
Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD, from the Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Center, Division of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston, sat down with OBR to discuss the diminishing relevance of first-generation BTK inhibitors. She discussed the rational...
She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and a PhD in regional economics and development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is considered a trailblazer by many. Okonjo-Iweala will need to use all her experience as a trade minister and negotiator in the...
DisorientationbyElaine Hsieh Chou: An Asian American PhD student desperate to claw her way out of academic hell? Sign me up, please! Even better,Alexander Cheecalls this an “Asian American literary studies whodunnit.” Ingrid Yang finds herself in the midst of solving a mystery tied to a lat...
The response options for race were American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or African American, Pacific Islander, and White. Respondents could endorse any or all these responses. Other volunteered responses were field coded as “Other,”“Don’t know/Not sure,” and “Refused.” ...
Students from mainland China and Hong Kong explained that bananas are used as a metaphor to define people of Chinese ethnicity who have adopted European mannerisms: yellow on the outside, white on the inside. Along the same lines, explained an American student of Indian descent, coconuts are ...
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