Dehlia UmunnaUniversity ~ Harvard Law School.Dehlia Umunna is an outstanding Nigerian-born American lawyer and lecturer who is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.A release on the Harvard website about her appointment says she has been a lecturer at Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2007, and is Deputy Director and Clinical Instructor at HLS's Criminal Justice Institute (CJI), in which she supervises third-year law students in their representation of adult and juvenile clients in criminal and juvenile proceedings and arguments before Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals court.Before joining Harvard Law School, Umunna was a trial attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service and an adjunct professor of law and Practitioner in Residence at the Washington College of Law, American University. She currently serves as a faculty member for Gideon's Promise, and is a frequent presenter at Public Defender trainings across America.She was a board member of the District of Columbia Law Students in Court Clinic and was a guest lecturer for several years at the George Washington University Law School.She is the author of the article 'Rethinking the Neighborhood WatchIlesanmi Adesisa[img]http://news.illinois.edu/WebsandThumbs/Adesida,Ilesanmi/Adeside_Ilesanmi_b.jpg[/img]Ilesanmi Adesida(born 1949, Ifon, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a naturalized American physicist of Nigeria descent. He is the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, former Dean, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign; [ 4 ]and since 2007, a member of the board of Fluor Corporation.In May 2012, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinoisselected Adesida to be the next vice chancellor for academic affairs and provostof the Urbana campus; a position he has held since August 15, 2012. Adesida's field of academic research is nanotechnologywith special emphasis on high speed devices used in communications. He has held posts as director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of electrical and computer engineering, professor of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technologyand researchprofessor of the Coordinated Science Laboratory, all at the University of Illinois. Adesida earned his bachelor's (1974), master's (1975), and doctoral (1979) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.ResearchAdesida is an expert in the processing of semiconductors and other materials at the nanometer-scale level and in ultra-high-speed heterostructurefield-effect transistors'the sort of transistors used in cell-phones, fiber opticscommunications, deep space[ disambiguation needed]communications, and other applications. His contributions have provided insights into the limits of advanced lithographyand other nanofabricationtechniques.He and his students continue to work in the areas of nanoelectronicsand high-speed optoelectronicdevices and circuits. Recent work has focused on the development of devices and circuits in the key materials such as indium phosphideand gallium nitrideutilized in high-performance wireless, optical fiber communications, and high temperature applications. He has published over 250 refereed journal papers, over 180 conference papers and presentations, and many book chapters.Professional organisations and honorsAdesida is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS), the American Vacuum Society, and the Optical Society of America. Kunle olukotunKunle Olukotun is a Cadence Design Systems Professor, of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Stanford Universityand he has been on the faculty since 1991. Olukotun is well known for leading the Stanford Hydra research project which developed one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for thread-level speculation (TLS). Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop high-throughput, low power server systems with chip multiprocessor technology. Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems; the Afara microprocessor technology, called Niagara, is at the center of Sun's throughput computing initiative. Niagara based systems have become one of Sun's fastest ramping products ever. Olukotun is actively involved in research in computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems. Olukotun currently co-leads the Transactional Coherence and Consistency project whose goal is to make parallel programming accessible to average programmers. Olukotun also directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL) which seeks to proliferate the use of parallelism in all application areas. Olukotun is an ACM Fellow (2006) for contributions to multiprocessors on a chip and multi threaded processor design. He has authored many papers on CMP design and parallel software and recently completed a book on CMP architecture. Olukotun received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Michigan.Toyin Omoyeni FalolaToyin Omoyeni Falola(born 1 January 1953 in Ibadan) is a Nigerian historian and professor of African Studies. He is currently the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, he is the author of numerous books, including Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, and many edited books including Tradition and Change in Africa and African Writers and Readers.He is the co-editor of the Journal of African Economic History, Series Editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, and the Series Editor of the Culture and Customs of Africa by Greenwood Press. He has received various awards and honors,including the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, the Texas Exes Teaching Award, and the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Award for Research Excellence.Peter EkehPeter P. Ekeh came to the University of Buffalo's African American Studies as Professor in 1989. He was Chair of this department from 1993 to 2001. Before coming to Buffalo, Dr. Ekeh taught at the University of California, Riverside (1970-73); Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in northern Nigeria (1973-74); and at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1974-1989).He was Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan (1978-1983) and Chairman of the Ibadan University Press (1983-1988).Peter Ekeh received his undergraduate education at the University of Ibadan (1961-64) and his graduate degrees in sociology from StanfordUniversity (1965-66) and University of California, Berkeley (1966-70).Dr. Ekeh's early research interest was in sociological theory, in which he published Social Exchange Theory: The Two Traditions (1974), and in psychoanalytic theory.He has since developed special interests in African politics and history, in which he has some leading publications. Dr. Ekeh's article'Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement' (1975) is one of the most cited publications in the field of African studies,Peter Ekeh has held several fellowships in Europe, United States, and Japan. He was a Fellow of the WoodrowWilsonCenter for International Scholars, Washington, D.C. (1988-89). Dr. Ekeh has received various research and scholarship awards in Nigeria and the United States.Osidore OkpewhoHe is a State University of New York Distinguished Professorof Africana Studies, English, & Comparative Literatureat Binghamton University.Born in Nigeria, Isidore Okpewho has a B.A. in Honors Classics from the University of London, a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Denver, and a D.Lit. in the Humanities from the University of London. He has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1974-76), University of Ibadan (1976-90), Harvard University (1990-91), and BinghamtonUniversity (since 1991).Okpe who's areas of specialization are in African and comparative literatures, with a specialist emphasis on comparative oral traditions. His major publications in this field include The Epic in Africa: Toward a Poetics of the Oral Performance (1979), Myth in Africa: A Study of Its Aesthetic and Cultural Relevance (1983), African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity (1992), and Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity (1998).His edited scholarly volumes reveal an expansion of his academic interests from oral literature (The Oral Performance inAfrica, 1990), to modern African literature.He completed a book on an African epic under the title Blood on the Delta: Art, Culture, and Society in The Ozidi Saga, as well as working on a new book project African Mythology in the New World. He has also published some four dozen journal and book articles in these areas.Professor Okpewho is also an active novelist with four titles, The Victims (1970), The Last Duty, winner of the African Arts Prize for Literature (1976), Tides, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa (1993), and Call Me By My Rightful Name (2004) and fish scales.Mobolaji alokoMobolaji E. Aluko (born 2 April, 1955; in Lagos, Nigeria) is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Howard University, Washington, DC, and was Chair of its department from 1994-2002.With an BSc degree (1976) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ife (Nigeria; now Obafemi Awolowo University), he also attended Imperial College, University of London; University of California, Santa Barbara; and State University of New York, Buffalo (for graduate and post-doc studies). He has had sabbatical teaching and research stints at various times at the University of Washington, (Seattle; Materials Science Department); the University of Maryland (College Park; Chemical Engineering), and the University of Ado-Ekiti (Nigeria; Mechanical Engineering Department). He started teaching at Howard University in August 1984. His research interests are mathematical modeling, chemical reaction engineering, electronic materials processing, energy systems, information technology and education pedagogy.He is presently President/CEO of Alondex Applied Technologies, LLC: Lead Consultant and International Coordinator of the LEAD Program at the National Universities Commission (NUC) in Nigeria; and Principal Academic Consultant of AfriHUB (Nig.) Ltd., a ICT resource provider for universities in Nigeria.He is an activist and frequent commentator on Nigerian and African affairsEkwere J. PetersHe is Professor of Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering at the University of Alberta, CanadaDr. Peters has served on the faculty since 1980. He has four years of industrial experience and specializes in fluid flow in porous media. His research interests include application of advanced imaging technologies for the physical and mathematical modeling of fluids in porous media. Dr. Peters has published more than 70 technical articles and reports.Current Research Projects* Computer Imaging in Enhanced Oil Recovery* Numerical Modeling of Laboratory Flow Experiments* Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media Assisted by X-Ray Computed Tomography and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ImagingHonors:Frank W. Jessen Professor in Petroleum EngineeringGeorge H. Fancher Professor in Petroleum Engineering
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