Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville,Massachusetts,with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton,as well as in Talloires,France. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. Tufts remained a small liberal arts college until the 1970s,when it transformed into a large research university offering several doctorates.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about $9.9 billion,the NSF funds approximately 25% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. In some fields,such as mathematics,computer science,economics,and the social sciences,the NSF is the major source of federal backing.
The Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology is a public technological research university in Dhaka,the capital city of Bangladesh. Founded in 1876 as the Dacca Survey School and gained university status in 1962,it is the oldest institution for the study of engineering,architecture,and urban planning in the country.
Systems science,also referred to as systems research,or,simply,systems,is a transdisciplinary field that is concerned with understanding simple and complex systems in nature and society,which leads to the advancements of formal,natural,social,and applied attributions throughout engineering,technology and science,itself.
Bangladesh Agricultural University,abbreviated as BAU,was established in 1961. It is the first agricultural university and also the second largest public university of Bangladesh. This university is located in Mymensingh. The university has 44 departments.
The University of Rajshahi,also known as Rajshahi University or RU,is a public research university located in Motihar,Rajshahi,Bangladesh. It is the second oldest and third largest university in Bangladesh. The university's 59 departments are organized into 12 faculties. It is one of the four autonomous university by the act (1973) of Bangladesh.
The Alan T. Waterman Award,named after Alan Tower Waterman,is the United States's highest honorary award for scientists no older than 40,or no more than 10 years past receipt of their Ph.D. It is awarded on a yearly basis by the National Science Foundation. In addition to the medal,the awardee receives a grant of $1,000,000 to be used at the institution of their choice over a period of five years for advanced scientific research.
Islamic University,Bangladesh;commonly referred to as Islamic University,Kushtia shortly IU,is a public PhD granting research university in Kushtia,Bangladesh and the largest seat of higher education in the south-west part of the country. This university in Bangladesh stands as the sole institution offering a unique program in Theology,alongside seven other academic divisions/faculties:Engineering and Technology,Humanities,Social Sciences,Sciences,Biological Sciences,Business Administration,and Law,all coexisting within a diverse and multicultural environment. It is financed by the Government of Bangladesh through University Grants Commission,Bangladesh. On 22 November 1979,the foundation of the Islamic University was set up in Kushtia,and it is operated under the Islamic University Act of 1980. Islamic University began operations on 28 June 1986. It holds the distinction of being the seventh most ancient educational institution in the nation,serving as Bangladesh's inaugural university post-independence from Pakistan in 1971. It offers undergraduate,graduate,M Phil and PhD degrees.
Bangladesh is faced with multiple water quality and quantity problems along with regular natural disasters,such as cyclones and floods. Available options for providing safe drinking water include tubewells,traditionally dug wells,treatment of surface water,desalination of groundwater with high salinity levels and rainwater harvesting.
The Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission is a scientific research organization of Bangladesh. Its main objective is to promote the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. It was established on 27 February 1973,after the independence of Bangladesh,the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission no longer having jurisdiction. Ashoke Kumar Paul is the chairman of the Commission.
Lawrence E. Susskind is a scholar of conflict resolution and consensus-building in urban planning. He is one of the founders of the field of public dispute mediation and is a practicing international mediator through the Consensus Building institute. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1971,where he is Ford Professor of Environmental Planning.
BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology or BUFT in short,is a private university in Bangladesh. It was established with the aim to produce technically competent human resources for the ready-made garments sector of the country.
Water diplomacy focuses on establishing novel solutions founded on a scientific basis and sensitive to societal constraints to a wide range of water problems. Tools of water diplomats include environmental policy,water management strategy,and engineering solutions and are applied within the context of the individual water problem at the appropriate scale.
AquaPedia is free,web-based,collaborative self-learning repository of interactive and searchable water case studies from across the planet for information and analysis of water conflicts. It was developed at Tufts University in 2008.
Mustapha Khalid Palash is a Bangladeshi architect. He is considered one of the leading contemporary architects of Bangladesh. He is also an artist,multi instrumentalist-singer and painter. He is the editor of quarterly DOT:Journal on Art &Architecture,one of the prominent architecture magazines of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is an under-devoloped nation. Despite rapid economic growth,poverty remains a major issue. However,poverty has declined sharply in recent history. Shortly after its independence,approximately 90% of the population lived under the poverty line. However,since economic reforms and trade liberalization of early 1990s,along with accelerated economic growth since early-2000s,Bangladesh have experienced a dramatic progress in reducing poverty. The remarkable progress in poverty alleviation has been recognized by international institutions. According to World Bank,more than 33 million Bangladeshi people have been lifted out of poverty since 2000;as measured by the percentage of people living on the equivalent of US$1.90 or less per day in 2011 purchasing price parity terms.
Earth system governance is a broad area of scholarly inquiry that builds on earlier notions of environmental policy and nature conservation,but puts these into the broader context of human-induced transformations of the entire earth system. The integrative paradigm of earth system governance (ESG) has evolved into an active research area that brings together a variety of disciplines including political science,sociology,economics,ecology,policy studies,geography,sustainability science,and law.
Shah Mohammad Ullah is a Bangladeshi-Austrian soil scientist and environmentalist,who primarily researches arsenic contamination in the air and water.
The LudovikaUniversity of Public Service is a higher educational institution in Budapest,Hungary. Established in 2012,it is one of the youngest universities in Central and Eastern Europe;however,its faculties as former independent colleges look back much earlier.
Md. Habibur Rahman is a Bangladeshi academic and a former vice-chancellor of Dhaka University of Engineering &Technology,Gazipur. He is the former chairman of the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority. Additionally,he was a professor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
