The 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 $8.3 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.
Rita Rossi Colwell is an American environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. Colwell holds degrees in bacteriology,genetics,and oceanography and studies infectious diseases. Colwell is the founder and Chair of CosmosID,a bioinformatics company. From 1998 to 2004,she was the 11th Director and 1st female Director of the National Science Foundation. She has served on the board of directors of EcoHealth Alliance since 2012.
The University of Engineering and Technology,Lahore is a public university located in Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan specializing in science,technology,engineering,and mathematics (STEM) subjects. It is the oldest and one of the most selective engineering institutions in Pakistan.
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 city. The university has 44 departments.
Khulna University is a public university in Gollamari,Khulna,Bangladesh. It is near the river Moyur,beside the Sher e Bangla Road. The academic programs of Khulna University started on 31 August 1991 with 80 students in four disciplines. As of 2023,the university has 29 disciplines under 8 schools.
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.
Rafael Luis Bras is a Puerto Rican civil engineer best known for his contributions in surface hydrology and hydrometeorology,including his work in soil-vegetation-atmosphere system modeling.
Graham Michael "Mike" Purdy is a British geophysicist and oceanographer who specializes in marine seismology. He retired as the Executive Vice President for Research at Columbia University on 1 January 2020. Previously,he was the Director of Columbia's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO). Currently he is a Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Earth's critical zone is the “heterogeneous,near surface environment in which complex interactions involving rock,soil,water,air,and living organisms regulate the natural habitat and determine the availability of life-sustaining resources”. The Critical Zone,surface and near-surface environment,sustains nearly all terrestrial life.
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is an annual multi-tiered competition among the universities of the world. There are eighteen different sites in Asia that host Asia Regional Final and Dhaka is one of them. Each year the winner of the Asia Regional Final Dhaka Site Contest advances to the ACM-ICPC World Finals. Like other sites of ICPC,Dhaka site contest is also sponsored by IBM and operated under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
The Bangladesh University of Professionals is a Public technological research University in Bangladesh,located in Mirpur Cantonment,Dhaka. It is the 31st public university of Bangladesh affiliated with University Grant Commission. It was established under the Bangladesh University of Professionals Act,2009.
Lawrence E. Susskind is a teacher,trainer,mediator,and urban planner. 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.
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.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University,in Medford,Massachusetts. Fletcher is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations and is well-ranked in its masters and doctoral programs. As of 2017,the student body numbered around 230,of whom 36 percent were international students from 70 countries,and around a quarter were U.S. minorities. The school's alumni network numbers over 9,500 in 160 countries,and includes foreign heads of state,ambassadors,diplomats,foreign ministers,high-ranking military officers,heads of nonprofit organizations,and corporate executives. It is consistently ranked as one of the world's top graduate schools for international relations.
Daniel Barton Oerther is an American professor. He is best known for leadership bridging engineering and nursing to advance environmental health practice through science diplomacy. Oerther uses 16S ribosomal RNA-targeted techniques for fundamental studies of the ecology of bacteria in engineered and natural systems. He promotes transdisciplinarity among engineers,nurses,and sanitarians to improve access to clean water,nutritious food,and energy efficiency in developing communities. Oerther practices innovation in the scholarship of teaching and learning,including modified mastery learning.
John Briscoe was a South African-born environmental engineer who was Visiting Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health. He was known as "Mr. Water" to environmental economists. At Harvard,Briscoe also held appointments at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) as Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering,and at the Harvard Kennedy School. His career focused on efforts on the developing world to successfully manage and preserve water as a precious resource. In early 2014,he received the Stockholm Water Prize - the “Nobel Prize of Water" - for "unparalleled contributions to global and local management of water - contributions covering vast thematic,geographic,and institutional environments-that have improved the lives and livelihoods of millions of people worldwide.”
Khaleda Ekram was a Bangladeshi architect,professor,researcher,and academician. She served as the 12th vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). She was the former dean of the faculty of architecture and planning and head of the department of architecture at BUET. She was the first woman to be appointed as the vice-chancellor of BUET. She held the position from September 2014 until her death in May 2016.
Ashanti Johnson is an American geochemist and chemical oceanographer. She is the first African American to earn a doctoral degree in oceanography from Texas A&M University.
Terri S. Hogue is an American hydrologist. She is currently a professor and department head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. Her research focuses on different hydrologic and land surface processes in semi-arid regions and the implications of them on water resource management.
Satya Prasad Majumder is a Bangladeshi academic. He is the current and the 14th vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
