Dr. Guebre X. Tessema |
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Dr. Guebre Tessema is the program director of National Facilities for the Division of
Material Research at the National Science Foundation.
He was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and received his BSc in Math and Physics
in June 1974 from the University of Grenoble, France. He subsequently received
his Masters and Doctorate in Physics from the same university.
Here are his career highlights:
- 2004-Current: Adjunct Professor, George Washington University
- 1989- 2004 Clemson University, Clemson SC
- 1982-1989: Memphis State University, Assistant / Associate Professor
- 1988-1989: University of Joseph FOURIER of Grenoble, France, Visiting Professor.
- 1997-1998: Visiting Scientist, NHMFL-Pulsed Field facility
- 1984, 1985, 1986.Visiting Scientist at U.C.L.A., Summer
- 1987: Consultant at The Naval Research Laboratories
- 1987-1988: Visiting Associate Professor, Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France)
- 1980-1982: University of Southern California Post-doctoral Research Associate
- Member of the American Physical Society (1980-current)
- Member of Materials Research Society
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Over 80 publications and contributions in condensed matter physics,
metals, semiconductors, superconductors charge density waves under
extreme conditions (magnetic, mechanical, temperature ...etc)
- Trained several graduate students
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Dr. Sisay Asefa |
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Dr. Sisay Asefa is a Professor of Economics at Western Michigan University
(WMU). Dr. Sisay received his Master of Science Degree in Agricultural
Economics and his Ph.D. degree in Economics in 1980 from Iowa State University.
He also directs the Center for African Development Policy Research located in
Haenicke Institute of Global Education at WMU. He has published a number of
journal articles, edited books, chapters in books and proceedings.
Professor Sisay Asefa has been a visiting scholar to Michigan State University,
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Botswana, University of
Pretoria, Oxford University, UK and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He is
recipient of three Fulbright Fellowships of various lengths. Professor Sisay was
listed in the Global Who’s Who in Economics in 2000. He was named Public Service
Scholar by NAACP in 1987-88. He has been member of professional associations
such as the American Economic Association, Ethiopian Economic Association, among
others.
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Dr. Yonas Gizaw |
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Dr. Yonas Gizaw is currently a Principal Scientist for the Procter
and Gamble’s Fabric and Home Care Technology Division, leading a
program on using biodegradable and renewable biopolymers that will
significantly reduce the use of petroleum-based polymers for detergents.
Previously at P&G, he worked in the Snack and Beverage Technology
Division and the Family Care Upstream Technology Division. Dr. Gizaw,
who is originally from Ethiopia, received his B.S. degree in Pharmacy
from the University of Havana in Cuba in 1986. He came to Purdue to
study carbohydrate chemistry with Dr. Jim BeMiller, and received his
Ph.D. in Food Science from Purdue in 1996.
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Dr. Messay Kebede |
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Dr. Messay Kebede (*1945 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton in Ohio.
He obtained his M.A. in Philosophy in 1973 and his Ph.D. in 1976
from the University of Grenoble in France. After the completion of
his philosophical studies in France, he returned to Ethiopia and
taught philosophy at Addis Ababa University from 1976 to 1993,
where he became Chairman of the Department of Philosophy in 1979.
His university career was interrupted when the Ethiopian government
dismissed him with 40 other instructors from Addis Ababa University
for political reasons. He went to the USA in 1996 and joined the
Department of Philosophy of the University of Dayton in 1998. His
research interests are African philosophy, philosophy of race,
philosophy of development and Henri Bergson. He has published
numerous articles and is the author of four books, Meaning and
Development (1994), Survival and Modernization – Ethiopia's
Enigmatic Present: A Philosophical Discourse (1999), Africa's
Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization (2004), and his
most recent, Radicalization and Cultural
Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 (2008).
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Dr. Daniel Kendie |
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Dr. Daniel Kendie is professor of history at Henderson State University
in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
He received his M.Sc. (Honors) in Economics from the University of Prague in 1971
and his M.A. in Sociology and Political Science from the International
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands in 1974.
Subsequently he was awarded
a three-year Fellowship by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in
New York, where he completed a major study on the problems of peace development in
Africa.
In 1994 he was granted a scholarship and a fellowship by Michigan State University, where
he completed his Ph.D., specializing on the modern history of the Middle East, Africa
and Russia/the Soviet Union.
Dr. Daniel Kendie is the author of "The Five Dimensions of the Eritrean Conflict
1941 - 2004: Deciphering the Geo-Political puzzle."
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Dr. Samuel Kinde Kassegne |
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Dr. Samuel Kinde Kassegne is a faculty member of UCSD (University Of
California, San Diego) Extension where he teaches courses in engineering
and computer simulations. Dr. Kassegne holds a Ph.D. in engineering
mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He
has been involved in Ethiopic standardization (both 8 bit and Unicode),
professional software development and runs a popular Internet-portal,
“Ethiopia on the Web” [www.ethiopians.com]. He also owns www.edulix.com,
a dedicated site for students and scholars pursuing advanced education.
He is the founder of EthCITA - Ethiopian Computing and Information
Technology Association, a US-based professional organization.
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Dr. Greg Allgood |
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Dr. Greg Allgood is Director, Children’s Safe Drinking Water at Procter & Gamble
and Senior Fellow in Sustainability. Dr. Allgood has been with P&G for 21 years
and leads P&G’s efforts to provide safe drinking water in the developing world.
He has a Ph.D. in Toxicology from North Carolina State University and a Master
of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill,
where he did research in the water area.
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