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PROMOTER OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Dr. Sultana N. Nahar
Official Involvement: 1995 - present


OBJECTIVES
ACTIVITIES
RECOGNITIONS

OBJECTIVES:

  • Promote and Support research and STEM education in Arab and Asian Countries

  • Some objectives are described in FIP EC meeting presentation, 2012

  • Examples of work are described in 2013 prize winning presentation: "John Wheatley Award Talk: Promoting Under-Represented Physicists in Asian and Arab Countries and Muslim Women in Science", Sultana N. Nahar, APS April Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April-13-16, 2013

    • ACTIVITIES:

  • Outreach and Engagement Forum at OSU: "Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Award Project: STEM Education and Research Faculty Training in India", Poster Presentation Number 54, May 1, 2014, picture, with Peter Magrath

  • Prize distribution for Physics teachers and students in Aligarh Muslim University - in Indian Two Circles Net news: "Telescope facility inaugurated at AMU", September, 2013

  • Poster: "Globalization of OSU: Connection to Egypt and Other Middle East and African Countries through STEM" at 2013 OSU Outreach and Engagement FORUM Posters, The Ohio State University, 2013

  • Forum of International Physics News: "Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Award for the Ohio State University ˗ Aligarh Muslim University Partnership"

  • APS FIP news article: "Egypt Connection 2", Sultana Nahar, Fall 2013

  • APS FIP news article: "Recent Visit to Bangladesh Universities and Physics Prizes", Nahar, Spring 2013

  • APS FIP news article: "Egypt Connection", Nahar, Fall 2012

  • APS FIP news article: "Highlights of a trip to the UAE and India" Nahar, Spring 2012

  • "Astronomy through Superhot to Cold Atoms", S.N. Nahar, 2nd Radha Gobinda Chandra Memorial Lecture (advertised public lecture in Astronomy, News in Prathom Alo), Bangladesh Astronomical Society (BAS), Bangladesh, July 28, 2011
    Pictures: lecture, books for BAS

    RECOGNITIONS:

  • Sealed plaque, in recognition for contributing to scientific education in India via Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Award, jointly by AMU-DUTY Society and Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathmatics (ISIAM), "Function 20th Sept 2013", New Delhi, September 2013 (Guest of honor public lecture)

  • "Bab-e-Syed" plaque of Aligarh Muslim University. in recognition of contribution for Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Award from USIEF for the partnership between Ohio State University and AMU, 2013

  • 2013 John Wheatley Award, Certificate, American Physical Society. Citation: "For efforts to promote physics research and teaching through collaboration, mentoring, and philanthrophy in several third-world countries, and in particular for her promotion, as both an advocate and role model, of Muslim women scientists."
    Display of picture at APS News page for the month of June 2013

  • Nomination: "International Engagement Emerging Award", the Ohio State Universityr, Invitation for a nominee presentation, Outreach Forum

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