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| | | | Sarah Jasmine Knight is the Cultural Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Nepal. She previously worked at the U.S. Embassy in Oman. Before joining the U.S. Department of State, she worked as a project manager at the World Bank and USAID workforce development projects. She also worked as an English Teacher for high school and university students in Tunisia. She has a Masters and a Bachelor's degree, both from George Washington University in Washington, DC. |
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| | On the resumption of programs for U.S. Students and Scholars – we are happy to announce the arrival of two of our U.S. Student Researchers in the month of January. Welcome Martine Cartier and William Shangraw! However, due to the sudden and rapid spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, Nepal started seeing a steep rise in number of infections and an alarming rate of infection among the tested by the end of the second week of January. As a result, the Commission consultation with the U.S. Embassy in Nepal decided to delay the arrival of all American grantees scheduled to start late January and February, 2022. We hope to resume their arrivals from March, with the English Teaching Assistant Program and continue on. The Commission has suspended its Educational Advising Center Library and Attestation Services owing to the risk of increasing community spread at the time of a surge. We hope to resume our in-person services soon when conditions are slightly better and the wave is on a significant downward trend. All Educational Advising Center programs are being conducted virtually and very efficiently. The Prometric Testing Center remains open for in-person testing services for all prior scheduled professional/language and standardized examinations, in observance of strict safety protocols. We wish everyone a safe February! | | |
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| | | | Fulbright Commission welcomed U.S. Student Researchers Martine Cartier and William Shangraw this January. Martine will study the semi-nomadic dairy industry in Nepal, specifically the supply chains of various traditional dairy products made in the high hills of Nepal and the transhumant lifestyles of its makers. While in Nepal, she will be affiliated with National Forage and Grassland Research Center and Tribhuvan University and will be based in Kathmandu, when not in the communities for research. As a Fulbright researcher, William is examining the role of citizens and local governments in Nepal’s tourism sector, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. He is affiliated with Governance Lab, Lalitpur. William is particularly interested in community strategies for building back sustainable and inclusive models of tourism, given tourism’s increasingly important role in many local economies in Nepal.
Know more about U.S. Student Researchers here.
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| | | Fulbright 75th anniversary might be over, but we're still celebrating! In case you missed any features on the many ways that Fulbrighters inspire, innovate, and find solutions to challenges facing our communities and our world, check out the Year-in-Review at Fulbright75.org. |
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| | | On January 27, the Educational Advising Center organized a ‘Let's Talk Thursdays’ session, which usually takes place once every month. Ms. Garima Rokaya, a participant of our Opportunity Funds Program for 2021, led the session. Garima is a freshman at Howard University majoring in Psychology. In this session, she talked about positive psychology and how everyone can implement it in their day-to-day lives. Additionally, she spoke about Martin Seligman's PERMA theory of well-being and explained how people with a purpose and meaning in their lives are happier. The session was well-attended and greatly appreciated by the participants. | | |
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| | | | Alumni FeatureDr. Sujit Kumar Shah | | |
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| | | Dr. Shah, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Mahendra Morang Adarsh Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Biratnagar was the 2020 Fulbright Visiting Scholar award recipient. He conducted research on the preparation and characterization of carbon dots nanoparticles for photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants from wastewater in the Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, Florida under the supervision of Professor Roger M. Leblanc. Apart from the main project, he collaborated with Professor Leblanc’s research group on several other projects Preparation and characterization of Temozolomide, Doxorubicin and Memantine drugs carbon dots, Langmuir Monolayer surface studies of enzyme Proteinase K, Tau-protein-aggregate inhibition by carbon nitride dots, Cationic-nonionic surfactant mixture interaction with dye (Evans Blue) in methanol-water. (Surface tension and Spectrophotometric study and effect of medium chain alcohols (methanol, ethanol and propanol) on surface properties of anionic surfactants (TRITON-X).
Dr. Shah presented his research work at Thomas More University, Kentucky through the Outreach Lecture Fund provided by Fulbright for Visiting Scholars during his stay.
Having returned to Nepal in January 2022, he plans to further collaborate with Professor Leblanc’s group for additional research work in the future. Learn more
Know more about the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program here. |
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| | | | Articles by and featuring our alumni | | |
| | | Case Management is Key as Virus has Taken Root in the Country, Experts SayDr. Biraj Karmacharya Featured in The Kathmandu Post Nepali Artist’s Butterfly EffectArticle by Kunda Dixit in Nepali Times Back to the EightiesArticle by Sujeev Shakya in The Kathmandu Post The Historic Kathmandu Beneath Our FeetArticle By Sahina Shrestha in Nepali Times Kathmandu’s Temple Restoration after 1934 QuakeArticle by Sahina Shrestha in Nepali Times All Politics is LocalArticle by Sahina Shrestha in Nepali Times On-screen MountainsArticle by Sahina Shrestha in Nepali Times Political Turmoil does Nepal No FavoursArticle by Sujeev Shakya in EASTASIAFORUM Tsering Sumjok is All RightArticle by Sahina Shrestha in Nepali Times The Scars of WarArticle by Sahina Shrestha in Nepali Times |
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