When Professor FO Kwami was appointed Vice Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana in 1982, the School of Engineering lost the services of an exceptionally talented engineering educator. A German-trained engineer and natural teacher, Frank Kwami was a natural choice for rapid promotion to full professor and then vice-chancellor. … Read more
Strange things were happening in the outer solar system when it was first born. That ice giants, Uranus and Neptune are the two outermost major planets of our Sun’s family, and they are very similar in size, mass, composition and great distance from our star. Both distant worlds are distinctly different from the quartet of … Read more
We live in a mysterious universe – most of it we cannot see. What is it made of and has its composition changed over time? The starlit galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters are all embedded in invisible halos made of transparent material that scientists refer to as the galaxy clusters “Dark matter.” This mysterious substance … Read more
Sentence equivalence problems are a new type of question in the Verbal Reasoning section of the new GRE (coming August 2011). This type of question will give you a sentence with one word left out. You choose two answers from a list of six possible answers that give the sentence the same (or as close … Read more
I’ll start with the statistics of accepted students for the University of Southern California PhD in Pharmacy in 2009. 460 students were offered for interviews from a pool of over 2000 applicants. The enrollment is 240 students (11 non-government students) and the expected class size for 2009 is 190. It is important to note that … Read more
The Second Vice Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana was not an engineer or scientist, he was a distinguished medical doctor. dr Emanuel Evans-Anfom, who served from 1967 to 1973, was appointed to succeed Nkrumah’s friend Dr. RP Baffour appointed. The new vice chancellor was not well received at … Read more
I was having a conversation the other day about copyright, you know, I’m an online article author, and I’ve created a number of e-books, and prior to becoming an author I was quite concerned about protecting our operations manual not into the hands of competitors. I’ve had moderate success with all of the above, so … Read more
Many people were surprised when Bamfo Kwakye was appointed Vice Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana in 1975. Prior to his promotion to the university’s top post, Bamfo Kwakye was Head of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, but his academic status … Read more
About the City of Hermosillo: The Majestic “City of the Sun” Hermosillo is the capital of the state of Sonora and is located 2037 km from Mexico City via federal highways 57, 45, 110, 90 and 15 in Mexico. Hermosillo is also known as the city of oranges because of the abundance of oranges in … Read more
#305 Marguerite Cartwright Avenue, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Campus For many staff and students at the University of Nigeria and others across planet Earth, it may be just another house in the residential neighborhoods of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka Campus and you probably have . The house in question is quite historic. Why do … Read more