scientist

8Jun

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Lynika Strozier, scientist

Lynika Strozier ‑ an American scientist whose efforts to overcome a learning disability were described as inspirational – succumbed to the Covid 19 on June 7, 2020 at just 35 years of age. Strozier was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but moved to Chicago, with her mother, when she was a toddler. Strozier's mother was a drug addict, who was not able to care for her properly, and her grandmother raised her from age 6. She was diagnosed with learning disabilities at age 8, that profoundly affected both reading and math. According to The Chicago Tribune "when she read aloud, it was in such a halting manner that it sometimes sounded like she was gasping for breath." Her grandmother recounts being advised that Lynika's disability was so profound she shou...

9May

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Ghana, Medics, Profiles

Mad Sophia Addo, Nurse

Mad Sophia Addo, Nurse Mad Sophia Addo, 54, a Nurse at Ghana Manganese Company Hospital in Western Region of Ghana, passed away due to COVID-19 on May 8, 2020. The statement signed by the regional secretary of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives’ Association stated, “Madam Sophia reported sick on the 6th of May 2020 and returned home after treatment. She returned the following day with worsening health condition and started exhibiting signs of COVID-19…Samples were taken and before the result came, she passed away on the night of 8th May 2020. However, the result came out positive for COVID-19.” The deceased is said to have had underlying health conditions including asthma and hypertension. Source: Ghana Web Please help us in adding detail...

Donald Kennedy, scientist, public administrator, and academic

22Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Donald Kennedy, scientist, public administrator, and academic

He served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1977–79), President of Stanford University (1980–92), and Editor-in-Chief of Science (2000–08). Following this, he was named president emeritus of Stanford University; Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, emeritus; and senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Donald Kennedy was born on August 18, 1931 in New York City, the son of Barbara Bean and William Dorsey Kennedy. He attended Dublin School through high school and went on to attend Harvard University, where he received an A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. in Biology, in 1956. His doctoral dissertation was titled Studies on the Frog Electroretinogram. From 1956 to 1960, Kennedy taught biology at Syracuse University, receiving...

22Mar

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High Profilers, Philippines, Profiles

Aileen Baviera, political scientist

Aileen San Pablo Baviera ‑ a Filipino political scientist and sinologist ‑ died of pneumonia caused by the COVID-19 at the San Lazaro Hospital, Manila. She contracted the disease on March 12, when she returned after participating in a security conference in Paris, France. She was one of two Filipino delegates - the other being Dr. Alan T. Ortiz - who were exposed to the disease at the conference and later succumbed to it. Baviera was the widow of Jorge Villegas Baviera, who died in 2018, and had three children. She was one of the leading China experts in her country. In October 1979, Baviera received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, cum laude at the University of the Philippines. As a student of modern Chinese history at th...

21Feb

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China, Noteworthy, Profiles

Ke Huibing, management scientist

Ke Huibing ‑ a Chinese management scientist, professor and doctoral advisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology – succumbed to Covid-19 on 19 February 2020. Ke was educated at Law School of Hubei University, majoring in law, where he graduated in June 2002 and obtained a bachelor's degree. In June 2005, he graduated from the School of Sociology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a doctor's degree in management. In June 2008, he obtained a doctor's degree in management in Wuhan University Social Security Research Center. Since July 2008, he was a teacher of management science at the School of Social Sciences of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His professional direction was social security theory and poli...