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Dehlia Umunna
University ~ Harvard Law School.
Dehlia Umunna is an outstanding Nigerian-born American lawyer and lecturer who is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
A release on the Harvard website about her appointment says she has been a lecturer at Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2007, and is Deputy Director and Clinical Instructor at HLS’s Criminal Justice Institute (CJI), in which she supervises third-year law students in their representation of adult and juvenile clients in criminal and juvenile proceedings and arguments before Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals court.
Before joining Harvard Law School, Umunna was a trial attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service and an adjunct professor of law and Practitioner in Residence at the Washington College of Law, American University. She currently serves as a faculty member for Gideon’s Promise, and is a frequent presenter at Public Defender trainings across America.
She was a board member of the District of Columbia Law Students in Court Clinic and was a guest lecturer for several years at the George Washington University Law School.
She is the author of the article “Rethinking the Neighborhood Watch
Ilesanmi Adesisa
Ilesanmi Adesida(born 1949, Ifon, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a naturalized American physicist of Nigeria descent.
He is the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, former Dean, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign; [ 4 ]and since 2007, a member of the board of Fluor Corporation.
In May 2012, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinoisselected Adesida to be the next vice chancellor for academic affairs and provostof the Urbana campus; a position he has held since August 15, 2012.
Adesida’s field of academic research is nanotechnologywith special emphasis on high speed devices used in communications. He has held posts as director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of electrical and computer engineering, professor of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technologyand researchprofessor of the Coordinated Science Laboratory, all at the University of Illinois. Adesida earned his bachelor’s (1974), master’s (1975), and doctoral (1979) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Research
Adesida is an expert in the processing of semiconductors and other materials at the nanometer-scale level and in ultra-high-speed heterostructurefield-effect transistors—the sort of transistors used in cell-phones, fiber opticscommunications, deep space[ disambiguation needed]communications, and other applications. His contributions have provided insights into the limits of advanced lithographyand other nanofabricationtechniques.
He and his students continue to work in the areas of nanoelectronicsand high-speed optoelectronicdevices and circuits. Recent work has focused on the development of devices and circuits in the key materials such as indium phosphideand gallium nitrideutilized in high-performance wireless, optical fiber communications, and high temperature applications. He has published over 250 refereed journal papers, over 180 conference papers and presentations, and many book chapters.
Professional organisations and honors
Adesida is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS), the American Vacuum Society, and the Optical Society of America.
Kunle olukotun
Kunle Olukotun is a Cadence Design Systems Professor, of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Stanford University
and he has been on the faculty since 1991. Olukotun is well known for leading the Stanford Hydra research project which developed one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for thread-level speculation (TLS). Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop high-throughput, low power server systems with chip multiprocessor technology. Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems; the Afara microprocessor technology, called Niagara, is at the center of Sun’s throughput computing initiative. Niagara based systems have become one of Sun’s fastest ramping products ever. Olukotun is actively involved in research in computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems. Olukotun currently co-leads the Transactional Coherence and Consistency project whose goal is to make parallel programming accessible to average programmers. Olukotun also directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL) which seeks to proliferate the use of parallelism in all application areas. Olukotun is an ACM Fellow (2006) for contributions to multiprocessors on a chip and multi threaded processor design. He has authored many papers on CMP design and parallel software and recently completed a book on CMP architecture. Olukotun received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Michigan.
Toyin Omoyeni Falola
Toyin Omoyeni Falola(born 1 January 1953 in Ibadan) is a Nigerian historian and professor of African Studies. He is currently the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.
A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, he is the author of numerous books, including Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, and many edited books including Tradition and Change in Africa and African Writers and Readers.He is the co-editor of the Journal of African Economic History, Series Editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, and the Series Editor of the Culture and Customs of Africa by Greenwood Press. He has received various awards and honors,including the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, the Texas Exes Teaching Award, and the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Award for Research Excellence.
Peter Ekeh
Peter P. Ekeh came to the University of Buffalo’s African American Studies as Professor in 1989. He was Chair of this department from 1993 to 2001. Before coming to Buffalo, Dr. Ekeh taught at the University of California, Riverside (1970-73); Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in northern Nigeria (1973-74); and at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1974-1989).He was Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan (1978-1983) and Chairman of the Ibadan University Press (1983-1988).
Peter Ekeh received his undergraduate education at the University of Ibadan (1961-64) and his graduate degrees in sociology from StanfordUniversity (1965-66) and University of California, Berkeley (1966-70).Dr. Ekeh’s early research interest was in sociological theory, in which he published Social Exchange Theory: The Two Traditions (1974), and in psychoanalytic theory.He has since developed special interests in African politics and history, in which he has some leading publications. Dr. Ekeh’s article“Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement” (1975) is one of the most cited publications in the field of African studies,
Peter Ekeh has held several fellowships in Europe, United States, and Japan. He was a Fellow of the WoodrowWilsonCenter for International Scholars, Washington, D.C. (1988-89). Dr. Ekeh has received various research and scholarship awards in Nigeria and the United States.
Osidore Okpewho
He is a State University of New York Distinguished Professor
of Africana Studies, English, & Comparative Literature
at Binghamton University.
Born in Nigeria, Isidore Okpewho has a B.A. in Honors Classics from the University of London, a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Denver, and a D.Lit. in the Humanities from the University of London. He has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1974-76), University of Ibadan (1976-90), Harvard University (1990-91), and Binghamton
University (since 1991).
Okpe who’s areas of specialization are in African and comparative literatures, with a specialist emphasis on comparative oral traditions. His major publications in this field include The Epic in Africa: Toward a Poetics of the Oral Performance (1979), Myth in Africa: A Study of Its Aesthetic and Cultural Relevance (1983), African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity (1992), and Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity (1998).His edited scholarly volumes reveal an expansion of his academic interests from oral literature (The Oral Performance in
Africa, 1990), to modern African literature.
He completed a book on an African epic under the title Blood on the Delta: Art, Culture, and Society in The Ozidi Saga, as well as working on a new book project African Mythology in the New World. He has also published some four dozen journal and book articles in these areas.
Professor Okpewho is also an active novelist with four titles, The Victims (1970), The Last Duty, winner of the African Arts Prize for Literature (1976), Tides, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa (1993), and Call Me By My Rightful Name (2004) and fish scales.
Mobolaji aloko
Mobolaji E. Aluko (born 2 April, 1955; in Lagos, Nigeria) is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Howard University, Washington, DC, and was Chair of its department from 1994-2002.With an BSc degree (1976) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ife (Nigeria; now Obafemi Awolowo University), he also attended Imperial College, University of London; University of California, Santa Barbara; and State University of New York, Buffalo (for graduate and post-doc studies). He has had sabbatical teaching and research stints at various times at the University of Washington, (Seattle; Materials Science Department); the University of Maryland (College Park; Chemical Engineering), and the University of Ado-Ekiti (Nigeria; Mechanical Engineering Department). He started teaching at Howard University in August 1984. His research interests are mathematical modeling, chemical reaction engineering, electronic materials processing, energy systems, information technology and education pedagogy.
He is presently President/CEO of Alondex Applied Technologies, LLC: Lead Consultant and International Coordinator of the LEAD Program at the National Universities Commission (NUC) in Nigeria; and Principal Academic Consultant of AfriHUB (Nig.) Ltd., a ICT resource provider for universities in Nigeria.
He is an activist and frequent commentator on Nigerian and African affairs
Ekwere J. Peters
He is Professor of Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Peters has served on the faculty since 1980. He has four years of industrial experience and specializes in fluid flow in porous media. His research interests include application of advanced imaging technologies for the physical and mathematical modeling of fluids in porous media. Dr. Peters has published more than 70 technical articles and reports.
Current Research Projects
* Computer Imaging in Enhanced Oil Recovery
* Numerical Modeling of Laboratory Flow Experiments
* Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media Assisted by X-Ray Computed Tomography and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Honors:
Frank W. Jessen Professor in Petroleum Engineering
George H. Fancher Professor in Petroleum Engineering
Abba Gumel
Abba Gumel is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Director of the Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences (IIMS) of the University of Manitoba. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Bayero University (Kano, Nigeria) and Brunel University (London, England) respectively. His main research interests are in (i) Mathematical Biology, (ii) Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and (iii) Computational Mathematics.The main objective of his research work is to use mathematical theories and methodologies to gain insights into the transmission and control dynamics of human diseases of public health interest. He has supervised a number of research students (NSERC-funded summer undergraduate and graduate students) and postdoctoral fellows. Professor Gumel has been the coordinator of the Mathematical Biology Team of the IIMS since its inception in 1999, and represents the University of Manitoba on the Board of Directors of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto. Professor Gumel is an active member of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS). In addition to serving on its various committees earlier, Professor Gumel was elected Secretary of CAIMS from 2007-2009(he was re-elected for a second term: 2009-2011). Professor Gumel is also a member of the Canadian Mathematics Society (CMS) and serves on the Outreach Committee of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB). Owing to its interdisciplinary nature, Professor Gumel’s work enjoys fruitful collaborations with mathematical and medical scientists from around the world. Professor Gumel has received series of awards and he is listed among the top African Mathematicians of the 1990s on the website of the Mathematicians of the African.
Kemafor anyanwu
Dr. Kemafor Anyanwu is an associate professor at North Carolina State University, USA
Education
* 2007: Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
* 1989: Biochemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Appointments
* Aug 2007 – present: Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
* Aug 2004 – July 2007: Graduate Research Assistant, Large Scale Distributed Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia.
* May 2006 – August 2006: Summer Research Intern, Advanced Database Group, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA.
* Aug 1998 – Jul 2000: Graduate Research Assistant, Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia.
Prof. Godwin Chukwu
Godwin Chukwu is a Professor at University of Alaska, USA
Dr. Chukwu has worked for the firms of Elf Petroleum, Petroleum Associates of Lafayette, Agip Energy and Natural Resources, in different engineering and professional capacities. He has taught both undergraduate and graduate engineering and related economics courses at the University of Port-Harcourt Nigeria, and currently the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In addition, he has taught several short courses in fluid hydraulics and hydrodynamics, and drilling optimization, as a consultant. He served as the chair of the petroleum engineering department at UAF from 1992-1995 and 1996-2002.
Dr. Chukwu has authored and co-authored over 65 research publications in the areas of drilling, hydraulics, gas-to-liquids transportation, petroleum geology and
natural resource utilization. He is internationally known for his work in the area of non-Newtonian fluid hydraulics applied to oil well drilling/production technology, and hydrodynamics of GTL transportation in pipes. His current research work in gas-to-liquid transportation and operational challenges through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is sponsored by the US Department of Energy, and supported by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company.
Dr. Chukwu is a registered professional engineer in both Nigeria and the state of Alaska. He has served in several professional bodies and organizations which include the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Dr. Chukwu served as the UAF Faculty Senate President-elect (May 2001-May 2002), and subsequently, the Faculty Senate
President (May 2002-May 2003).
Education
* Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1989
* MS in Petroleum Engineering, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, 1980
* BS in Petroleum Engineering, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, 1979
George Ude,
He is a Assistant Professor, Department of Natural science Bowie state university, USA
Education
B.S. – University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (Botany)
M.S. – Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (Genetics)
Ph.D. – University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Plant Breeding and Genetics)
Post-doc – University of Maryland, College Park (Soybean Phylogeny and Molecular Marker Assisted Selection); International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria (Molecular Genetics of the Musa species).
Areas of Expertise – molecular biology, molecular markers and phylogenetic studies.
Editor-in-Chief of the fast rising African Journal of Biotechnology
Raymond Akwule
Prof. Raymond Akwule has more than 25 years of teaching, research, and project planning and implementation experience in the fields of telecommunications and information technology as well as Mass Communication and Media studies at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia USA.
He is the author of Global Telecommunication: The Technology,Administration and policies (Butterworth-Heinemann). This book has been used as text in several major Universities in the USA and worldwide. He is also the author of numerous articles and conference presentation.
He was Director of Center for Telecommunications Information and Broadcasting, which later become the Center for Media Research and Telecommunications at the department of Communication, George Mason University. He was one of the founders of the MA Telecommunications programs at the same university.
Professor Akwule has advised many countries in the area of Media and communication and has spearheaded the design and implementation of several nation ICT networks as well as e-government, e-commerce and e-education programs in Africa.
Dr Ferdinand Ofodile
Dr. Ferdinand Ofodile is a board certified plastic surgeon. Dr. Ofodile is a clinical professor of surgery at Columbia University, New York. He has been practicing plastic surgery for more than twenty years. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), and a Fellow of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons. He is also board certified in general surgery.
Dr. Ofodile received his Bachelor of Science (BS) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. He did his surgical training at Columbia Presbyterian and Harlem Hospitals, New York. He did a Fellowship in Plastic Surgery at Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Ferdinand Ofodile designed a NASAL IMPLANT FOR RHINOPLASTY in Blacks and Hispanics, named the “Ofodile Implant” after his name. The Implants are designed to produce more natural results that fit the black and Hispanic features. This implant was created by Surgiform.com of South Carolina (1-866-225-5785) .
Dr. Ofodile has published numerous scientific articles in plastic surgery and presented scientific plastic surgery papers in many international conferences.
::: Dr. Ofodile is an active member of several societies, including:
* American Society of Plastic Surgeons
* American Association of Plastic Surgeons (Fellow)
* American College of Surgeons (Fellow)
* New York Regional Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
He has received several awards and has been named one of “America’s Top Physicians” by the Consumers’ Research Council of America and “Top African American Doctor” by the Network Journal.
Dr. Ofodile has led volunteer medical missions to several parts of the world, including the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nigeria and Mozambique.
Dr Chidubem Osuji
Dr Chinedum Osuji Ph.D.
Assistant Profesor of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering and Apllied Sciences, Yale University, New Haven CT.
Research Interest : Dynamics of complex fluids, rheology, polymer material science.
Manny Aniegbonam
Prof. Manny C Aniebonam is the National President of the Nigerian IT Professionals in the Americas (NITPA), a U.S- based organization of diverse Information Technology practitioners in the Diaspora. He is currently on the faculty of the George Washington University Computer Information Systems, Management Science Department, in Washington DC USA.
A graduate of the George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Dr. Aniebonam’s background is deeply rooted in the Information Technology industry. .
Chidi Achebe
He is currently an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Chidi Achebe – MD, MPH, MBA President & CEO
Dr. Chidi Achebe completed undergraduate studies in natural sciences, history and philosophy at Bard College; received an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, his MD at Dartmouth Medical School and an MBA degree at Yale University’s School of Management.
He also completed his residency in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX.
He has held the position of Medical Director at Whittier Street health center, Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, and is currently the President and CEO of the Harvard St. Health Center.
After several years of work at various Boston health centers, Dr Achebe now sees “the struggle against inequalities in health and health care for all vulnerable, underserved Americans, as the next stage of the Civil Rights movement;” and has dedicated his life’s work to helping to solve the conundrum of health care inequity in America’s health care system.
Dr Achebe makes church calls, and speaks at youth summits, conventions, conferences, schools, barber shops – focal gathering areas where he can reach underserved patients – reminding the community of the value of health, preventive care, and the quality of service readily available at Harvard Street.
While expanding his unique implementation of “medicine without borders,” Achebe works as a passionate advocate for the global community through his writings that call attention to worldwide health concerns such as the HIV/AIDs pandemic and Prostate Cancer.
His efforts have earned him a featured TV appearance on Basic Black; profile in the Boston Globe and AOL Black Voices, an interview on WUMB-FM’s Commonwealth Journal (interviewed by the legendary Barbara Neely); and feature length articles in several international periodicals, journals, and newspapers.
Ofodike Ezekoye
Professor Ofodike Ezekoye Ph.D., is a
Professor of Mechanical Engineering , University of Texas at Austin
Expertise in High Temperature Combustion and heat transfer
Research Funded by DOE, NASA, Texas Dept of Transportation.
Werner W Dorn Besser Teaching Fellow.
Research : Combustion systems and fire fighting tactics.
Chukwu Nwakuche Ethelbert
He currently is Tenured Professor of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA since 1998 to date, formerly,
administrator , mathematician, author, researcher, university teacher; Born November 22, 1940 in Eastern Nigeria, West Africa; Married and has six children
Education : BS, Brown University, RI, USA, Applied Mathematics: 1965, MS, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Eastern Nigeria, 1972, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Mathematics
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