Maria Guiomar Nates-Parra: biographical sketch and summary of contributions to the melittological knowledge of Colombia

Journal of Melittology ◽

10.17161/jom.v0i6.4467 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Victor H. Gonzalez ◽

Michael S. Engel

Keyword(s):

Academic Career ◽

Biographical Sketch ◽

65Th Birthday ◽

Science And Education

A brief account of some aspects of the academic career of Maria Guiomar Nates-Parra, a Colombian bee biologist who pioneered melittological research in her country, is presented here as a small tribute on the occasion of her 65th birthday. A summary of her contributions to science and education is provided.

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An Intellectual in the Corridors of Power

Journal of Foreign Affairs ◽

10.3126/jofa.v1i1.36258 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 207-217

Author(s):

Jaya Raj Acharya

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Academic Career ◽

International Community ◽

Biographical Sketch ◽

Literary Critic ◽

Great Scholar

Introduction: A reviewer of my book Yadu Nath Khanal: Jivani ra Vichar (Yadu Nath Khanal: Life and Thoughts) wrote: “Prithvi Narayan Shah unified Nepal, Bhanubhakta Acharya standardised Nepali language and Yadu Nath Khanal intellectualised Nepal’s foreign policy”. Indeed Professor Yadu Nath Khanal made outstanding contributions in explaining Nepal’s foreign policy to the international community in modern terminology. His thoughts on Nepal, Nepali literature and Nepal’s foreign policy are compiled in a book Nepal’s Non-Isolationist Foreign Policy (Kathmandu: Satyal Prakashan, 2000) that has 100 articles divided into five sections. Professor Khanal was a scholar, literary critic and successful practitioner as well as a thinker of Nepal’s foreign policy. But above all, he was an intellectual par excellence. I will begin this biographical sketch of Professor Khanal with his birth and academic career and conclude it with an extract from Professor Kamal P. Malla (1936-2018), himself a great scholar, who described Professor Khanal as “an intellectual in the corridors of power”.

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