scholarly journals Review Essay: Enlightenment Lost?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Walter C. Clemens Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Sturm Und Drang ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Policy Institute ◽  
The University

Lost Enlightenment and Polymaths of Islam, each analyzing a different but linked period of Central Asian civilization, is each a masterwork of scholarship. Each author, now at a different stage in his academic career, has put to good use a bevy of languages to unveil the achievements of societies and ways of life smothered by the Sturm und Drang of life including great power aggressions. S. Frederick Starr has led Soviet as well as Central Asian research institutes based in Washington, D.C. He was the first director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and later the founding chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, now affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Institute. James Pickett is Assistant Professor of Eurasian History at the University of Pittsburgh. Each author has done research in Russia and Central Asia.

scholarly journals The Central Asian Journal of Global Health to Increase Scientific Productivity

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Freese ◽  
Eugene Shubnikov ◽  
Ron LaPorte ◽  
Shalkar Adambekov ◽  
Sholpan Askarova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
English Language ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The University

The WHO Collaborating Center at the University of Pittsburgh, USA partnering with Nazarbayev University, developed the Central Asian Journal of Global Health (CAJGH, cajgh.pitt.edu) in order to increase scientific productivity in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Scientists in this region often have difficulty publishing in upper tier English language scientific journals due to language barriers, high publication fees, and a lack of access to mentoring services. CAJGH seeks to help scientists overcome these challenges by providing peer-reviewed publication free of change with English and research mentoring services available to selected authors.CAJGH began as a way to expand the Supercourse scientific network (www.pitt.edu/~super1) in the Central Asian region in order to rapidly disseminate educational materials. The network began with approximately 60 individuals in five Central Asian countries and has grown to over 1,300 in a few short years. The CAJGH website receives nearly 900 visits per month.The University of Pittsburgh's “open access publishing system” was utilized to create CAJGH in 2012. There are two branches of the CAJGH editorial board: Astana (at the Center for Life Sciences, Nazarbayev University) and Pittsburgh (WHO Collaborating Center). Both are comprised of leading scientists and expert staff who work together throughout the review and publication process. Two complete issues have been published since 2012 and a third is now underway. Even though CAJGH is a new journal, the editorial board uses a rigorous review process; fewer than 50% of all submitted articles are forwarded to peer review or accepted for publication. Furthermore, in 2014, CAJGH will apply to be cross referenced in PubMed and Scopes.CAJGH is one of the first English language journals in the Central Asian region that reaches a large number of scientists. This journal fills a unique niche that will assist scientists in Kazakhstan and Central Asia publish their research findings and share their knowledge with others around the region and the world.

scholarly journals Public Diplomacy as an Instrument for Obtaining Foreign Policy Goals of the USA in Central Asia

2018 ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
B. Bahriev
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Regional Environment ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Usa

The article deals with the features of public diplomacy resource’ application in US foreign policy in Central Asia. The author claims that American public diplomacy which has been actively working in the region since the collapse of the USSR appears to be an important instrument of achievement of not only regional, but also global objectives of the USA. Despite a certain de-emphasis on the Central Asian direction in the American foreign policy at the present stage, the rising Russian public diplomacy activity and increasing Chinese influence in the region forces Americans to look for public diplomacy response in order to secure their positions in this important, from geopolitical viewpoint and energy resource perspective, region. The aforementioned tendencies shape a competitive regional environment for implementation of public diplomacy.

scholarly journals Features of the US Foreign Policy Towards the Central Asian States

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
E. V. Kryzhko ◽  
P. I. Pashkovsky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Us

The article examines the features of the US foreign policy towards the Central Asian states in the post-bipolar period. The imperatives and constants, as well as the transformation of Washington’s Central Asian policy, have been characterized. It is shown that five Central Asian states have been in the focus of American foreign policy over the past thirty years. In the process of shaping the US foreign policy in Central Asia, the presence of significant reserves of energy and mineral resources in the region was of great importance. Therefore, rivalry for Caspian energy resources and their transportation routes came to the fore. In addition to diversifying transport and logistics flows and supporting American companies, the US energy policy in Central Asia was aimed at preventing the restoration of Russia’s economic and political influence, as well as countering the penetration of China, which is interested in economic cooperation with the countries of the region. During the period under review, the following transformation of mechanisms and means of Washington’s policy in the Central Asian direction was observed: the policy of “exporting democracy”; attempts to “nurture” the pro-American elite; striving to divide states into separate groups with permanent “appointment” of leaders; involvement in a unified military system to combat terrorism; impact on the consciousness of the population in order to destabilize geopolitical rivals; building cooperation on a pragmatic basis due to internal difficulties and external constraints. Central Asian states sympathized with the American course because of their interest in technology and investment. At the same time, these states in every possible way distanced themselves from the impulses of “democratization” from Washington. Kazakhstan was a permanent regional ally of the United States, to which Uzbekistan was striving to join. The second echelon in relations with the American side was occupied by Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. A feature of the positions of the Central Asian countries is the maximum benefit from cooperation with Washington while building good-neighborly relations with Russia and China, which is in dissonance with the regional imperatives of the United States. In the future, the American strategy in Central Asia will presumably proceed from the expediency of attracting regional allies and stimulating contradictions in order to contain geopolitical rivals in the region.

Central Asia, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and American Foreign Policy

Asian Survey ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 484-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Shanghai Cooperation Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
Central Asian

This paper examines U.S. engagement in Central Asia over the past two decades, with specific reference to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. While alarmist voices occasionally warn of the threat to American interests from China and Russia through the SCO, the organization’s influence appears limited. Washington has engaged it only sporadically, preferring to conduct relations bilaterally with the Central Asian states.

Archibald Read Richardson, 1881-1954

1955 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 223-237
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
South African War ◽  
Pure Mathematics ◽  
College Course ◽  
Aeronautical Science ◽  
Matriculation Examination ◽  
The University

Archibald Read Richardson was born on 21 August 1881 of English parents: he was the eldest of five children and was dearly loved by the whole family. The greater part of his life before he went to Swansea in 1920 was spent in London where he began his academic career in 1903 as an engineering student at the Royal College of Science. As a volunteer (probably under age) he had already served in the South African war, on one occasion during which members of his troop, although unable to swim, had to get their horses over the flooded Tugela river at midnight. His college course, 1903- 1907, was one of sustained distinction, and he developed an interest in pure mathematics which attracted the attention of his teachers, particularly of Professor L. N. G. Filon, who wished to appoint him forthwith to his staff as an assistant in mathematics. But Richardson, it would appear, was not yet a member of the University of London; and to become a lecturer required his passing the next matriculation examination: this done he was duly appointed. Three years later he obtained First Class Honours in the external examination. From 1912 to 1914 he was assistant professor in mathematics at the Imperial College, which had been formed by the amalgamation of the Royal College of Science, the Royal School of Mines, and the City and Guilds Engineering College. In August 1914 he left for war service and returned in April 1919. In August 1920 he became Professor of Aeronautical Science at the Cadet College, Cranwell; and shortly afterwards, in October 1920, he was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics in the University College of Swansea, the newly created constituent college of the University of Wales. This post he held for twenty years until he was compelled to resign in 1940 on account of increasing ill health, when he retired to Cape Town, but continued to prosecute research until shortly before his death in 1954. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946.

scholarly journals 2017 Sowing the “CEED”s of a more diverse biomedical workforce

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (S1) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Colleen A. Mayowski ◽  
Kaleab Z. Abebe ◽  
Natalia E. Morone ◽  
Doris M. Rubio ◽  
Wishwa N. Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Health Care Research ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Leaky Pipeline ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Research Workforce ◽  
The University

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: The need to diversify the biomedical research workforce is well documented. The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE) promotes success and helps seal the “leaky pipeline” for under-represented background (URB) biomedical researchers with a purposefully designed program consisting of a monthly seminar series, multilevel mentoring, targeted coursework, and networking. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Over 10 program years, we collected survey data on characteristics of CEED Scholars, such as race, ethnicity, and current position. We created a matched set of URB trainees not enrolled in CEED during that time using propensity score matching in a 1:1 ratio. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Since 2007, CEED has graduated 45 Scholars. Seventy-six percent have been women, 78% have been non-White, and 33% have been Hispanic/Latino. Scholars include 20 M.D.s and 25 Ph.D.s. Twenty-eight CEED Scholars were matched to non-CEED URB students. Compared with matched URB students, CEED graduates had a higher mean number of peer-reviewed publications (9.25 vs. 5.89; p<0.0001) were more likely to hold an assistant professor position (54% vs. 14%; p=0.004) and be in the tenure stream (32% vs. 7%; p=0.04), respectively. There were no differences in Career Development Awards (p=0.42) or Research Project Grants (p=0.24). DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Programs that support URB researchers can help expand and diversify the biomedical research workforce. CEED has been successful despite the challenges of a small demographic pool. Further efforts are needed to assist URB researchers to obtain grant awards.

Blockchain Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Bonnie Lawlor
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Storage Mechanism ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The University

AbstractI first heard of blockchain technology at a conference in 2017 when Christopher Wilmer, Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Managing Editor of Ledger, [1] gave a presentation on the technology. While he did mention Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with which the technology was originally associated, Wilmer’s talk explained how his journal uses blockchain for proof-of-publication. He commented that as a data-storage mechanism, “blockchains are well-suited to be used in scholarly publishing because they are extremely resilient, tamper-proof, practically indestructible databases; there is no single point of failure or cost of operation; and there is an incontrovertible proof-of-publication date, even across countries and institutions whose incentives are not aligned (which is sometimes a point of contention for scientists racing to discover cure/new theorem/etc.)” [2].

Alfred William Porter, 1863 - 1939

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 87-88
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Partial Recovery ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
Oliver Lodge ◽  
The University ◽  
Serious Injuries

Alfred William Porter died on 11 January 1939 at West Kirby, Cheshire, to which place he had removed after partial recovery from serious injuries sustained about a year earlier in a street accident in London, where he had spent most of his life. He was born on 12 November 1863, and in his early years lived in Liverpool. He began training as an architect, but, his interest in physics having been stimulated by association with Oliver Lodge, he began to study this subject seriously and entered upon an academic career at the age of twenty-seven. He was a student first at Liverpool University College and later at University College, London, graduating there in 1890. In the same year he became a demonstrator in the Physics Department, and thus began an association with University College, London, which was uninterrupted until his retirement in 1928 with the title of Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of London. During this long association he served under four Professors— Carey Foster, H. L. Callendar, F. T. Trouton and W. H. Bragg —as Assistant Professor. He was elected a Fellow of University College in 1897, and was appointed University Reader in Thermodynamics in 1912. It was not until 1923 that he himself became Professor in the Department to which he had devoted so much of his energy.

Virgins As a Risk Group the Representation of Suicide

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (6) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
David Roy
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
The University

From Autothanasia to Suicide–Self-killing in Classical Antiquity, by Anton J. L van Hooff, is published by Routledge, London (£35, 306 pp., 1990). This is the first book by this author who is a senior lecturer in ancient history at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands. Suicide over the Life Cycle, edited by Susan T. Blumenthal and David J. Kupfer, is published by American Psychiatric Press, Washington. DC (£55.95, 799 pp., 1990). Dr Blumenthal is Chief of the Behavioural Medicine Unit and former head of the Suicide Research Unit in Maryland. Dr Kupfer is Professor and Chairman at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Youth Suicide, edited by Peter Cimbolic and David Jobes, is published by Charles A. Thomas, Illinois ($26.75, 122 pp., 1990), Dr Cimbolic is Director of the Counselling Centre at the Catholic University, and Associate Professor of Psychology. Dr Jobes is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Catholic University,

scholarly journals Sowing the “CEED”s of a more diverse biomedical workforce: The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Kaleab Z. Abebe ◽  
Natalia E. Morone ◽  
Colleen A. Mayowski ◽  
Doris M. Rubio ◽  
Wishwa K. Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Career Education ◽  
Health Care Research ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Care Research ◽  
Research Workforce ◽  
The University

AbstractPurpose:The need to diversify the biomedical research workforce is well documented. The importance of fostering the careers of fledgling underrepresented background (URB) biomedical researchers is evident in light of the national and local scarcity of URB scientists in biomedical research. The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE) was designed to promote career success and help seal the “leaky pipeline” for URB researchers. In this study, we aimed to quantify CEED’s effect on several key outcomes by comparing CEED Scholars to a matched set of URB ICRE trainees not enrolled in CEED using data collected over 10 years.Method:We collected survey data on CEED Scholars from 2007 to 2017 and created a matched set of URB trainees not enrolled in CEED using propensity score matching in a 1:1 ratio. Poisson regression was used to compare the rate of publications between CEED and non-CEED URB trainees after adjusting for baseline number of publications.Results:CEED has 45 graduates. Seventy-six percent are women, 78% are non-White, and 33% are Hispanic/Latino. Twenty-four CEED Scholars were matched to non-CEED URB trainees. Compared to matched URB trainees, CEED graduates had more peer-reviewed publications (p=0.0261) and were more likely to be an assistant professor (p=0.0145).Conclusions:Programs that support URB researchers can help expand and diversify the biomedical research workforce. CEED has been successful despite the challenges of a small demographic pool.

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