Awardees of the 2021 IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award for Advancements in Green Chemistry

We are delighted to announce the 2021 recipients of the established IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award for Advancements in Green Chemistry. We congratulate Gabriele Laudadio from the Scripps Research Institute, Lichen Liu from Tsinghua University, and Jingxiang Low from University of Science and Technology of China as the early career award winners, and David Milstein from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel for the experienced chemist award.

The Thematic Analysis of Scourge of Dowry in Dina Mehta’s Brides Are Not For Burning

Dina Mehta is a prolific writer, has distinguished herself as a playwright for the stage, radio, and television. She has been awarded several prizes, notably an international award from the BBC. He daringly expressed the women issues in her plays. Her play Brides are not for Burning bring out the post-colonial issue related to the existence of women in the country. It reveals the fact that women are still burning in a flames under a patriarchal system. The issue of dehumanization is dealt here with in realistic consideration. This paper aims to bring out the scourge of dowry and how it is role played in the patriarchal society.

Duke of Edinburgh International Award Accomplishment and Academic Achievement: A Two Year Study in a Malaysian International School

The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is a non-formal outdoor education and learning framework that is mentioned frequently and widely in publications, however, little or no literature have compared the impact of DofE completion to students’ academic accomplishment. This study looks at the hours of contribution in the DofE program and individual participants studying in Fairview International School on a two-year time frame and its relationship with their academic achievement on the exit exam. Spearman correlation indicates the hours contributed by the students in the Service section of the DofE could be correlated to their academic accomplishment in English and Business Subjects. Clustering Analysis also indicates that students that contribute similar hours in their DofE also tend to perform similarly in their IGCSE results. Thus, we speculated that DofE could be good intermediary training for the student’s executive functions, and the peer network created pursuing the DofE process also allows them to gain useful social capital that allows them to succeed academically

Duke of Edinburgh International Award Accomplishment and Academic Achievement: A Two Year Study in a Malaysian International School

The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is a non-formal outdoor education and learning framework that is mentioned frequently and widely in publications, however, little or no literature have compared the impact of DofE completion to students’ academic accomplishment. This study looks at the hours of contribution in the DofE program and individual participants studying in Fairview International School on a two-year time frame and its relationship with their academic achievement on the exit exam. Spearman correlation indicates the hours contributed by the students in the Service section of the DofE could be correlated to their academic accomplishment in English and Business Subjects. Clustering Analysis also indicates that students that contribute similar hours in their DofE also tend to perform similarly in their IGCSE results. Thus, we speculated that DofE could be good intermediary training for the student’s executive functions, and the peer network created pursuing the DofE process also allows them to gain useful social capital that allows them to succeed academically

Winners of the 2021 IUPAC-Solvay International Award For Young Chemists

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and Solvay announce the winners of the 2021 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists, presented for the best Ph.D. theses in the chemical sciences, as described in 1000-word essays.