Day: April 7, 2022

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Black women now lead 3 of Penn’s prestigious law journals. They talk about what other change they’d like to see

Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — When Chayla Sherrod learned she had been selected as the next editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review — the oldest and one of the most prestigious law journals in the country — she was thrilled. Then she found out her law school classmates Simone Hunter-Hobson and Layla June West would be

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AIChE Appoints Darlene S. Schuster as New CEO and Executive Director

New York, NY, April 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Board of Directors of AIChE®, the Global Home of Chemical Engineers, announced today that Darlene S. Schuster, PhD, AIChE’s current Chief of Technical Operations, Membership, and Business Development, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the Institute. An experienced business […]

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Delphix Appoints New Executives to Accelerate Growth

The DevOps Test Data Management company expands its management bench with industry veterans to support its next phase of growth REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Delphix, the industry leader in DevOps Test Data Management (TDM), today announced the appointments of Tammi Warfield to Chief Customer Officer and Alex Hesterberg to Chief […]

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New Gavi Risk Sharing Partnership with MedAccess and the Open Society Foundations to help meet country demand for COVID-19 vaccines

New York, April 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gavi, MedAccess, and the Open Society Foundations announce a new partnership to create an innovative Risk Sharing Facility to support the COVAX Cost-Sharing Mechanism. The partnership aims to build on intensive efforts by Gavi to extend its suite of innovative financing instruments to help donors and countries […]

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Children’s vaccination campaign starts in Zambezi

About 1 300 learners from the Caprivi Senior Secondary School on Wednesday marched in the streets of Katima Mulilo to mark the official launch of the learners’ COVID-19 school vaccination campaign.The campaign, which is being rolled out in all 14 regio…

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WFP Namibia: 2021 Annual Country Report Highlights

A meal a day is a strong incentive for children to go to school and Achieve their Full PotentialDiaz Primary School, in the town of Lüderitz on Namibia’s southwestern coast, is one of more than 1,500 schools in the country providing meals to learners f…

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IAEA Helps Combat Skin Cancer in Namibia

Cancer cases are on the rise in Namibia, including skin cancer – but thanks to a new machine recently donated to the country by the IAEA, improved treatment options are now available. One of the main causes of skin cancer is the sun’s harmful ultravio…

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Putin’s adult children targeted by US sanctions

They were reportedly put under sanctions “for being the adult children of Putin, a person whose property and interests in property are blocked.”The announcement described Ms. Tikhonova as “a tech executive whose work supports the GoR [Russian governmen…

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Geingob welcomes dialogue on Russia-Ukraine conflict

President Hage Geingob has welcomed ongoing dialogue to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, saying Namibia is pained by the horror and devastation that war brings.Delivering the 2022 State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Wednesday, Gein…

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Uzbekistan stops shipping GM cars to Russia

Eurasianet says those cars contain semiconductors and microchips manufactured in South Korea, which has joined Western sanctions imposed on Russia. So if UzAuto had continued to ship the cars to Russia, the plant near Andijan, which has already struggl…

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