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Kenneth R, Poeppelmeier was born on October 6th, 1949 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He studied chemistry at the University of Missouri, Columbia from 1967 to 1971 (B.S. Chemistry). From 1971 to 1974 he was an Instructor in Chemistry at Samoa College in Western Samoa as a United States Peace Corps volunteer. He joined the research group of John Corbett at Iowa State University after leaving the Peace Corps, and received his Ph.D. in 1978. He i. , 1 I then joined the research staff of Ex-... [Pg.375]

One of the missions of the Peace Corps is to help the people of interested countries meet their need for trained men and women. People who work for the Peace Corps do so because they want to, but to keep the agency dynamic with fresh ideas, no staff member can work for the agency for more than five years. [Pg.64]

The paragraph best supports the statement that Peace Corps... [Pg.64]

Graduate, Postdoctoral Partnership Program with Southern University Science Education Program with Peace Corps Michigan Technological University James Mihelcic... [Pg.44]

Joseph J. Breen was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on July 22, 1942. He earned his bachelor s degree from Fairfield University in 1964 and his doctorate in chemistry from Duke University in 1972. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and for two years in the Peace Corps before accepting an appointment at the EPA in 1979. During his tenure at the EPA, Breen was also an adjunct professor in environmental chemistry at Hood College, in Frederick, Maryland, and at Trinity College and American University in Washington, D.C. [Pg.182]

Interviews with a psychiatrist for anything other than routing screening, e.g., peace corps selection, etc. [Pg.259]

I knew that Rebecca served in the Peace Corps as a health volunteer in sub-Saharan Africa before moving out to Davis, but we had not yet had a chance to talk about her experiences. I thought her comment was kind of funny because Burkina Faso was known to be hot and dry. So I ask for an explanation. [Pg.148]

Veriditas (Pseudonym for R. Montgomery andFi. Rheingold) 19S9. Botanical Peace Corps Whole Earth Review 6y. 26—29. [Pg.295]

We have recently reported the effects of the inadvertent ingestion of excess iodine in drinking water by Peace Corps workers in Niger, West Africa and by astronauts in the US... [Pg.937]

American Peace Corps Volunteers in Niger, West Africa (Pearce et a/., 2002)... [Pg.938]

Correction of iodine excess due to a faulty iodinator in a group of American Peace Corps volunteers in Niger, West Africa, restored normal thyroid function and a decrease in goiter prevalence. [Pg.939]

And what is to be the future of the human race, as arranged by psychiatrists Well, of course that will really depend on their masters. Give us a healthy world, in the full sense, declares Sargent Shriver, former director of the Peace Corps, and subsequently director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and Communism w ill disappear from the earth in every sense. - This, of course, is not the goal of Lebedev and his Soviet employers. Nor, as we shall see, is it the goal of the American community mental health workers. Indeed, by juxtaposing Shriver s views on mental health and... [Pg.221]

Quoted ill Martin Gansberg, Peace Corps sets world health aid. New York Times, Nov. 16, 1964, p. 1. [Pg.341]

Zantop, Suzanne. 1997. Colonial Fantasies Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1110—1810. Durham, N.C. Duke University Press. Zimmerman, Jonathan. 1999. Crossing Oceans, Crossing Colors Black Peace Corps Volunteers and Interracial Love in Africa, 1961-1971. In Martha Hodes (ed.). Sex, Love, Race Crossing Boundaries in North American History. New York New York University Press. [Pg.325]

Out of this vision, powerful institutions of international development emerged snch as World Bank, hitemational Monetary Fnnd (IMF), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Peace Corps. All of these either employed engineers or fnnded engineering projects in private companies contracted to carry ont development projects. [Pg.228]

Sonja Krause, obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley in 1957. She worked as a Senior Physical Chemist at the Rohm and Haas Company until 1964 when she joined the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching for two years in Universities in Nigeria and Ethiopia. She then taught for one year at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and has been at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presently as Professor of Physical Chemistry, since 1967. Her research interests include polymer-polymer miscibility, phase-separated polymer systems, small-angle scattering, and transient electric birefringence of macromolecules in solution. [Pg.629]


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