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As the global population is projected to rise from 8.2 to 10.2 billion by century’s end—driven largely by growth in sub-Saharan Africa—historians and demographers are re-examining the colonial and...
We study the chemical biology, physiology, and therapeutic effects of nitric oxide (NO) and related reactive nitrogen oxides. NO is a central signaling molecule involved in the regulation of cardiovascular...
My project explores the aesthetics, ethics and politics of literary witnessing in five auto/biographical texts from the S-21 detention centre in Cambodia in relation to the politics of representation and...
A primary challenge to 21st century global climate predictability is understanding the ocean’s role as a heat and carbon sink or source to the atmosphere. The Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica absorbs...
This research project returns to and reconsiders the many representations of prison experience by political prisoners under apartheid, comparing them to new memoirs published since 2000. These include...
We will use di0erent approaches to clarify what initiates an autoimmune disease and to devise better treatment:
In autoimmune diseases B- and T-cells are directed against our tissues. We will sequence...
The abnormal processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP), aggregation of Aβ, Tau hyper phosphorylation and propagation of these abnormally folded proteins have been collectively recognized as hallmarks...
During this last half century of global expansion in higher education, attention focused on the population of “first-generation students”: those whose parents had not been to university. But this concept...
The resurgence of race in genomic research has renewed longstanding debates about the biological basis of human difference, raising urgent ethical questions about how science reanimates and recodes the...
Positioned as fathers of Pan-Africanism on the continent, and hailed as heroes in the 21st century Nyerere and Nkrumah are two of the most highly regarded leaders of the independence era. African Studies...
The recent history of infectious diseases has shown that the number of epidemics and pandemics resul2ng from spillovers of animal viruses to humans is increasing. There is consensus that some of this increase...
West African Pidgin (“Pidgin”) is a group of related, mutually intelligible varieties that emerged from contact between English and African languages in coastal West Africa. Spoken by only a few thousand...