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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by Nobody: 5:35pm On May 04, 2015
Yoruba know book sha, follow by Igbo,


proudly Nigeria..


at least we gat 2 people from SS deer ...

Lol #biggrin
Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by jumialaunch: 5:35pm On May 04, 2015
Nice
Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by raumdeuter: 5:36pm On May 04, 2015
Dabiri

[img]http://dabiri.caltech.edu/graphics/dabiri3.jpg[/img]

John Dabiri is a Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering at Caltech and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow. He graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree summa cum laude in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2001. He came to Caltech as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, Gordon and Betty Moore Fellow, and Y.C. Fung Fellow in Bioengineering, earning an M.S. degree in Aeronautics in 2003, followed by a Ph.D. in Bioengineering with a minor in Aeronautics in 2005. He subsequently joined the Caltech faculty. His honors include an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his research in bio-inspired propulsion. Popular Science magazine named him one of its "Brilliant 10" scientists in 2008. For his research in bio-inspired wind energy, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its Technology Innovators in 2012, and the MIT Technology Review magazine named him one of its 35 innovators under 35 in 2013. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He served as the Chair of the Faculty at Caltech from 2013-2014, and he is currently the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by manny4life(m): 5:36pm On May 04, 2015
ziqqz:


Otu nna m
Dan iska kowai
Ori e....
Imbe.cile!

Your foolishness is legendary....
Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by Nobody: 5:37pm On May 04, 2015
#keduAMerica
Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by Saved2Serve: 5:37pm On May 04, 2015
[size=18pt]IGBO KWENU!!! WARR!![/size]

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by apasino01: 5:38pm On May 04, 2015
ziqqz:
Hm! The Ibo tribe...
Outbraining Nigeria since -100,000BC
we Good meeeeen in any way u want it. Good or bad

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by InvertedHammer: 5:38pm On May 04, 2015
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These are the only ones you know. There are too many of them.

Btw, some of the universities you mentioned are not among the world top universities.
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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by twosquare(m): 5:38pm On May 04, 2015
OP(missclasssy) fall my hand big time!!! That list is watery without the super-academicians like Abiola Irele, Biodun Jeyifo, Pius Adesanmi et al....see ya list...though good but not enought..can sight Isidore Okpewho...but u no even mention Tanure Ojaide...shioor!!!

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by BSF: 5:38pm On May 04, 2015
That Profesor Olukotun is a Genius. He supervised me on my MSc project @ AUST. He is a native of Ogun State

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by iwriterng(m): 5:39pm On May 04, 2015
So we don't have renowned biomedical scientist from Nigeria?

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by manny4life(m): 5:39pm On May 04, 2015
tonychristopher:
but he said the fact...i thought igbos ARE TRADERS...Hmm what happened

ah ah what happen na


no mind me, just that i have comer to believe igbos are good




You guys wonder why things remain the same way... Please help me understand how he means by Igbo outbraining other Nigerians? You cause enmity and then run to say people hate you... Can't you just congratulate them and move on?

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by raumdeuter: 5:39pm On May 04, 2015
FEMI OLOWOLAFE

B.Sc in physics University of Ife in Nigeria; M.S California Institute of Technology and

Ph.D (Applied Physics) California Institute of Technology

: Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware

URL: http://www.ece.udel.edu/~olowolaf/index.html
email:

RESEARCH

He has 7 patents and has contributed to over 100 journal papers and technical papers.

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by SirShymexx: 5:40pm On May 04, 2015
Only three or four of the ones you listed are in top Universities.

And just two of them are distinguished.

I can compile a better list than this one with my eyes closed.

If this list is anything to go by, then there is absolutely nothing to celebrate.

However, there are far more distinguished Nigerian academics in top Universities than the ones you listed.

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by opribo(m): 5:40pm On May 04, 2015
Why is there no notherner in the list. This is sacrilegious is it that it is only when it comes to Nigerian politics that we will find them struggling for power. Upon all the scholarships and bursary they have been collecting why are they like this.

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by garamah: 5:41pm On May 04, 2015
Big up men, I'm on my way coming behind you guys, in the next 10-15 years you people will hear my name by God's grace.

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by Nobody: 5:42pm On May 04, 2015
My role models
Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by SirShymexx: 5:43pm On May 04, 2015
raumdeuter:
Dabiri

[img]http://dabiri.caltech.edu/graphics/dabiri3.jpg[/img]

John Dabiri is a Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering at Caltech and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow. He graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree summa cum laude in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2001. He came to Caltech as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, Gordon and Betty Moore Fellow, and Y.C. Fung Fellow in Bioengineering, earning an M.S. degree in Aeronautics in 2003, followed by a Ph.D. in Bioengineering with a minor in Aeronautics in 2005. He subsequently joined the Caltech faculty. His honors include an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his research in bio-inspired propulsion. Popular Science magazine named him one of its "Brilliant 10" scientists in 2008. For his research in bio-inspired wind energy, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its Technology Innovators in 2012, and the MIT Technology Review magazine named him one of its 35 innovators under 35 in 2013. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He served as the Chair of the Faculty at Caltech from 2013-2014, and he is currently the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

Dabiri and Olukotun shiit on everyone on that list.

Ol'girl just listed mediocre folks in obscure backwater Universities. grin

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by raumdeuter: 5:43pm On May 04, 2015
SirShymexx:
Only three or four of the ones you listed are in top Universities.

And just two of them are distinguished.

I can compile a better list than this one with my eyes closed.

If this list is anything to go by, then there is absolutely nothing to celebrate.

However, there are far more distinguished Nigerian academics in top Universities than the ones you listed.

Shymexx, Check this thread in 2010 with better contributions on the topic

https://www.nairaland.com/567700/nigerian-academia-diaspora

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by tonychristopher: 5:44pm On May 04, 2015
manny4life:



You guys wonder why things remain the same way... Please help me understand how he means by Igbo outbraining other Nigerians? You cause enmity and then run to say people hate you... Can't you just congratulate them and move on?


people can hate igbos but once God loves them to hell with people, Just like they hate isreal but God loves them


Thought they said IGBOS are traders and Igbos do not go to school especially by the so called sophisticated tribe
#


ONE HAS TO BE PROUD OF WHERE HE COMES FROM and that is exactly what that guy is doing....

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by BrosPeters: 5:44pm On May 04, 2015
Very skewed list. The OP purposely put more Igbos on the list

I am an Igbo man living in America and there is ABSOLUTELY no way that there are more Igbo academics than Yoruba academics in Diaspora- that is Yoruba territory!!!!

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by skullbaba: 5:44pm On May 04, 2015
Omo see brain drain. This is one of the things we need to attend to in this country urgently. When our very best are leaving for greaner pasture

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by tonychristopher: 5:45pm On May 04, 2015
where you graduate, who know you


anu mpama

SirShymexx:


Dabiri and Olukotun shiit on everyone on that list.

Ol'girl just listed mediocre folks in obscure backwater Universities. grin

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by AAinEqGuinea: 5:46pm On May 04, 2015
Love this. I really do. I'm happy for Nigerians regardless of tribe and pride cool

maybe with new leadership, more Nigerians could create world renowned scientific breakthroughs from Nigerian institutions alone.

Maybe this month will usher in the beginning of this vision.. I'd visit Nigeria to visit Ilesanmi Adesisa's computer village

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by LordCenturion(m): 5:46pm On May 04, 2015
apasino01:
Some idiotss nogo notice d igbos in the list. If na drug trafficking dem eyes go turn 2 name magnet.

Shut up joor, am very sure that yoruba plenty past igbo, it's just that op is igbo, so he just choose few, remember that he didn't say 1 to 10,he just mention name randomly, am 100% sure that there sentiment in that list, OP trying to paint igbo in good image

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by dayodare49o: 5:46pm On May 04, 2015
Borrussia:
If I get proper education, prolly in Freiburg or Oxford, I'm sure I'll quadruple their achievements.
What about those of us who had never attended school? Can we also become professors?
Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by tonychristopher: 5:46pm On May 04, 2015
Ewu...put the Yorubas na, Look at you look at google


Your busy doing dishes and security, do you think all we be doing dishes like you


BrosPeters:
Very skewed list. The OP purposely put more Igbos on the list

I am an Igbo man living in America and there is ABSOLUTELY no way that there are more Igbo academics than Yoruba academics in Diaspora- that is Yoruba territory!!!!

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by twosquare(m): 5:47pm On May 04, 2015
BrosPeters:
Very skewed list. The OP purposely put more Igbos on the list

I am an Igbo man living in America and there is ABSOLUTELY no way that there are more Igbo academics than Yoruba academics in Diaspora- that is Yoruba territory!!!!

I am not even after tribal this thing but that list is too watery, there are some names like Tanure Ojaide u must hear first before those ones....
Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by tonychristopher: 5:47pm On May 04, 2015
Your sure, give us the list na


Who amongst the sophisticated tribe can outshine prof Chike Obi and Ezilo


LordCenturion:


Shut up joor, am very sure that yoruba plenty past igbo, it's just that op is igbo, so he just choose few, remember that he didn't say 1 to 10,he just mention name randomly, am 100% sure that there sentiment in that list, OP trying to paint igbo in good image

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by IGBOSON1: 5:47pm On May 04, 2015
twosquare:
OP(missclasssy) fall my hand big time!!! That list is watery without the super-academicians like Abiola Irele, Biodun Jeyifo, Pius Adesanmi et al....see ya list...though good but not enought..can sight Isidore Okpewho...but u no even mention Tanure Ojaide...shioor!!!

^^^Well you can add yours! The list is by no means final!!

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by SirShymexx: 5:48pm On May 04, 2015
raumdeuter:


Shymexx, Check this thread in 2010 with better contributions on the topic

https://www.nairaland.com/567700/nigerian-academia-diaspora

I have a crazy list of both US and UK - including patents by Nigerians.

A lot of Nigerians are doing great things in the academic world.

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Re: Successful Nigerian Academics In The Worlds Top Universities. by Nobody: 5:50pm On May 04, 2015
Brain drain everywhere, nothing to be proud of here, this just personal success for them and their family, which benefits America, not Nigeria. In short they will be referred to as Americans, not Nigerians...some people go dey shout Igbo "KWENU", some go they shout Yoruba .. .

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