Sun-News report
POSTED: 04/16/2015 01:00:00 AM MDT
On March 21, the Nepalese Students Association at New Mexico State University successfully organized a day-long seventh international conference with a theme "Strategic Partnership between Diaspora and Homeland." The students and guest from University of New Mexico, NMSU and University of Texas at El Paso presented their research work in the program. Keynote speaker was Dr. Gyanu Lamichhane from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The Nepalese Students Association at NMSU successfully organized a day-long seventh international conference with a theme "Strategic Partnership between Diaspora and Homeland" on March 21. The students and guest from University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University and University of Texas at El Paso presented their research work in the program.
In the opening session of the conference, distinguished guests provost Dr. Cornell Menking, graduate dean Dr. Louy Reyes and head of chemistry department Dr. William Quintana gave welcome speeches. The program hosted by the conference coordinator Rishi R. Sapkota started with the participant singing the national anthems of Nepal and United States of America. NeSA vice-president Uttar Kumar Shrestha read the message of good wishes from Dr. Ambika P. Adhikari, Research Professor at Arizona State University.
Rajan Koirala, the president of NeSA chaired the program and welcomed all the participants on behalf of NeSA. Students presented their research work in the first and second sessions while third session was dedicated to the talk related to Nepal for the guest speakers. In the first and second sessions of the conference, Eshan Dahal, Zheng (David) Wei, Rishi Sapkota, Melody Handali, Roshani Rajbanshi, Sudip Gaire, Erika Y. Monroy, Deepak Basyal, Menuka Karki, all from NMSU, and Sarvesh Dhakal, Sanjay Timilsina, Mukunda Acharya and Prajwal Tamrakar, all from UTEP, presented their work. In the third session, guest speaker and young scientist Dr.Basanta Giri, Kathmandu, Institute of Science and Technology, who recently returned to Nepal from USA focused his presentation on the challenges and opportunities of scientific research in Nepal. Other guest speakers included Dr. Ramesh Giri and Dr. Doleshwor Bhandari, UNM; Dr. Paras Mandal, UTEP; Dr. Steven Archambault, NMSU; and Dr. Madan R. Paudel, Gallup, also discussed the role of diaspora to help solve developmental challenges in Nepal specifically related to electric power, agriculture, education and health care management.
Keynote speaker Dr. Gyanu Lamichhane from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine gave a talk on the partnership between Diasporas and native land.
NeSA advisors Dr. Ram Acharya and Dr. Anup Amatya distributed the certificates of appreciation to all the speakers and guest speakers. The Program was concluded with the thank you message from Sapkota followed by dinner. The eighth NeSA conference will take place on March 12, 2016.
