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Episodes
1 - How does Astrophysics Relate to the Millennium Development Goals? Climate Change?……….. Muriel Talks with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, Director of the Hayden Planetarium.
“When I see that list (of goals), at all times I am thinking of ways that the methods, tools and sheer power of the scientific enterprise can resolve those problems”, Tyson, July 2010. Listen to Dr. Tyson as he speaks on HIV/Aids and Cultural Attitudes; the Possibility of Asteroids colliding with earth in the Indian [...]
2 - Yakkers Corner Muriel Strolls Down Memory Lane with Dr. Padmini, Former Executive of UNICEF, Part 4
After a sterling 20 years of service to UNICEF, working in India, Ethiopia, and New York, Dr. Padmini retired from UNICEF in 1994. The positions she filled ranged from Program/Planning Officer and Representative, to Chief, Middle East and North African section and Senior Adviser and Chief , Urban and Children in Difficult Circumstances section. This [...]
3 - Yakkers Corner Muriel Strolls Down Memory Lane with Dr. Padmini, Former Executive of UNICEF, Part 3
After a sterling 20 years of service to UNICEF, working in India, Ethiopia, and New York, Dr. Padmini retired from UNICEF in 1994. The positions she filled ranged from Program/Planning Officer and Representative, to Chief, Middle East and North African section and Senior Adviser and Chief , Urban and Children in Difficult Circumstances section. This [...]
4 - Yakkers Corner Muriel Strolls Down Memory Lane with Dr. Padmini, Former Executive of UNICEF, Part 2
After a sterling 20 years of service to UNICEF, working in India, Ethiopia, and New York, Dr. Padmini retired from UNICEF in 1994. The positions she filled ranged from Program/Planning Officer and Representative, to Chief, Middle East and North African section and Senior Adviser and Chief , Urban and Children in Difficult Circumstances section. This [...]
5 - Yakkers Corner Muriel Strolls Down Memory Lane with Dr. Padmini, Former Executive of UNICEF, Part 1
After a sterling 20 years of service to UNICEF, working in India, Ethiopia, and New York, Dr. Padmini retired from UNICEF in 1994. The positions she filled ranged from Program/Planning Officer and Representative, to Chief, Middle East and North African section and Senior Adviser and Chief , Urban and Children in Difficult Circumstances section. This [...]
6 - Yakkers Corner Welcomes Professor Diran Makinde; Director of the African Biosafety Network of Expertise
Professor Diran Makinde is the Director, NEPAD Agency (A Program of African Union) African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE) based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He is the immediate past Director of the NEPAD West African Biosciences Network in Dakar, Senegal. He earned the degrees of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1976, and a PhD in [...]
7 - Yakkers Corner Welcomes Fouad Kronfol, UNICEF (Retired) Part 3
Fouad Kronfol took early retirement from UNICEF in 1995, having served in the Organization from March 1959. His career started in Beirut, Lebanon where, as one of the earliest National Officers he learned programming skills dealing with activities supported by UNICEF in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia. His international experience began in 1970 with [...]
8 - Yakkers Corner Welcomes Fouad Kronfol, UNICEF (Retired) Part 2
Fouad Kronfol took early retirement from UNICEF in 1995, having served in the Organization from March 1959. His career started in Beirut, Lebanon where, as one of the earliest National Officers he learned programming skills dealing with activities supported by UNICEF in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia. His international experience began in 1970 with [...]
9 - Yakkers Corner Welcomes Fouad Kronfol, UNICEF (Retired) Part 1
Fouad Kronfol took early retirement from UNICEF in 1995, having served in the Organization from March 1959. His career started in Beirut, Lebanon where, as one of the earliest National Officers he learned programming skills dealing with activities supported by UNICEF in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia. His international experience began in 1970 with [...]
10 - Yakkers Corner Welcomes Karin Sham Poo, Deputy Executive Director UNICEF (retired) Part 2
Part 2 with Ms. Sham Poo retired from UNICEF in December 2004 as Deputy Executive Director having been appointed to this position in 1987 after joining the organization in 1985 as Comptroller. Ms. Sham Poo served as UNICEF Special Envoy to the Caribbean on a part-time basis residing in Trinidad and Tobago from 2004-2009. In [...]
