Kamran
01 May 2006, 10:11 AM
The Finalists in the 2006 Berkeley Prize Essay Competition are announced.
HERE ARE THE EIGHT FINALISTS FOR THE 2006 BERKELEY PRIZE.
Andrew Amara, of Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Li Kang, of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
TEAM of: Soheil Karagah, Parisa Davachi, Ehsan Noorani, Parima Davachi, and Mohammad Afshar, of Islamic Azad University of Qazvin, Qazvin, Iran
Craig Miller, of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Qurratulain Poonawala, of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan
TEAM of: Sebastien Rake and Carol Bellows, of the University of Oregon, Eugene, United States
Ashween Ramhotar, of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Petrina Yeap, of the National University of Singapore Singapore
The Jury is now reading and deliberating to name winners. Our apologies for the late announcement of the finalists and regret for any inconvenience the late announcement may have caused. The Finalist webpage will be updated soon to reflect these results.
source (http://www.berkeleyprize.org/index.cfm?pg=NEWS&NID=364)
this is the first time that an Iranian team makes it to the finals in this competition and considering the political environment between Iran and the US and the fact that it has affected academic relations before it would be interesting to see the Iranian team winning the prize and reaction it gets.
HERE ARE THE EIGHT FINALISTS FOR THE 2006 BERKELEY PRIZE.
Andrew Amara, of Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Li Kang, of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
TEAM of: Soheil Karagah, Parisa Davachi, Ehsan Noorani, Parima Davachi, and Mohammad Afshar, of Islamic Azad University of Qazvin, Qazvin, Iran
Craig Miller, of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Qurratulain Poonawala, of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan
TEAM of: Sebastien Rake and Carol Bellows, of the University of Oregon, Eugene, United States
Ashween Ramhotar, of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Petrina Yeap, of the National University of Singapore Singapore
The Jury is now reading and deliberating to name winners. Our apologies for the late announcement of the finalists and regret for any inconvenience the late announcement may have caused. The Finalist webpage will be updated soon to reflect these results.
source (http://www.berkeleyprize.org/index.cfm?pg=NEWS&NID=364)
this is the first time that an Iranian team makes it to the finals in this competition and considering the political environment between Iran and the US and the fact that it has affected academic relations before it would be interesting to see the Iranian team winning the prize and reaction it gets.