A professor at IIT-Kanpur has been appointed as an honorary member of the World Health Organization Global Air Pollution and Health-Technical Advisory Group, the institute said. Mukesh Sharma, an air quality expert associated with the civil engineering department at IIT-Kanpur, has melded rigorous research with policy engagement, it said. WHO-TAG is an advisory body to the WHO providing technical guidance …
One of the country’s oldest cultural institutions, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, is undergoing some of its biggest changes in more than a century. They range from US poet laureate Joy Harjo and author-journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates to jazz great Wynton Marsalis and visual artist Betye Saar, who at 94 is the oldest new inductee since Roger Angell was …
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