According to a press statement issued by the organizing committee of the conference, 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 conference organized on March 21.Students from various US Universities including Eshan Dahal (NMSU),Sarvesh Dhakal(UTEP), Sanjay Timilsina (UTEP), Zheng (David) Wei (NMSU), Rishi Sapkota (NMSU), Melody Handali (NMSU), Roshani Rajbanshi (NMSU), Sudip Gaire (NMSU), Mukunda Acharya (UTEP), Erika Y. Monroy (NMSU),Prajwal Tamrakar (UTEP), Deepak Basyal (NMSU) and Menuka Karki (NMSU) had presented the paper in the conference.
In the third session, guest speaker and young scientist Dr. Basanta Giri (Kathmandu Institute of Science & Technology), who recently returned to Nepal from USA focused his presentation on the challenges and opportunities of scientific research in Nepal. "The diaspora often do not want to go back to homeland because there is no encouragement from government to do serious research," he said. Other guest speakers Dr. Ramesh Giri (UNM), 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.
Distinguished guests Dr. Cornell Menking, Graduate dean Dr. Louy Reyes and head of Chemistry department Dr. William Quintana had delivered welcome speech in the inaugural session of the conference. "The students from Nepal are really a big power of the department and they are very energetic and creative", Dr. Quintana said in his welcome speech.
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 and then reading out the message of good wishes from Research Professor at Arizona State University Dr. Ambika P. Adhikari, who was the Keynote Speaker of NeSA Sixth International Conference
Keynote speaker Dr. Gyanu Lamichhane from JohnsHopkins University School of Medicine gave a talk on the partnership between Diasporas and native land. "A nation can only prosper if its people are educated. For that, Nepal should adopt decentralization in education and establish universities with research facilities in remote parts of the country also", he stated.
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