For the information of all of us. How many nepalese professors are there in US universties. Would you contribute by posting, if they are in your school or you know them. Googling gave me few of them (see below). Hope everybody will contribute to continue this.

1. Samrat Upadhaya-----Creative English Writing-----Indiana University
2. Shiva Garutam----Biostatistics----Harvard University
3. Alok Bohara----Economics-----University of New Mexico
4. Brijesh Thapa---- Recreation and Tourism-----University of Florida

Himalaya
My tone of asking that question was not that appropriate, hagi ?

I almost sent you an email asking who you are. But now I can at least guess your ID.
Poor Shakya Sir for having us.

That has been a long time hai.

I also do have a student status in the same university.
Technically, I, myself, can be a teacher and a student in the same class and vice versa.

These people have wierd rules, at times. And have made all the professions that need licensing difficult.

Mahendra Lawoti,
Assistant professor,
Department of political Science,
Western Michigan University
Kamlamazoo, MI 49008

all braindrain from Nepal. i saw few nepali professors from Nepal working at subway.

hey, its like saying how many single woman are there in america?

who cares how many professors are there in american universitiies when i can't even find a decent man.

One of the top Anesthesioligist

Raj Ghale
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
University Of Chicago, IL

Dr. Hari Luitel... Assistant Professor..St. Cloud State University, MN

SajhakoHero: Braindrain is a complex beast. You seem to imply that talent is wasted when a professor works at a Subway restaurant. What about the waste that happens when professors sit idle for months while their universities in Nepal are closed down by bandhas? And how will Nepal build world class universities without the contribution from people with a decade or two of experience at world class universities?

Dr neupane - Suny upstate univ
Dr Shah- Albert Einstein Univ
Dr/Dr Ms Koirala - SIU univ
Around 30s Doc Proff in US univ

Very impressive list altogether.

Great to learn that so many Nepali academics are at various colleges/universities in the US.

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Arnico wrote:

"And how will Nepal build world class universities without the contribution from people with a decade or two of experience at world class universities?"


I am not so sure about this.

I respect world-class universities (Harvard, Stanford et al), but Arnico I am sure you know that -- given the uniquely free-market nature of the American higher education (that is, they fiercely compete for top students, promising professors and research grants all the time) -- those universities and their peer institutions alone do NOT have an across-the-board monopoly on global excellence.

Given the needs, Nepal needs Harvard-trained environmental scientists as much as it needs, well,University of Montana-trained development-studies scholars.And who are we to say who's world-class and who's not?

More tellingly, in Nepal, in my limited view, I see that there's a shortage -- NOT of people with world-class credentials but of researchers who are hardworking, motivated and smart and who find creative, practical ways to deal with Nepal-related uncertainties
and unknowns to continue their research and publish stuff.

A few in Nepal are globally demanded - and I see them flying off to conferences abroad practically every month. Others continue to talk about their world-class credentials . . . long past such credentials are of any value to anyone else but their own obnoxious sons and daughters!

So the question is NOT:
How do you gather a bunch of Nepalis with world-class credentials in Nepal for research.

Rather the question is:
How do you find ways to keep smart Nepalis, regardless of where they are educated, MOTIVATED to produce research and teach their students in Nepal while minimizing the uncertainties and unknowns that working in Nepal necessarily entail for them?

I don't know the answer.

And I say all this NOT as an academic (that is, NOT in the sense of someone who proves theorems of living) but as someone who loves to quietly watch the Nepali (and American) academia.

Please feel free to disagree.

oohi
ashu

helpless....hapless.....nonetheless....nepalese!

not meaning to demean their achievements, but it would be interesting to know how many of them are professors (into academia) "by choice" :P :D....

I am just wondering Who gonna study Nepali in USA. Even they get degree, it is useless... for what?

If somebody want to study Nepali, they go to Nepal for better Nepali education.

Narayan Bhattarai
Washinton University
Assistant prof

:P

:D

Dr. Santosh Khadka
Assistant Professor
Department of English
California State University Northridge
santosh.khadka@csun.edu

OMG this thread was back from 2007 when we were still in college. dang

who resurrected this thread? bit of a mystery