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Computer Science        Research Interests

Publications

Dr. Nathan Amanquah
Assistant Professor
  • Management of quality of service in short range mobile ad hoc networks using middleware techniques
  • Ambient networks

Selected Publications

Dr. Suzanne Buchele
Fulbright Scholar & Acting Dean of Academic Affairs
  • One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and issues of technology and education
  • Solid modeling and computer graphics
  • Scientific computation

Selected Publications

Aelaf Dafla
Lecturer
  • Computer based instrumentation
  • Embedded systems
  • Reconfigurable hardware

 

Astrid Twenebowa Larssen
Assistant Professor
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Philosophy of the body
  • Practice-based research and research methods
  • Interdisciplinary teaching and experiential learning
  • Other interests and activities:
    Program committee, Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI); Co-editor, Special issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing on Movement-based interaction (Springer Verlag)

Selected Publications

Kwadwo Gyamfi
Osafo-Maafo

Lecturer
  • Systems, Software and Architecture: software systems, operating systems, database systems, digital systems, computer architecture, programming languages
  • Theory: programming languages, complexity theory, [applied] algorithms
 

 

 

 

Arts & Sciences        Research Interests

Publications

Dr. Nana Araba Apt
Dean of Academic Affairs
(On Leave)
  • Ageing and old age
  • The family as a support system
  • Gender and gender roles
  • Other interests and awards:
    In 1999, Prof Apt received an Award of Recognition from the United Nations Secretary General for her research and advocacy work on ageing in Africa. She is a Board Member of HelpAge International and President of the African Gerontological Society. She was also a member of the United Nations Expert Group responsible for drafting the document for the World Assembly on Ageing.
 
Elvis Fefey
Lecturer
  • Mathematical modeling of industrial reactors
  • Optimization of the steady state cycle time for packed bed reactors
 
Dr. Molara Yetunde Ogundipe
Professor
  • Comparative literary theory and cultural analysis
  • Africana literatures and cultures
  • Women’s and gender studies
  • Other interest and activities:
    Participation in the 1985 U.N. Decade Conference on Women, in Nairobi, Kenya through the International Women for Peace and Food; Founder and moderator of a Nigerian national television network programme: “Nigeria:A New Consciousness.” 1983-84; Organizer and participant in UNDP (United Nations Development Programmes) TOT (Training of Trainers) workshops in rural Tanzania and Nigeria.

Selected Publications

Mark Poynter
Lecturer
  • International relations and currents affairs, particularly past events of the Cold War and the current developments shaping today’s New World order
  • Marxist arguments relating to social and cultural hegemony
  • The politics of realism in determining the events of global power
  • The ideas of Leo Strauss and the rise of the Neo-Conservatives
  • Ongoing research for teaching comparative politics
 
     
Business Administration        Research Interests

Publications

Kofi Bentil
Lecturer
  • Critical survival issues for small and medium companies (SMEs), including business strategy and marketing
  • Service marketing challenges and strategies
  • Business strategy and marketing for financial institutions
  • Entrepreneurship development an large scale project management issues in Ghana
  • Emerging thoughts in management science
  • Awards:
    World Bank and affiliates, Entrepreneurship Development Program, (Ghana Development Marketplace); World Bank, GDM Award for Entrepreneurship (¢100 million) to set up a company.
 
Daniel Torvinyo
Lecturer
  • Risk management
  • Corporate governance, restructuring and evaluation
  • Stock markets performance
  • Emerging thoughts in management science
  • Small and medium scale business management and financing
 
     


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