Inder kaur biography of barack
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As Black History Month draws to a close, we asked our members which inspirational Black figures from history have inspired them, here is what they had to say.
Hauwa Shehu: Shirley Chisolm is inspirational
There are many inspirational Black figures that inspire me every day. Many of those whose stories uplift and empower me include women and Muslims, as I can identify with their struggles and stories as a proud Black Muslim woman myself. It is therefore not easy for me to spotlight just one. Still, I will mention Shirley Chisolm – the first African-American woman elected to the United States Congress in 1968, and the first Black person to run for President of the USA in 1972. I admire her fearlessness and her ambition. One of my favourite quotes from her is “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” She was ahead of her time and didn’t let a broken system, riddled with racial and gender inequality and discrimination
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Inder Preet Kaur
Positions
- Honorary Research Fellow
- School of Dentistry
- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Overview
Background
Dr Kaur is working as an Honorary Research Fellow/Lecturer within the School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland, Australia. Along with her current work on 'Topically applied nano silver biocomposites in Dentistry', she is providing hands on research supervision to higher degree research students.
Dr Kaur's research interests include understanding the surface chemistry at nanoscale, development of nanomaterial libraries for specific applications, characterization using sophisticated spectroscopic and microscopic techniques, behavioral difference between nanoparticles and metal ions, understanding the nano-bio (eco) interactions through the corona formation, quantification and life cycle assessment of nanomaterials in both biological tissues and environmental samples. Her research philosophy is to encourage her
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‘My mother Preneet Kaur will join BJP today. She will contest from Patiala. We were deeply hurt the way Cong humiliated my father’: Amarinder Singh’s daughter
Q) Why wait mot your late 50s to join politics, when your parents were in the Congress for decades?
I have been helping both my parents in their election campaigns since 1998, but I was never a member of the församling. When my father became the Punjab CM in 2017, inom expressed my wish to help him fulfill the promises we had made to the people of our hometown — Patiala. Though inom was never involved in politics or his tjänsteman work, inom worked in Patiala to ensure that promises made during my father’s tenure were fulfilled. That’s when I realised that a lot needs to be done, and got vigorously involved in public works with my parents. After leaving the Congress, when my father floated his own party, the Punjab Lok församling (PLC), inom campaigned for him during the 2022 Punjab Assembly polls. inom only decided to take the pl