2012 fellowship application biography
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Fellow's Research Projects
Li Fengjuan, P.R. China
| Affiliation in Home Country | College of Food Engineering and Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Associate professor |
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| Research Themes | My research topic as a UNU-Kirin fellow at NFRI: Functional properties of Chinese soybean paste against angiotensin I-converting enzyme and renin |
| Laboratory | Nutritional Function Laboratory. |
| Advisor | Dr. Kohji Yamaki, Head of Nutritional Function Laboratory. |
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I got my doctorate from China Agricultural University. My research work has been concentrating on functional foods with properties of prevention and remedy of cardiovascular diseases, especially of hypertension, microorganisms involved in food fermentation as well as advanced techniques for separating bioactive substances. It's my great honor to work here at NFRI as a UNU-Kirin fellow, and I value this opportunity very much. The objective of my present research is to ev
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The Leon Levy fellowship was a terrific experience for me, especially since I work out of my own home ordinarily and don&#;t get much feedback. I particularly liked the informal discussions of biography and biographers and I think it may be the only place where you &#;workshop&#; a piece of your biography, the kind of supportive and detailed interaction that, as far as I know, is usually only given to fiction writers.
—D.T. Max, – fellow, author of Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (Viking, ).
As a first-time biographer, I derived enormous benefit from the Leon Levy Center for Biography fellowship, not only because it provided a workplace and financial support (two very important factors), but because it put me in regular contact with other biographers, some of whom had significantly more experience working in the genre.
—Susan Bernofsky, – fellow, writing a biography of Robert Walser, the Swiss modernist author.
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Open Society Presidential (OSP) Fellowship in Law
Fellow
The fifth Open gemenskap Presidential Fellowship in lag was awarded to Joshua Pemberton. A native of New Zealand, he has worked most recently for Justice Base in Myanmar, where he led a planerat arbete investigating tillgång to court proceedings in Yangon. He previously served as clerk to Justice William ung at the New Zealand Supreme Court. Before that, he was a research assistant at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research in Wellington and a political engagement coordinator at Generation Zero in Dunedin. In he was a volunteer at the Sao Sary Foundation in Cambodia, where he taught English and wrote media stories on human trafficking in the distrikt. He has published journal articles and reports in several outlets, including the New Zealand Law Journal.
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