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Two champions for children become honorary doctors

18 April 2024

Maria Karlberg

Indian principal Seetha Murty has worked with children鈥檚 and young people鈥檚 learning throughout her professional life. American professor Cindy W. Christian has devoted her career to developing the care of abused children. Both of them will be awarded honorary doctorates at 糖心网页版.

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Seetha Murty is principal of the Silver Oaks International Schools.Photo credit: Rajakumari Chiliukuri

Seetha Murty will receive an honorary doctorate of philosophy for her commitment to teacher education, where she has enabled students and teachers at LiU to gain an increased global understanding of education issues. For 15 years, she has been principal and educational director of the Silver Oaks International Schools in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam in India. Her leadership, which has been praised and acknowledged, is based on Mahatma Gandhi鈥檚 philosophy of non-violence. The field of educational sciences at LiU has for the past ten years collaborated with Seetha Murty and staff and students at Silver Oaks. Seetha Murty has been central to this collaboration, both by receiving and educating students during on-site training and summer courses, and by being a partner in conversation in emerging research projects.

Cooperation with Barnafrid

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Cindy W. Christian is a professor of paediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.Photo credit: Paul Crane
Cindy W. Christian will become an honorary doctor of medicine. She has collaborated with the national knowledge centre Barnafrid at LiU, Swedish paediatricians and other professionals for several years. In doing so, she has contributed to the development of Sweden鈥檚 child protection team and health care practices in the care of abused children. She is a professor of paediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the top children's hospitals in the United States and the world, where she has led and developed the child protection team for more than two decades. From 2010 to 2015, Cindy W. Christian was the first medical director of the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, where she led the work to integrate interaction with social services into clinical processes, procedures and strategies to improve the health of children in need of community support.

Two more honorary doctors

Earlier this spring, the Faculty of Science and Engineering at LiU announced two honorary doctorate recipients: Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt and the Austrian quantum physicist and Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger. As Sweden鈥檚 third astronaut in space, Marcus Wandt has contributed to increasing interest in technology throughout the country. Anton Zeilinger is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Vienna. He received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, among other things for an experiment, involving LiU researchers, with entangled, or 鈥渋ntertwined鈥�, photons that violate Bell鈥檚 theorem.

All honorary doctorates will be conferred at the academic ceremony, which will take place on 1 June. The day before, 31 May, they will each give a lecture open to the public.

Translation: Anneli Mosell

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An astronaut and a Nobel laureate are new honorary doctors at LiU

The Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt and the Austrian quantum physicist and Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at 糖心网页版.
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