UPNG to honour Niles at 57th graduation ceremony

THE University of Papua New Guinea will confer a doctor of philosophy degree as one of the highlights of its 57th graduation on Friday.
Acting director and senior ethnomusicologist at the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Don Williams Niles, will be the recipient.
Niles’ research was based on the music and dance traditions of Mt Hagen, Western Highlands province.
His work was jointly supervised by Dr Linus digim’Rina of UPNG’s Anthropology and Sociology discipline and Alan Rumsey of the Anthropology department at the Australian National University.
Of the 1,230 graduates, 80 will receive postgraduate degrees and 1,140 undergraduate degrees.
The 57th graduation ceremony will be in two sessions. The school of business administration, school of humanities and social sciences will be held in the morning and the schools of medicine and health sciences, natural and physical sciences and law in the afternoon.
Seventeen people will receive masters of business administration and master of strategic management degrees.
Master of Science graduate Reynold Philip of the chemistry discipline based his research on plant proteins and his work was published in the Journal of American Chemical Society which has been adjudged among the 10 best papers published in 2011 in the chemistry-biology category.
Another chemistry graduate, Vincent Ipang, who is receiving a Bachelor of Science degree with honours, based his research on the optimum conditions for the synthesis of biodiesel.
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