Second International Conference on "Nepal’s Development and Nepalese Scholarship"

Press Release:

Nepalese Student Association (NeSA) at New Mexico State University organized one day symposium entitled “Second International Conference on Nepal’s Development and Nepalese Scholarship” on Saturday, March 20, 2010. It was the second continuing effort of NesA to organize such an exciting event in its history. The symposium was open for all participants from around the world. Dr. Gyan Nepaune, an assistant Professor from Arizona State University delivered a keynote speech focusing on different aspects of Tourism in Nepal. Nepalese Scholars from University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and from University of Texas at El Paso were also invited to give invited talk on different issues such as Education system, Health, Geology and so on. Also the symposium had significant number of contributed presentations from New Mexico State University. Altogether there were about 15 different research based presentations (posters and talk) on different important issues related to Nepal and abroad and about 80 participant from different part of U. S. A. NeSA is a chartered organization at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. Mr. Binod Gurung, director of Academic and research subcommittee, coordinated the symposium. Currently Mr. Shyam Kattel serves as President of Nepalese Student Association and Dr. Ram Acharya, Assistant professor at New Mexico State University is advisor of the association. The symposium was co-sponsored by Associated Students of New Mexico State University (ASNMSU).