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’s 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.
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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’s 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 “intertwined”, photons that violate Bell’s 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