The Nehru Trophy vallamkali winner for the 2008 is Karichal Chundan ( chundan

13th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice ( SBSTTA-13 ) held from 18 to 22 February 2008 in the Food and Agriculture Organization at Rome, Italy.

Also that month, the Serbian Minister of Science and Technological Development met a Portuguese delegation and discussed cooperation in energy efficiency, nanotechnology, and the food industry, with plans to sign a co-operation agreement on science and technology by the end of 2008.

* THE Rankings-Nanyang Technological University ( 2008 )

In 2008, the college had the highest number of gold medal winners among colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, a gold medal being the honour given to a student of a university when he outscores everyone else in a course.

On 28 April 2008, he was elected as the foreign associate of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Banaras Hindu University ( 1994 ), Andhra University ( 1995 ), S. V. University, Tirupati ( 1996 ), Sri Krishna Devaraya University, Ananthpur ( 1998 ), Anna University, Chennai ( 1998 ), Roorkee University, Roorkee ( 1999 ), IIT, Bombay ( 2000 ), Chatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur ( 2000 ), Gurunanak Dev University, Amritsar ( 2001 ), University of Calcutta, Calcutta ( 2002 ), Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU ), New Delhi ( 2003 ), Panjab University, Chandigarh ( 2003 ), Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum ( 2004 ), Alagappa University, Karaikudi ( 2006 ), Mysore University, Mysore ( 2007 ); SRM University, Chennai ( 2008 )

* Woolston ( 2008 ), Jennifer M. “ Lady Audley as the Cunning ‘ Other ’: An Economic, Sexual, and Criminal Attack on the Victorian Patriarchal Mindset ,” English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities ( EAPSU ) Online, Vol.

* Medical History Annick Opinel 2008, The Emergence of French Medical Entomology: The Influence of Universities, the Institut Pasteur and Military Physicians ( 1890 – c. 1938 ) Med Hist.

-2nd place, Ranking of Economics and Business departments of Chilean Private Universities, " Que Pasa " magazine, 2008.

* No. 27 among Top American Private Research Universities by The Center for Measuring University Performance ( 2008 )

A Chinese ' Academic Ranking of World Universities ' also places Cambridge ( 4th place ) and Oxford ( 10th place ) in the World top ten in 2008, with University College London ( 22nd ) and Imperial College London ( 27th ) following in the top 30.

In 2008, the borough was named as the fifth happiest of 273 districts in Britain by researchers from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester, who used information on self-reported personal well-being from the British Household Panel Survey.

According to the 2009 by-fields Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities ( conducted by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan ), PolyU was ranked 72nd in 2008 but 63rd in 2009, in the world in terms of engineering publication performance.

Cover of 2008 Guide to Canadian Universities

UTS has been ranked 234 in the World's Top 500 universities by the Times HES ( 2008 ) and was one of two Australian Universities given A1 ratings across all major disciplines in 2007 and 2008 by the Federal Government Education department.

In November 2008, Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea Universities decided to exercise their right to register students to study for their own awarded degrees.

Colorado School of Mines ranked 33rd among the Top 50 Public National Universities, and 75th among all American Universities in 2008.

The university has been ranked 9th, 10th and 14th in 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively in the ranking " Truly Strong Universities " by Toyo Keizai.

The university has been ranked 5th in 2008 – 2009 and 6th in 2010 in the ranking called " Truly Strong Universities ( 本当に強い大学 )" by Toyo Keizai.

In the U. S. News and World Report " America's Best Colleges and Universities 2008 ," UNCP finished 1st among North Carolina public universities for the percentage of classes under 20 students.

Following the October 2008 reshuffle, Simon was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Further Education in the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

It is currently the best ranked Argentine university in college and university rankings, present at number 197 of the Top Universities 2008 and at number 151-200 of the 2010 Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranking.

* Kiplinger's ranked SUNY Cortland among its 100 Best Values Among Public College and Universities in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

In October 2008 the Irish Government announced its intention to amalgamate HETAC with FETAC and NQAI, the two other bodies established under the Qualifications Act, while also incorporating the functions for the external review of Irish universities currently carried out by the Irish Universities Quality Board ..

Years of expansion and dedication resulted in the College gaining accreditation as a four-year, Baccalaureate degree granting institution effective September 2008 by the Northwest Commission of Colleges and Universities.

The university was ranked 72nd in 2010 ( 63rd in 2009, 78th in 2008 ) in the ranking Truly Strong Universities by Toyo Keizai.

Figures for the most recent year for which data is available ( 2008 ) indicate 100 percent satisfaction among students at Bond University and Jschool ( both in Queensland ), and 85-86 percent satisfaction among students at the Universities of Canberra, Newcastle and the Sunshine Coast ..

The University of Memphis is one of only two Universities in America with a live tiger mascot, After being diagnosed with mouth cancer, TOM II was euthanized on October 15, 2008, at the age of 17.

It was ranked 37th out of several hundred Midwestern Universities in 2006, and 47th in 2007, 40th in 2008, and 55th in 2009.

On September 25, 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 ( ADAAA ).

The Atlantic Baptist University Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 2008.

The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008, which came into law in 2008, amends the Controlled Substances Act to address online pharmacies.

The government has recovered nearly $ 22 billion under the False Claims Act between 1987 ( after the significant 1986 amendments ) and 2008.

Under the amended Mental Health Act 2007, which came into force in November 2008, to be detained under Section 3 for treatment, appropriate treatment must be available in the place of detention.

The Mental Health ( Care and Treatment ) Act was passed in 2008 to regulate the involuntary detention of a person in a psychiatric institution for the treatment of a mental disorder, or in the interest of the health and safety of the person or the persons around him.

However, on January 7, 2008, George W. Bush appointee H. Dale Hall, Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ( USFWS ), signed a recommendation to abandon jaguar recovery as a federal goal under the Endangered Species Act.

The principal statute regulating the selection, obligations and conduct of juries is the Juries Act 1976 as amended by the Civil Law ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 2008, which scrapped the upper age limit of 70.

The band were honoured with the " Best Live Act " prize for their one-off reunion at MOJO Awards 2008, where they were described as the " greatest rock and roll band of all time ".

The band were honoured with the " Best Live Act " prize for their one-off reunion at the 2008 MOJO Awards, where they were described as the " greatest rock and roll band of all time ".

The law concerned was Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, brought in by the Labour Party government of 2005-2010.

In 2008, NCS joined over 60 other art licensing businesses ( including the Artists Rights Society, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Stock Artists Alliance, Illustrator's Partnership of America and the Advertising Photographers of America ) in opposing both The Orphan Works Act of 2008 and The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008.

* 2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.

* in England and Wales ( as of October 2008 ; Companies Act 2006 ) and in Scotland ( Age of Legal Capacity ( Scotland ) Act 1991 ), the male / female is under 16 years old.