{"id":10823,"date":"2017-02-17T10:59:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10823"},"modified":"2017-05-16T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T10:04:47","slug":"okorie-peter-ugochukwu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okorie-peter-ugochukwu\/","title":{"rendered":"OKORIE, Peter Ugochukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: Wednesday (Eke) 10,h November, 1954 State of Origin: Imo Local Government Area: Owerri North Village\/Town: Uboebgelu, Emekuku Contact Address: Dept of Animal Science &#038; Environmental Biology Imo State University, Owerri Dr Peter Ugochukwu Okorie is currently an Associate Professor of Animal Science in the Department of Animal and Environmental Biology. Imo State University Owerri. He hails from Uboegbelu Emekuku Town, in the Owerri North Local Government Area. Education \u2022 College of Immaculate Conception, Enugu WASC 1971 \u2022 University of Nigeria Nsukka B.Sc (Hons) Zoology 1978 \u2022 University of Port Harcourt M.Sc Hydrobiology\/Fisheries 1985 \u2022 Abia Stale University Uturu PhD 1985 Appointments \u2022 School of Basic Studies Ugbokolo, Benue State, Lecturer ( NYSC) 1978 1979 \u2022 Fisheries Olficer I. World-Bank Assisted LA.D.P. Lafia 1979 1981 \u2022 Michael Okpara College of Agriculture Umuagvvo 1982 1988. Lecturer II &#038; Lecturer III \u2022 Abia State University Uturu 1988 1995 Imo State University. Owerri. Senior Lecturer 1995 1999 \u2022 Associate Professor 2000-date Other National Responsibilities and Assignments \u2022 Member. College of Agriculture Accreditation Committee \u2022 Chairman. College of Agriculture Committee on Material Infrastructure for Accreditation \u2022 Member. University Committee on State of FAA, FHA and Mass Communication \u2022 Member. IMSU Projects Committee \u2022 Chairman. University Committee on Staff Disciplinary Report \u2022 President. Senior Stall&#8217; Association SSATHRIA) Michael Okpara College of Agriculture ( MOCA) Umuagvvo 1985 1987 \u2022 Member. Governing Council (MOCA) Umuagvvo. 1986 1988 \u2022 Chairman. Stall&#8217; Disciplinary Committee ( MOCA) Umuagvvo 1986 1988 President. Post-graduate Students Union. University of Port Harcourt 1982 1983 Social Organizational Positions \u2022 Secretary. Emekuku Care-taker Committee. 1996 2003 \u2022 President General. Emekuku Town Union. 1995 1996 Patron, Imo Stale Taekwando Association 2002 \u2022 Member. Conference Democratic Scholars (CODES), Imo Slate Zonal Secretariat. \u2022 Committed Member of the Divine Mercy Devotion of Nigeria wards, Honours and Prizes \u2022 John F. Kennedy Essay Prize 1973 \u2022 Imo State Government Undergraduate Scholarship Award 1976 1978 \u2022 Federal Govt Post-Graduate Scholarship Award 1982 1983 \u2022 Man of the Year Award by American Biographical Institute 2002 \u2022 Distinguished Honours Merit Award by National Orientation Agency [NOA)\/OWNCUWAS\/ Owerri North Local Government Area Publications \u2022 Written over 35 published journal articles of national and international standard. There are also conference and seminar papers presented by him. Some of his famous papers include \u2022 &#8216;The use of Biodiversity indices in characterization of Extent of Perturbation of Aquatic Environments&#8217; Membership of Learned Associations \u2022 Member. National Society for Biological Conservation \u2022 Member. Fisheries Society of Nigeria \u2022 Member. Biotechnology Society of Nigeria \u2022 Member. Professors of World Peace Academy \u2022 Member and Vice Chairman. Eileen African Endangered Species Society <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10823","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}