Regional Initiative in Science and Education (Princeton)
Website: http://sig.ias.edu/rise
July 12
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Africa: A Remarkable Exchange Experience [guest blog]
Sithabile Tirivarombo of Zimbabwe completed her PhD at Rhodes University, South Africa, in August 2012 and graduated in early April 2013. She was a member of the SSAWRN network and... Read more »
May 24
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Congo-Kinshasa: Refugee Seeks Asylum and a Science Career [staff blog]
The story of Alain Mufula, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), illustrates the many roadblocks, delays, and dangers that can hold back even the most talented and... Read more »
April 23
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Mozambique: Mapping the Ground Water of Mozambique [staff blog]
Venâncio Taimo is a native of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. He is eager, like many bright young students of that country, to repair the deep damage done by decades of... Read more »
April 11
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Malawi: Some Bacteria Like It Hot [staff blog]
Benjamin Kumwenda from Malawi began his scientific career studying undergraduate biology at the University of Malawi - Chancellor College in Zomba. But as he made his way through... Read more »
April 09
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Zimbabwe: Modernizing the Horticulture of Tea [staff blog]
Godwil Madamombe, a native of Zimbabwe, earned his bachelor's degree in crop science and his master's degree in crop protection at the University of Zimbabwe, based in Harare. Read more »
February 11
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Africa: Exploring the Genotype of the Tea Plant [staff blog]
Raising and exporting black tea is an activity of major importance in Africa today; Africa has become the world's second largest tea exporting region after India. Read more »
January 31
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Africa: Ancient Remedies for Modern Diseases [staff blog]
SABINA graduate Justin Omolo was the first RISE student to earn his PhD, which he completed in December 2011. Read more »
January 28
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Uganda: Why Are Hippos Dying of Anthrax? [staff blog]
Celsus Sente is just beginning his work as a RISE student, but he brings to it a wealth of diverse experiences in several fields and a fervent curiosity about nature. Read more »
January 23
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South Africa: Developing Guidelines for Herbicides in South Africa [staff blog]
Paul Kojo Mensah, a SSAWRN student at Rhodes University in South Africa, has tackled and completed a project of great value and considerable complexity: testing the effects of... Read more »
January 15
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Africa: Using Insects to Measure Water Quality [staff blog]
Odume Oghenekaro Nelson is a Nigerian student who entered the RISE program at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, in 2009. Read more »
January 14
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Botswana: An Urgency to Understand the Okavango Delta [staff blog]
As a native of Botswana, Gaolathe Tsheboeng is familiar with his research subject - plants in watery places. Read more »
January 10
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Congo-Kinshasa: The Challenges of Modeling the Congo [staff blog]
Raphael Tshimanga is the first RISE student in the SSAWRN network to have completed his PhD, and he is impatient to put it to good use. He will do so by returning to his home... Read more »
October 08, 2012
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Botswana: Investigating the Okavango Delta - Carbon Dynamics and Climate Change [staff blog]
Guest blog by Kelebogile Cole Mpho. Ms. Mpho, born in Botswana, is earning her MPhil from the University of Botswana's Okavango Research Institute in 2012 through the SSAWRN RISE... Read more »
September 04, 2012
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Mauritius: Life As a Scientist in Mauritius [staff blog]
Guest blog by Joseph Jean Maurice Ravina. Mr. Ravina, a native of Mauritius, earned his MSc from the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Dar es Salaam in November... Read more »
April 23, 2012
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Kenya: The Next Frontier of Memory Devices [staff blog]
Cosmas Muiva, born in Kenya in 1971, is one of several RISE students who have been waiting for many years-more than a decade, in his case-for the support he needs to advance in his... Read more »
April 19, 2012
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Kenya: Steady Progress On Superalloys [staff blog]
[This is an update on Bernard Odera's work profiled in May 2009 here.] Read more »
April 18, 2012
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Kenya: A Vision of Stronger - and 'Greener' - Concrete Buildings [staff blog]
This is an update on an earlier profile here. Read more »
April 12, 2012
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Namibia: A Proposal to Make Bioplastics From Seaweed [staff blog]
Like the other AMSEN students attending the network's annual meeting in March 2012, Naomi Shifeta of the University of Namibia (UNAM) was asked to give a brief PowerPoint... Read more »
April 11, 2012
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Nigeria: 'The Whole World Is Interested' [staff blog]
If names are any guide, Isiaka Oluwole Oladele would seem to have been born under an auspicious star. His middle name, Oluwole, means roughly "God has come home" in the Yoruba... Read more »
February 10, 2012
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Kenya: 'They Call It the Wonder Drug' [staff blog]
After a slow start in life, Karambu Muriithi is today a RISE student in a hurry. She grew up in a poor region of the equatorial Meru district, near the slopes of Mt. Kenya, where... Read more »
February 01, 2012
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Kenya: 'What Was in That Plant? Nobody Knew' [staff blog]
Ronald Okindo Onzago, an MSc student at the University of Nairobi, started his graduate studies at the same time as his friend Zachary Rukenya, in November 2010. He reminded us... Read more »
January 26, 2012
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Kenya: Alleviating Joint Pain in Rural Kenya [staff blog]
When we first spoke with Stanley Wambugu, he was still in the planning stages of his PhD project - to explore the herbal remedies being used to combat joint pain in his home region... Read more »
January 10, 2012
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Kenya: 'This Is What My Education Is Meant For' [staff blog]
Johnson Nasimolo is one of the few RISE students who grew up in a big city - in his case Nairobi. His mother told her children that "education is the only thing I can give you."... Read more »
November 16, 2009
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Uganda: Can a New Tea Stave Off Malaria? [guest blog]
Patrick Engeu Ogwang grew up in the small town of Soroti, in eastern Uganda, where malaria was (and still is) endemic. He, like most of the townspeople, was accustomed to malaria... Read more »
May 06, 2009
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Malawi: A Better Cuppa Tea for Malawi
Nicholas Mphangwe, known to his friends as Nick, works as a plant breeder for the Tea Research Foundation of Central Africa, in Malawi. Tea is critical to the Malawian economy,... Read more »
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