The Science Initiative Group (SIG) at the Institute for Advanced Study announces a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) to fund the Regional Initiative in Science and Education (RISE) in Africa for 2014-2016. The award of $4,999,500 represents the third and final grant by CCNY in support of RISE, bringing the total CCNY funding for RISE to more than $15 million since 2008. Full press release here.
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This month, the Regional Initiative in Science and Education or RISE, a program run by the Institute for Advanced Study, received its third and final grant from the Carnegie Corp. of New York. Since 2008, Carnegie has given RISE more than $15 million to train scientists and engineers in sub-Saharan Africa.
December 2013
by Kaz Janowski, SciDev.Net
In this podcast, Pelly Malebe, a PhD student at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, discusses her academic journey – from the ideas that inspired her as a young student on first being introduced to DNA, to her hopes and aspirations for her research today and in the future.
December 2013
A tree transplanted from Asia is helping Ugandans in a number of ways, and one of them is natural healing. This video highlights the research done by Patrick Ogwang of RISE-AFNNET and his colleagues. Video here.
December 2013
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Theoretical physicists frequently serve as the stewards of impossible-seeming ideas, trying to reconcile the inconceivably enormous with the inconceivably small. Similarly, scientists from the developing world can be caught between their desire to practice on the edge of their field and the realities of paltry science budgets or even authoritarianism. Scientists who manage to reconcile this conflict leave an impact like few others.
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