Le Next Einstein Forum (NEF) a récemment annoncé ses 16 lauréats de différents pays d’Afrique, parmi lesquels, Dr. Rym Kefi, chercheuse au laboratoire de génomique biomédicale et oncogénétique et responsable du service de typage génétique à l’Institut Pasteur de Tunis. Read more […]
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Jonathan Mboyo Esole, named a Next Einstein Forum Fellow for 2017-2019, an award that recognizes Africa’s best young scientists and technologists. Born from the Democratic Republic of Congo, he was inspired by the famous physicist, Esole is an accomplished mathematician, and specialist in string Geometry. He is now an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics […]
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It’s been more than 50 years since there was a female winner. Maria Goeppert Mayer, is the last woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 after she discovered that the nucleus of the atom has an onion like layered structure. Elizabeth Landau writes that since then many other women have been widely considered […]
The Next Einstein Forum, is offering eligible scientists another opportunity to join its 2017-19 fellows, in a move intended to push up the number of women fellows to a minimum of 40%. This news follows a recent cohort of 16 scientists published, among which only six are females. While the formal process has closed, Nathalie Munyampenda, Associate Director […]
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Beginning of this week in Sunday Times, NEF Fellow Prof. Amanda Weltman was highlighted as one of theoretical physics’s brightest stars. Amanda is among the best minds of Women in STEM, known for proposing the Chameleon field, a particle that could be responsible for causing the observed accelerated expansion of the universe while also causing interesting and unexpected local and […]
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A number of stumbling blocks like geographical and political barriers to intra-African collaboration must be urgently addressed because they prevent Africans and the rest of the world from working together. Free movement of researchers is necessary for networking and a foundation of collaboration. Unlike people, diseases and developmental challenges don’t know geographical barriers and their […]
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While there is a considerable gender imbalance in STEM fields, there are increasing numbers of women in these fields exercising their civic duty and finding solutions to global challenges. Female scientists are developing vaccines and women tech coders are creating technologies that are changing the world in which we live. Women simply being present at the […]
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Uganda’s Dr Justus Masa, a scientist from Kyambogo University/Ruhr-University Bochum was also announced among other 15 fellows for this year’s Next Einstein Forum programme, in the second cohort class of 2017-2019. Moris Atwine writes in enstartup that, Masa’s research aims to use electrochemistry to create green and sustainable energy systems for both portable and grid-scale energy conversion and storage, […]
Last week of October the 30th, marked Black History Month in the UK, an annual event to highlight the ongoing struggle for equality and to educate people on the achievements of members of the African diaspora. A reason why Black Mathematician Month has been added to black history month calendars, to start promoting black mathematicians and […]
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Scientists are appealing to policy planners to begin integrating scientific data into development plans in order to realize benefits to society. According to the researchers meeting at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development, scientific data generated from the outer space, is key to dealing with the cyclic disasters that have been occasioned […]
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