University of California at Davis to Hold a New Plant Breeding Academy in Kenya
Since 2006 the University of California at Davis Plant Breeding Academy has trained 114 crop breeders from 26 countries. Now the university has announced plans for a new African Plant Breeding Academy to be held in Nairobi, Kenya.
Indiana University Law School Advising Liberia on Constitutional Changes
The Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, has been selected as an adviser to the Constitutional Review Committee of the Government of Liberia.
Scholar to Examine Links Between the 1970s Black Power Movement and Australian Aborigine Activists
Alex Carter, a Ph.D student at the University of Massachusetts, will spend a full year in Australia, beginning in August, working with the Performance Research Unit and the Indigenous Centre at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria, near Melbourne. His research will also take him to Sydney, Brisbane, and Canberra.
Howard University Engineering Students Spending the Summer Conducting Research in Africa
In Cameroon, Howard students will use wireless networks to collect seismic data. In Senegal, the research will focus on HIV resistance to antiretroviral drugs. In South Africa, Howard University students will conduct experiments with silicon detectors in nuclear physics laboratories.
Colorado State University Mounting a Book Drive to Help the Library at an Ethiopian...
President Tony Frank is asking students, faculty, and staff at the university to donate books that will be shipped to the library at Hawassa University in Ethiopia.
University of Pennsylvania Study Examines the Health of Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa
The study found that a 45-year-old women in rural Malawi could be expected to spend 58 percent of their remaining life with functional limitations. For 45-year-old men, 41 percent of their remaining years would include functional limitations.
Stanford University Creates Fellowships for African MBA Students
Fellows will receive full tuition scholarships and must agree to return to Africa within two years of graduating from the Stanford business school and work for a business, government agency, or nonprofit organization for a least two consecutive years.
African Union Looks to Establish Continental Accrediting Agency for Higher Education
In a communique issued at the conclusion of a recent conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, participants stated that "National and regional regulatory bodies are essential to successful continental quality assurance harmonization in Africa."
Texas Tech To Host Up to 250 Nigerian Students Each Year
Under the agreement students from Nigeria will be able to study at home for two years and then complete their degree at a campus of the Texas Tech system. The plan is for 250 Nigerian students to study on Texas Tech campuses each academic year.
Two American Universities Partner With Ghana Technology University College
Ghana Technology University College has announced partnership agreements with historically Black Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, and Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia.
University of Pittsburgh Receives Donation of African Artifacts
Among the items donated to the university are a bronze casting of the head of a queen mother from Benin, a helmet mask made of wood and human hair from Tanzania, and a Kente cloth used by members of the royal court of the Ashanti people of Ghana.
Married Couple Awarded Ph.D.s on Same Day at the University of Lagos
Olusegun Samuel earned his Ph.D. in marine ecology with a concentration in ecotoxicology. Temitope Samuel's research focuses on dermatophyte, a group of fungi that causes skin diseases.
Most of Timbuktu’s Vast Collection of African History Was Not Lost
The institute's library collection included approximately 30,000 volumes, many of which are one-of-kind manuscripts some dating back 700 years. Although the library was set on fire by a radical Islamist faction, many of the documents had been removed and others were found safe in a locked basement room.
Southern University of New Orleans Gains an Academic Partner in Africa
Under the agreement with Central University College in Ghana, SUNO will engage in exchanges of students and faculty, cooperate on research projects, and participate in joint lecture and seminar projects.
Alabama State University Signs New Agreement With a University in India
Alabama State University, the historically Black educational institution in Montgomery, has signed a collaborative agreement with the Gujarat Forensic Science University in Ahmedabad, India. It is Alabama State's third agreement with universities in India.
Columbia University Opens Its First Global Center in Africa
Projects at the center include the Millennium Villages Project, which helps rural villages lift themselves out of poverty, the Drylands Initiative that works to help drought-stricken areas, and the Africa Soil Information Services.
MIT Doctoral Student Looks to Help Victims of His Country’s Civil War
David Moinina Sengeh escaped with his family from Sierra Leone during the country's brutal civil war. At MIT he is working to develop higher quality, inexpensive prosthetic limbs to be used by the victims of the war.
Michigan Renews Support for Its Africa Studies Center
The university will provide $1.8 million to the center over the next three years. The money supports research, course development, fellowships, and other initiatives.
SUNY Extends Financial Aid Program for Haitian Students
The board of trustees of the State University of New York has renewed authorization of a program that offers state resident tuition for students from Haiti through the spring semester of 2014.
Brown University Graduate Student Examines HIV Disclosure Rates in Ethiopia
Ayalu Reda, a graduate student in sociology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, surveyed AIDS patients in Ethiopia and found that one third of those who are married had not told their spouse they were HIV-positive.
Alabama State University Partners With Yangzhou University in China
Under the agreement there will be faculty and student exchanges between the two universities. Much of the activity will center around research in nanobiotechnology.
Tracking U.S. College Students Who Study Abroad in Africa
Of the nearly 274,000 U.S. college students studying abroad during the 2010-11 academic year, 14,087, or 5.1 percent, attended universities in Africa. There were 11,878 American students at universities in sub-Saharan African nations.
Three Universities Working With Howard G. Buffett to Solve Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa
Researchers from Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Missouri will partner with the International Center for Wheat and Maize Improvement and Educational Concerns for Hunger.
Significant Decline in African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities
In 2011, there were 2,790 scholars from African nations teaching at U.S. colleges and universities. This is down from 3,800 just three years ago. At that time, scholars from Africa made up 3.3 percent of all foreign professors teaching at U.S. universities. Today they are 2.4 percent.
New Online Archive of Old African Newspapers
The archive contains 40 different African newspapers published between 1800 and 1922. Researchers can search the archive by keyword, names, places, and dates.
Report Finds a Decline in Students From Sub-Saharan Africa at U.S. Colleges and Universities
The number of foreign students studying at U.S. colleges and universities is on the rise but the number of students studying here from African nations is on the decline.
African American College Students Are Increasingly Studying Abroad
In the 2005-06 academic year, 3.5 percent of all American college students who studied abroad were Black. Since that time the percentage of Blacks in the study abroad pool has increased each year.
Emory University Sending More Medical Residents to Ethiopia
Emory University School of Medicine is expanding its study abroad program in Ethiopia to include residents in surgery, pediatrics, dermatology, anesthesiology, pathology, gynecology and obstetrics, family and preventive medicine, and rehabilitation medicine.
Pomona College Begins Instruction in Swahili
The Swahili language is used by more than 60 million people and is the official language of five African nations. At Pomona, students will study on their own and meet with a counselor once a week to practice conversation.
African Studies Institute at the University of Georgia Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
The two-week celebration being held in the first half of November will include an international conference, theater performances, film screenings, lectures, and other campus events focused on Africa.
Refurbished African Art Gallery Opens at the University of Illinois
Five iPads are mounted throughout the gallery that display videos featuring interviews with artists whose works are on display or other informational videos relating to the artwork shown.
MasterCard Foundation Makes a Major Commitment to the Education of Africans
Among the partnering institutions in the United States are Arizona State University, Michigan State University, Stanford University, the University of California Berkeley, Duke University and Wellesley College.
New Study Abroad Program for Students at 11 HBCUs
Blacks make up about 12 percent of all undergraduate student enrollments in American higher education, but they are less than 5 percent of the students who participate in study abroad programs.
Arizona State University Professor Seeks to Advance Engineering Education in Africa
Over the past 15 years, Arizona State University professor Terry Alford has made 12 trips to Africa to teach two-week engineering seminars at schools and universities.
Brazil Adopts Racial Quotas in University Admissions
More than half of Brazil's population is Black or mixed race. But only a very small percentage of university students in Brazil are Black.
Stanford Sees a Surge in African Studies Students
The number of students taking African studies courses at Stanford has increased 27 percent over the past eight years.
