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Profiling African Women Scientists working on Climate Change

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Do you know a bright African woman scientist who is using science to address climate change issues such as food security, agriculture, biodiversity, water management etc? Nominate yourself or someone you know today to be profiled in our 2018 publication featuring Promising African Women Climate Scientists. Full name: Institution: Bio: short bio (500 words max) […]

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Africa’s most accomplished scientist, Prof Allotey goes home at last

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The mortal remains of the late Prof Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey, a renowned Ghanaian scientist were laid to rest on Saturday after burial service at the Roman Catholic Church at Saltpond in the Central Region. The late Professor Allotey died on Thursday November 2, 2017 at age 85 year.Ghanaians and foreigners from all walks of […]

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Professor Allotey to be given state burial on February 23

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The late renowned scientist, Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey, will be honoured with a state burial, the government has announced.The Mathematician died aged 85 on November 2, 2017, and will be buried on February 23, 2018. The Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid, said President Nana Akufo-Addo recognizes the efforts of Professor Allotey in the development of […]

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AIMS Canada engages the Canadian public on gender equality

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Over the past few months, AIMS Canada participated in several public engagement activities. On 18 November 2017, Karen Craggs-Milne, AIMS Global Group Director, Gender Equality, Inclusion and Business Development, was invited to deliver a keynote speech on SDG 5 and targets for achieving Gender Equality during the Peace by Piece 2017 Youth Summit organized by the Toronto YMCA. Over […]

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AIMS South Africa hosts workshop for African women in discrete mathematics and its applications

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AIMS South Africa hosted a workshop on discrete mathematics and its applications on 24 to 26 January 2018 and featured presentations by women on their research in various areas of graph theory, combinatorics, and discrete optimization. The main goals of the workshop were to build a network of African women with common mathematical interests and […]

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AIMS South Africa hosts pan-African workshop on the gender gap in mathematical and natural sciences

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From 1-2 December 2017, the regional workshop in Africa for the project ‘A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?’ was hosted at AIMS South Africa. Gender equality and inclusion is of vital importance to the work of AIMS, where 30% of all […]

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AIMS Industry Initiative Network & Partnership Event, Kigali ,Rwanda

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Kigali – January 12th, 2018 – Kigali, Rwanda :The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences – Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI), in collaboration with the Office of the Canadian High Commission in Kigali, today organized an industry network and partnership event. The event came to fruition through the strong support of the Government of Rwanda, MasterCard Foundation […]

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MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program Educating Next-Generation Rwandan Scientists

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Dative Tuyisenge has been passionate about sciences, especially mathematics, since her childhood in primary school. But, like many young Rwandans, Tuyisenge, grew up struggling to pay for school fees for her education, which was threatening her dream to become one of acclaimed female scientists both on Rwanda and elsewhere. However, her hope was revived, and […]

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Mathematics and its Applications Workshop organised by AIMS Ghana

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African Mathematicians have been urged to seek constant engagement with industry and define common relationship with the problems of the Continent. In this vain, they could effectively use mathematics to solve problems peculiar to the African environment as most of the problems were said to be inherently Mathematical in structure and dynamics. Professor Louis Aime […]

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