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Collen Zalengera, Commonwealth Scholar from Malawi

Malawian Scholar to present poster at Planet under Pressure conference

Collen Zalengera, a Commonwealth Scholar from Malawi, will be giving a poster presentation at the Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference, being held in London next March. This major international conference will focus on solutions to the global sustainability challenge, and form an important input to the Rio+20 conference (United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development) in [...]

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Shona Robison MSP with Commonwealth Scholars studying at Scottish institutions

Scottish Minister announces second set of Commonwealth Saltire Professional Fellows

Shona Robison MSP, Scottish Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport, has announced the selection of the second cohort of Commonwealth Saltire Professional Fellows. Three Fellows from Rwanda will come to Scotland in January 2012 for a three-month programme hosted at Heriot-Watt University by the Rwanda-Scotland Alliance. The Minister announced the newly-selected Fellows while addressing new [...]

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Shaheen during her talk

Environmental research presentation

Shaheen Begum (2008 Commonwealth Scholar from Pakistan, PhD in Environment, University of York) recently presented part of her PhD research at the International Conference on the Status and Future of the World’s Large Rivers (organised by BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna in April 2011 in Vienna). More than 550 abstracts had [...]

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Hasiya Bayero Paediatric Hospital

Commonwealth Scholar’s role in designing new hospital

Dr Joseph Oyediran Popoola held a Commonwealth Scholarship to study for a PhD in Environmental Planning at the University of Nottingham in 1981. He is a consultant architect at Poparch Associates Ltd. Kaduna Nigeria. Joseph has worked on the Hasiya Bayero Paediatric Hospital, Kano Nigeria, a 120-bed facility and the first of its kind of Nigeria, [...]

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Joseph Fuwape

Fellow contributes to bio-energy research

Professor Joseph Adeola Fuwape was awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship at the University of North Wales, Bangor, in 1991. His research interests include pyrolytic conversion of plant biomass to bio-fuel, design/construction and performance evaluation of solar timber kiln, bio-chemical conversion of cellulose materials to ethanol and bio-diesel synthesis from pure plant oil. In 2009, Joseph was [...]

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Split-site Scholar furthers understanding of agriculture and climate change

Dr Nicholas Ozor, who held a split-site scholarship at the University of Reading, 2005 – 2006, is currently Project Co-ordinator on a number of projects that look at innovation in agriculture and the relation between agriculture and climate change. Universities, Business and Research in Agricultural Innovation, for the Danish International Development Agency, 2010-2014 Building Trans [...]

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