We are happy to share this interview with chemical and environmental engineer Zubeda ukundimana, Ph.D, a 2024 OWSD-The Elsevier Foundation award winner in #WASH who is striving to make sure that Rwandan villages like her own have access to clean drinking water, through innovative research on landfill and other wastewater treatment. #womeninscience #womeninSTEM #womeninWASH
The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
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Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia 5.742 follower
An international forum to unite and provide financial and career support to women scientists from the developing world.
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The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) is an international forum to unite eminent women scientists from the developing and developed worlds with the objective of strengthening their role in the development process and promoting their representation in scientific and technological leadership. OWSD provides research training, career development and networking opportunities for women scientists throughout the developing world at different stages in their careers. Its programmes include PhD and Early Career fellowships and an annual award. OWSD is also a membership organization with more than 5000 members worldwide and National Chapters in dozens of countries. OWSD is based at the offices of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), in Trieste, Italy. It is a programme unit of UNESCO.
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https://owsd.net
Link esterno per The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
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- Organizzazioni senza scopo di lucro
- Dimensioni dell’azienda
- 2-10 dipendenti
- Sede principale
- Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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- Non profit
- Data di fondazione
- 1987
- Settori di competenza
- international development, capacity building, career development, higher education funding, grant funding, leadership training, science development e women's leadership
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Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, IT
Dipendenti presso The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
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Erin Johnson
Communications officer, the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, the World Academy of Sciences
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Ivonne Téllez Patarroyo International Law and International Relations
United Nations International Law Fellowship Program
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Dr Nahla Gomaa
University Professor, Researcher, Editor, Global fellow, and a member of Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD),
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Dr Caroline Pule, MScMedSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist|Molecular Biologist |TB & Genomics| Chairperson-OWSD SA| M&G 200YoungI Goodwill Ambassador-SANTA| Motivational…
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Congratulations to our Early Career fellow Mavis Agyeiwaa Acheampong, who has received a PLOS Pathogens award for early career mycologists at the V International Symposium on Fungal Stress #ISFUS in Brazil. Read our interview with Mavis to learn more about her work: https://lnkd.in/d79rXDGd
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On #InternationalCoffeeDay, we shine a light on the work of our Early Career fellow Kassaye Tolessa Sherge from Ethiopia, whose work with near infrared spectroscopy at Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research is contributing to faster, easier & more accurate assessment of coffee quality. Research we can all appreciate. Thank you Dr. Sherge! ☕️
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🎉 Our 2019 Early Career fellow Mavis Owureku-Asare, Ph.D, PCQI has been named as one of Ghana's Women of the Year 2024 by GLITZ Africa, for her excellence in technology! 📰 For more about Mavis check out our profile of her here: https://lnkd.in/dWSYTz2q 🍅 For more about her organization Impact Food Hub and how it is transforming food research and product development: https://lnkd.in/dvVpV4Qp
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📢 We are thrilled to announce the 55th National Chapter of OWSD worldwide - Iraq. Hosted at the University of Raparin, the new chapter hopes to support Iraqi women scientists to thrive in both academic and entrepreneurial and business settings: https://lnkd.in/ddDGncRc
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Another new OWSD alumna to celebrate today! 2021 fellow Regina Nakiranda from Uganda has graduated from North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit in South Africa with her PhD in nutrition. Her thesis focused on the immune effects in infants of daily egg consumption. Congrats Dr. Nakiranda!
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📽 OWSD Early Career fellow Khongorzul Batchuluun is building a biobank in Mongolia, to help provide future generations with the data they'll need to tackle cancer and other aging-related diseases. Learn more about her initiative in our latest OWSD Visions film: https://bit.ly/3zhHWfr
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Deadline reminder! The Call for Applications for the 2025 OWSD-The Elsevier Foundation Awards in inclusive health closes next Monday, September 16. If you've already started an application, make sure you submit it before the deadline! https://lnkd.in/eVZ3DKVR
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🎉 Today we celebrate our fellow Nokuphila Simelane from Eswatini, who has graduated with her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from University of Johannesburg. Dr. Simelane's PhD research focused on using photodynamic effects for better diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer. We are proud to support you!
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📣 We are thrilled to announce the selection of our first OWSD WISDOM Scholars - displaced or refugee women scientists who will be undertaking Master's degrees in STEM subjects at The Hashemite University in Jordan. These 10 women were selected from a pool of 129 eligible applicants - read more @ bit.ly/OWSDWISDOM2024
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