A Senior Lecturer in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Dr. (Mrs) Oluwatoyin Olaseinde, has won a 25,000 dollars grant of the Carnegie Corporation of New York through the African Materials Science and Engineering Network (AMSEN), under the auspices of the Regional Initiatives in Science and Education (RISE).
Olaseinde, a Corrosion Engineer and RISE scholar, responded to call for proposals to establish research groups among the five networks under RISE, comprising FUTA; University of Nairobi, Kenya; University of Namibia, Windhoek; University of Botswana, Gaborone; and University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Her proposal scaled through and won the only one for AMSEN covering Nigeria and the other countries. The grant is for the establishment and expansion of research group in FUTA with the aim of training the trainers.
Accordingly, Mrs Olaseinde has set up a laboratory named Advanced Materials and Electrochemical Research Group (AMERG) laboratory, located in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, FUTA
During a recent working visit to the AMSEN group, the Executive Director, Science Initiative Group (SIG), Arlen Hastings, in company of the Programme Associate, Sarah Rich, commended Olaseinde’s delivery on the project.
Responding to the feat, the vice chancellor, Professor Adebiyi Daramola, said “the RISE programme has been of consistent help in developing next level academic in Africa. One of the grants that have remained consistent to us is from RISE.
“This has helped to develop our faculties through staff development and attendance at international conferences. This has really exposed our upcoming academic globally.”