One hundred and seven Graduates since 1998
Through its Postgraduate Training Fellowship programme, OWSD has so far helped 107 young women students to earn their degrees.
The First Graduate
Aderoju Osowole from Nigeria, the first young woman scientist to graduate from the OWSDW's postgraduate fellowship programme. The TWAS Newsletter devoted an article to her: Out of Africa: TWOWS's First Graduate (TWAS Newsletter, Vol. 15 No. 1, Jan-Mar 2003).
The 100th Graduate
Nwe Nwe Htwe was awarded a full-time fellowship that began in January 2007 and ended, after 4 years of intense study, with her successfully defending her PhD thesis in her viva exam in July 2011. The topic of her thesis is "Genetic transformation of rice cultivars for salinity tolerance by particle bombardment".
Distribution by geographical area
| Region | Graduated |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Least Developed Countries Africa |
23 |
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| Other Sub-Saharan African Countries |
52 |
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| Least Developed Countries Asia/Pacific | 23 |
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| Least Developed Countries Arab Region |
9 |
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| Total |
107 |
Graduates by scientific field
| Field | No. |
Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Physics | 7 |
6.5 |
| Mathematics | 10 |
9.3 |
| Chemistry | 19 | 17.8 |
| Biology | 41 | 38.3 |
| Engineering | 2 |
1.9 |
| Earth Sciences |
2 |
1.9 |
| Agriculture | 18 |
16.8 |
| Medical & Health |
8 | 7.5 |
| Total | 107 |
100.0 |
As of March 2012.
