Congratulations to the New Travel Grant Recipients

Greetings again. I hope you’re doing well.

AuthorAID is glad to announce the newest recipients of its travel grants. These grants fund travel by researchers with work accepted for presentation at conferences. The recipients are Dr. Devendra Adhikari, of Nepal, and Mr. Henry Ajumeze, of Ghana.

Dr. Adhikari is a physics professor at Tribhuvan University’s Mahendra Morang Adarsha Multiple Campus, Biratnagar. He will speak at the International Conference on Material Science and Condensed Matter Physics, to be held in Berlin, Germany, on May 22–23.

At the conference, Dr. Adhikari will report some of his research on alloys. He notes that the conference will allow him to “network with leading researchers that can be a source of advice, information, and support to the researchers in my institution”.

Dr. Adhikari has attended AuthorAID research-writing and train-the-trainer workshops. He also has facilitated and spoken at AuthorAID workshops.

Mr. Ajumeze is a postgraduate candidate in the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Ghana, Legon. He will speak at the 43rd annual conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies, to be held in Ottawa, Canada, on May 1–3.

This conference’s theme is Africa Communicating: Digital Technologies, Representation, Power. Mr. Ajumeze’s talk will focus on masks. “My paper,” Mr. Ajumeze writes, “aims to articulate a performance theory using African mask as theoretical paradigm.”

We congratulate Dr. Adhikari and Mr. Ajumeze, and we commend all who took the initiative to apply for these grants.

Until the next post—

Barbara