AuthorAID Grant News: Travel-Grant Recipients, Workshop-Grant Reminder

We are very pleased to announce the newest recipients of AuthorAID travel grants. These grants help researchers from eligible countries to attend international conferences at which they present their work.

The recipients are

• Dr. Dickson Mubera Andala, lecturer, Kenyatta University, Kenya
• Mrs. Geetha Udayangani Kulasekara, lecturer, Open University of Sri Lanka
• Mr. David Musoke, assistant lecturer, Makerere University, Uganda

Dr. Andala is attending the 244th American Chemical Society Meeting and Exposition, which is being held in Philadelphia, USA, on August 19–23. His presentation is titled “Templated Synthesis of Amphiphilic Nanoparticles at the Liquid-Liquid Interface”.

Mrs. Kulasekara will attend the 26th Annual Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities, to be held in Chiba, Japan, on October 16–18. She will present 2 papers. One is on cross-cultural e-mentoring, and the other is on lifelong learning in farmers.

Mr. Musoke will attend the Third All Africa Congress on Environmental Health, to be held in Durban, South Africa, on November 11–14. He too will give 2 presentations. One is on malaria prevention at the household level; the other is on conditions in urban slums in Uganda.

The AuthorAID travel grants remain highly competitive. This time, we received nearly 60 applications, many of which were very good. We commend all who applied for this funding.

Speaking of AuthorAID grants: We remind you that the application deadline for the next set of AuthorAID workshop grants is August 31. We thank American Journal Experts (AJE) for funding 3 of the workshop grants for 2012.