OWSD, UNIPORT Nigeria

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This year John Maddox Prize 2022 has been awarded to Dr. Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi of the University of Port Harcourt from a field of over 50 International nominations.
The John Maddox Prize recognizes the works of individuals who show courage and integrity to promote science and evidence, advancing the public discussion around difficult topics despite challenges or hostility. The prize is a joint initiative of the organization Sense about Science and the leading International Scholarly Journal Nature. The judges were greatly impressed with Eucharia's efforts in researching polluted sites in the Niger Delta and in engaging communities and companies in gathering evidence and trialling remediation. Congratulations Global Ambassador of Uniport, the Goldfish 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Glad to announce that our own Dr. Ugochi Okengwu has been selected as a Supervisor in the Programme,PhD in Data Science, quantunleapafrica.org.
You can use the link below to apply. https://quantumleapafrica.org/course/phd-in-data-science/
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Our own Dr Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi has been selected as one of KOKO's Best 20 Nigerian Women in Science.
Dr Nwaichi is an environmental biochemist, soil scientist and toxicologist. She is one of Nigeria’s shining lights in the sciences, as far as research and awareness are concerned. The astute scientist whose work focuses on waste management, pollution prevention and phytoremediation – the treatment of environmental problems (bioremediation) through the use of local plants that mitigate the environmental problem without the need to excavate the contaminant material and dispose of it elsewhere, is an expert in elimination of toxic heavy metal such as cadmium, copper, mercury, lead and arsenic from contaminated soil.
She is currently the president OWSD, UNIPORT Nigeria . Ma congratulations and thank you for making us proud once again.

You are cordially invited to the OWSD, Nigeria 6th biennial international conference to be held at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. See the fliers below for more details.

We keep moving. , UNIPORT NIGERIA

OWSD, UNIPORT also congratulates her own Prof. Chioma Blaise Chikere who won the Society for Applied Microbiology Conference Abstract Grant (for the third time) to attend the 32nd annual conference of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe geographic unit happening at Copenhagen.

OWSD, UNIPORT!!! WE MOVE

This 2022, the president of OWSD, UNIPORT branch, Dr. Eucharia Nwaichi was announced as one of the three award winners of Africa Evidence Leadership Award (AELA) 2022. Ma, the entire OWSD, UNIPORT celebrate this great achievement and thank you for setting the pace. . Below is a brief profile of our able president as written by the AELA team

Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi is an Associate Professor, a seasoned environmental biochemist, director of exchange and linkages, and president of the Organization for Women in Science in the Developing World at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She has been described as ‘One of Nigeria's shining lights in the Sciences’ by Leadership magazine in 2017, the awardee of the Evidence Leader by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) in 2020, and recognised for her great efforts by Silverbird Television as one of ‘16 Prominent Nigerian Women That Excel in Science and Research’.

The Africa Evidence Network is proud to celebrate Eucharia as an evidence champion whose work has generated credible and robust evidence addressing sustainable development goals focusing on poverty, health, water and sanitation, climate change and sustainable cities. Some highlights of her recent works includes;

In 2017 she embarked on advocacy initiatives with the Ministry of Environment for uptake of her patented remedial technology in the approved protocol for remediation of polluted soils. Her significant interventions brought about evidence-informed decision making in a government department enlisting biological technology for polluted soil clean-up option given advanced advantages from evidence generated from her work.

In 2020, using a secured grant, she engaged an agency of government, the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) and this brought about the formation of an Evidence team of policymakers and technical staff of the agency and researchers that worked closely with her for ten months. The project focused on the development of guidelines for Evidence use in NNMDA, building capacity for formulating contexts, accessing, appraising, synthesis and application of evidence in decision-making and the project produced five policy briefs and launched guidelines.

In 2020 using her grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry, she produced robust evidence in the inclusion and diversity challenges faced in the practice of Chemistry.

-SA


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