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To: The General Public
UNIVERSITY OF THE
SACRED HEART GULU WILL HOST A FELLOW FROM THE CARNEGIE AFRICAN DIASPORA FELLOWSHIP
PROGRAM
The Vice
Chancellor, University of the Sacred Heart Gulu is pleased to announce that the
University of the Sacred Heart Gulu has been selected by the Carnegie African Diaspora
Fellowship Program to host a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow. Dr. Stephen Obol
Opiyo from the Ohio State University was awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program
(CADFP) to travel to Uganda and work with University of the Sacred Heart Gulu from
1st – 30th
November 2018 on a Collaborative Project that will focus on Curriculum
Co-development of Introduction to Data Science‚ Research Methodology‚
Statistics‚ Advanced Excel‚ and R Open Source Statistical Software.
University of the Sacred Heart Gulu is a new University
established in Gulu, Uganda with the mission “to contribute to personal and social healing, growth and holistic development”.
The University was granted Provisional License in 2016 by the Uganda National
Council for Higher Education (NHCE) with its first programs being run in the
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Dr. Stephen Opiyo, is a Bio-informatics Research Scientist
from Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio (USA) and a Data
Scientist/Consultant at Patira Data Science and an affiliated Scientist at
Bioscience East and Central Africa - ILRI in Nairobi. He facilitated the Data
analysis training using Ms. Excel at the University of the Sacred Heart Gulu in
July 2017.
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, now in its
fifth year, is designed to increase Africa’s brain circulation, build capacity
at the host institutions, and develop long-term, mutually-beneficial
collaborations between universities in Africa and the United States and Canada.
It is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by the Institute
of International Education (IIE) in collaboration with United States
International University-Africa (USIU-Africa) in Nairobi, Kenya, which
coordinates the activities of the Advisory Council. A total of 335 African
Diaspora Fellowships have now been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa
since the program’s inception in 2013.
Dr. Stephen Opiyo will work with University of the Sacred
Heart Gulu on developing curriculum/ content on Research Methods and Data
Analysis, conducting Data Analysis training and Assessment of training to be conducted.
For more information on other projects, hosts and scholars,
see the full
list at: https://www.iie.org/en/Programs/Carnegie-African-Diaspora-Fellowship-Program/Selected-Projects/May-2018