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A Passion for Change Leads to Political Career

Submitted by Andra Williams on August 9, 2016 - 11:32am

2009 Borlaug LEAP Fellow, Dr. Eusebius Mukhwana is passionate about creating change for the better. As a veterinarian, he expressed his passion through caring for animals. As a professor, he transferred that passion to others through teaching. And now, as he pursues government work, he is taking that passion for change to the policy-makers themselves as the Deputy Commission Secretary in charge of Planning, Research and Development at the Commission for University Education (CUE) in Kenya.

2013 LEAP Fellow Assoumane Maiga Wins Prestigious Oklahoma State University Award

Submitted by Andra Williams on May 12, 2016 - 2:38pm

Assoumane Maiga with OSU advisors

2013 Borlaug LEAP Fellow Assoumane Maiga has worn many hats during his professional and academic career: English teacher and translator in his native Mali, PhD student in Agricultural Education at Oklahoma State University (OSU), and Fulbright scholar.  And now he can add winner of the Research Excellence Award in the OSU Graduate College Group V, Education category.  His dissertation, titled “An Assessment of the Media’s Role in Disseminating News and Information to Farmers After the Cessation of Armed Conflicts in the Republics of Côte d’Ivoire and Mali”, was selected out of many highly r

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