The 5th Pearl of Africa Lecture series was organized by the Department of Physics and was held on 12th October 2016. The presenter of the day was Dr. Linda Sapochak, Division Director, Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation (NSF).
Dr. Sapochak discussed the Vision and Goal, of the US National Science Foundation as an opportunity to interest staff at CoNAS to apply for research grants from the NSF. The agency accepts about 45,000 proposals annually and disburses about $7billion of award through it’s a diverse funding mode.
