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Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant awards recipient for 2021

fter a continent-wide search, with entries from 27 countries across Africa, award-winning Dr Gideon Idowu from the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) in Nigeria, has become the third recipient of the annual Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer (JWO) Research Grant of US$150 000 (around R2,3 million). The grant was awarded to Idowu in early November at

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