UDS Pro-Vice-Chancellor wins International Award

Tamale, July 25, GNA- Professor Kaku Sagary Nokoe, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University for Development Studies (UDS) has won the "Rob Kempton Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Biometry in the Developing World". Biometry deals with the effective applications of the mathematical, statistical and computational methods in Biology and the life sciences.

The award was announced at the 23rd conference of the International Biometric Society (IBS) held in Montreal, Canada on Tuesday, July 18, 2006.

A press release issued to the media on Tuesday and signed by the public relations officer of the UDS Mr. George Debrie said the citation accompanying the award recognised Professor Nokoe for been instrumental in the founding of the Sub-Saharan Network of IBS (SUSAN) in the late 1990's and for his continued role in the expansion of Biometrics and training within Africa.

Professor Nokoe hatched the idea for the Network at the 5th Scientific Conference of the East, Central and Southern Africa Chapters of the IBS held in Kenya in September 1997.

Professor Nokoe is the first recipient of the award. The British and Irish Regions of the IBS unanimously nominated him for it, with letters of support from groups in Africa and the French Region. Professor Nokoe had his education at St. Peter's Secondary School, Nkwatia-Kwahu, Ghana, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and the University of British Columbia, Canada.

He joined the UDS as a Professor of Applied Mathematics in October 2003 and was elected as the Pro- Vice-Chancellor in October 2005.