Center officially welcomes national and international students
Africa Center of Excellence for Water Management at Addis Ababa University officially welcomes the third cohort of national and international post-graduate students to its programs on Friday, December 06, 2019.
A total of 35 students have been admitted in three PhD and five MSc programs for the 2019/2020 academic year.
Affiliated faculty of AAU, ACEWM management and staff gathered to officially welcome the students. The event provided a good opportunity to socialize among themselves and the Center staff, faculty and the management.
Speaking at the welcome event, Dr Feleke Zewge, Center Director highlighted that such regional programs are crucial in producing world class scholars with a potential of tackling development challenges, particularly water related challenges.
“The Center, jointly with its national, regional and international partners continues to embark on high quality post-graduate education, training and research through its excellent faculty and carefully recruited young MSc and PhD students,” added Dr. Feleke.
Some students among the participants of the event also expressed their impression of the Center’s commitment to excellence in education, training and research.
Mohammed Ahimed, MSc student from Somalia said, “As water related challenges are serious in the horn Africa particularly posing severe problems to the people of Somalia, I am grateful for this opportunity that would allow me gain expertise knowledge and strive to help my people in dealing with the complications of water shortage and poor water quality.
Eden Eritrea, another MSc student from Ethiopia also mentioned that indispensable role of good quality water management education and research in dealing with water management related challenges in the horn of Africa and beyond.
We are glad to be part of this regional program, as it avails excellent research and fellowship opportunities to come up with good outputs that would assist the development of our country said Samuel Tessema, an Ethiopian PhD student at the Center.
The students were also given a half-day campus tour at the College of Computational and Natural Sciences where they were able to observe important facilities and major laboratories of the University with commentaries by lab assistants and researchers. The students were delighted by the tour as it helps them in understanding where they can conduct their experiments during their study.
ACEWM has enrolled a total of 106 students in three cohorts and graduated two MSc regional students, with more MSc graduates in the pipeline. Center aims to continue admitting more students in the existing programs and new programs to be launched in the future beside the short courses and trainings it provides to professional in the public sector private enterprises and academic institutions.