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Women scientists who are nationals or permanent residents of any country in Sub-Saharan Africa have until 28 February 2012 to apply for the 2012 L’ORÉAL/UNESCO Regional fellowships For Women in Science in Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of the fellowship is to assist women scientists to achieve a PhD degree in all fields of science. Ten fellowships to the value of US$20,000 will be awarded. The age limit for the applicants is 40 years.

Applications can be made on the online application platform beginning January 1st. In the meantime, you can access the information required for the application at: www.ansti.org All questions should be addressed via email to: unesco-loreal@ansti.org or via mail to The Coordinator, ANSTI-UNESCO, UNESCO Nairobi Office, P.O Box 30592, 00100, Nairobi, Kenya.

More Information: http://www.ansti.org/index.php/women-in-science-in-sub-saharan-africa

PDF of Call for Applications: http://bit.ly/lorealcall

New Website Look

June is youth month and to commemorate it we have begun to change our look. We are working on being “youthful” and fresh. The changes on the website will be gradual but are aimed at making the experiences of users as easy as possible while highlighting important information. We are also streamlining all of our social media, we are available on:

Facebook: http://facebook.com/TsogoHighSchool
Twitter: http://twitter.com/tsogoalum
LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/tsogo

Update Your Details

Yes its a constant drone, but it takes a couple of minutes and lets us structure our approach to providing you with information and connecting you to other alumni. Please update your details: http://bit.ly/tsogocontact We are still working on a system that will allow you to review your details in future.

What you can do as an Alumnus

There a number of things you can do to help the Alumni cause:

Volunteer your time at some of the events that will be coming up later in the year
Volunteer your skills to keep the Alumni Website Running
Offer feedback to our newsletters, articles etc.
Get other alumni connected to us by referring them to the website
Offer to mentor other young alumni
Provide information about opportunities to others (Work/Education)

The list really does go on.

Youth Month

As it is youth month, we want to highlight the Mail and Guardians 200 Young South African List: http://ysa2011.mg.co.za/

We also have our own running series of Alumni Profiles that you can browse: http://tsogoalumni.org.za/category/alumni-profiles

Where you connect from in South Africa

Just some short tech facts. Our website visitors connect from all over the country. The largest concentration is in Pretoria and Johannesburg but as you can see form the map below the connections are varied.