Portia Nana Adjoa Plange (BSc.)

STATEMENT OF RECOGNITION OF THE AWARD OF SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BEST FEMALE GRADUATING STUDENT IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Over the past four years, Prof. Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering at Penn State University, has served as a resource person for Prof. Elsie Effah Kaufmann's graduate seminar course, Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering (BME). In a 2018 class discussion on the challenges of BME education in Ghana and recognizing that all previous participants in the course up to that point had been males, Prof. Osseo-Asare decided, as a contribution to promoting diversity, to explore sponsorship of a female graduate student the following year. He was joined by three engineering colleagues: Emeritus Professor Ebo Richardson, Dr. Kwaku Koram, and Dr. Victor Atiemo-Obeng. These senior engineers awarded a full-tuition scholarship in 2019 to the top graduating female Biomedical Engineering student for the 2018 year group to pursue a 2-year MPhil degree program at the department. From left to right, the top picture shows Emeritus Professor Ebo Richardson, Dr. Kwaku Koram, Dr. Victor Atiemo-Obeng and Prof. Kwadwo Osseo-Asare. The bottom picture show (L to R) Madam Kafui Anyasor-Nartey (Department Secretary), Prof. Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, presenting the award to Miss. Portia Nana Adjoa Plange (the recipient) and Prof. Elvis Tiburu (former Head of Department).