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Picture: Batula Robow, from Kenya, was guided by Afrisnet through her graduate school applications. She is currently a graduate student at Dartmouth College in the USAfrisnet runs an annual mentorship program to assist and support African college students applying for...

Picture: Professor Soni Lacefield (middle) poses for a photo with Caren Jepchirchir (left) and Ibrahim Habib (right). Caren and Habib were recruited from Moi University (Kenya) for laboratory research internship at Indiana University Bloomington in 2022.When you visit...

Samuel Amponsah-Effah, a graduate student mentored by Afrisnet poses for a picture at the University of Southern California campus where he is pursuing his PhD. The United States distinguishes itself in the world in academic research in many dimensions. The research...

Picture: Afrisnet graduate students partake in a webinar delivered by Prof Soni Lacefield on July 16, 2022Afrisnet runs an annual mentorship program to assist and support African college students applying for research-based graduate programs. Since 2019, dozens of...

When the body gets infected, it activates an immune defense that fights off the infection and provides protection against similar infections in the future. Vaccines can also train the body to recognize infectious agents, such as viruses, and fight them off in the...

Recent Research From South Africa is Redefining Our Timeline of Human EvolutionScientists in Southern Africa believe that the surrounding area has had a big contribution to human evolution. The landscape had been dry and hot for some time now so other scientists have...