We are happy to announce the following Fall 2005 WARC Travel Grants Awards.

Three (3) WARC Research Members were awarded for the Fall 2005.

Selected grantees for Fall 2005

• Dr Olagorite Adetula
  PhD, National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria
  Plant and Animal Genome Conference
  Conference in San Diego,California, USA, January 14-18, 2006
  E-mail: olagorite@yahoo.com
  

• Dr Issiaka Youssoupha
  Ph.D,Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey
  Accès à la banque de données de Wetlands International, Maîtrise du logiciel de traitement des données, échanges avec les spécialistes de la convention
  Research in Dakar, Sénégal, January 2006
  E-mail: youssoufa_maiga@yahoo.fr
  
  
• Dr Peter Apata Olubambi
  PhD, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria
  Doctoral student at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburgh, South Africa
  Hydrometallurgical Process Development for Zinc and Copper extraction from Nigerian Ores
  Conference in San Antonio, Texas, USA, March 12-16, 2006
  E-mail: oluwalapatami@yahoo.co.uk , polubambi@yahoo.com , polubambi@prme.wits.ac.za

Alternates:

• Dr Bello Farouk Umar
  PhD, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria
  Factors Affecting Tubewell Adoption by Farmers in a semi-arid area of Northern Nigeria
  Conference in Beijing, China, February 25-28, 2006
  E-mail: bfumar@yahoo.com
  
  
• Dr Babacar Mbaye
  PhD, The evergreen State College, Olympia, USA
  Marcus Garvey's influence on French West Africans' Decolonization Sruggle
  Research in Dakar, Sénégal, May 17-20, 2006
  E-mail: mbayeb@evergreen.edu

The West African Research Association (AROA), on behalf of its member associations (The West African Research Association/WARA; West African Research Center /WARC; and CAORC, Council of American Overseas Research Centers) would like to thank you for your recent submission to the grant committee. The Travel Grant awards were generally of a high quality. Unfortunately, we have limited funds, and are able to award only a few per academic year (three for the Fall 2005).
We would like to encourage researchers who are not among the grantees to re-apply for future consideration (Fall 2006). As this is our fourth year it is up to us to demonstrate that there is a great demand for these grants by consistently demonstrating the significant demand coming from West Africa, we have a better chance of securing additional funding to increase the amount available for grants.
For your information, about ten countries were represented among the submission which we received this september 2005 session.

Write us if you have more questions, at warc_croa@yahoo.fr
The awardees should be in touch with Jennifer Yanco, the WARA Director for the continuation related to the grant.