We are happy to announce the following Spring 2007 WARC Travel Grants Awards.

Three (3) WARC Research Members were awarded for the Spring 2007 competition.

Selected grantees for Spring 2007

• Dr. Rose KORANG -OKRAH
  Doctoral student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  "Risk and Resilience: Perspectives of Ghanaian Widows on the Loss of Property Rights"
  Ghana, Social Work
  E-mail: rkorang2@uiuc.edu
  

• Dr. Lucy MANDE NDIP
  Faculty in the Dept of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Buea
  "Genotypic characterization of Ehrlichia species in Cameroon"
  Cameroon, Medical Microbiology
  E-mail: lndip@yahoo.com
  
  
• Dr. Batamaka SOME
  Faculty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  "Men's Cotton, Women's Cotton, and Intra-household Negotiations: Gender Dynamics in Rural Southwest Burkina Faso"
  Burkina Faso, Anthropology.
  E-mail: some@uiuc.edu
  

Alternates:

• Dr. Nwando ACHEBE
  PhD, student Michigan State University
  "Gendered Politics in a Changing Space: Colonialism and the Invention of a Female Igbo King"
  Nigeria, African History
  E-mail: achebe@msu.ed

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 Spring 2007).
We would like to encourage researchers who are not among the grantees to re-apply for future consideration (Fall 2007). As this is our fifth 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 March 2007 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.