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The Prestea/Huni-Valley Municipal Director of Education, Madam Mary Vida Kwofie, has said that Information Communication Technology (ICT) has changed the face of education on the globe, especially in this era. She said without ICT, the world would have come to a complete standstill with the adverse effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

THE ‘Yamoransa Model Lab 7’ equipped with 50-seater computers with a conference room has been inaugurated at Nkonya Ahenkro in the Oti Region, to help prepare Ghanaian students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

The President of Helping Africa Foundation (HAF) said the purpose of the Yamoransa Model Labs was meant to expand ICT education across the country in truly sustainable ways to promote teaching and learning.

Osiris-Rex is a NASA probe sent to collect rock from an asteroid several hundred million kilometres from Earth. The mission's primary goal is to obtain a sample of at least 60 g (2.1 oz) from Bennu, a carbonaceous near Earth asteroid and return the sample to Earth for a detailed analysis.

When COVID-19 hit Ghana, 27-year-old Joshua Opoku Agyemang, and his team at the Internet of Things (IoT) Hub in Accra, did not come up with just one mit­igating solution, they invented three! Under the umbrella term “Hack CoronaV” they have so far developed: Touchless Washing Buckets; 3-D Printed Reusable and Recyclable Facemasks; and an AI-powered Smart Home System.

In the thick of a stage performance or during a rehearsal, Duke Ellington, the iconic orchestral jazz impresario (of the Cotton Club, Harlem – New York) used to jump for joy, literally, when one of his horn players hit an exceptionally inspiring note. Blown out of his mind, he’d yell, “Yea, that’s the one!”

A recent TV interview of Ken Frazier on the race for a reliable Covid-19 vaccine was so captivating and educative that we sought to share the transcript in this column. He was interviewed by Tsedal Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.

"Remember the gory lessons of history or be doomed to repeat them"

Professor Herbert Winful is a proud winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award 2020. He received the Award “for pioneering the field of nonlinear optical periodic structures and for foundational contributions to nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor laser arrays.”