Archive for 'Sciences'

Rwanda : WORLD SCIENCE DAY CELEBRATED IN SOURHTERN PROVINCE

The Southern Province of Rwanda recently celebrated the World Science Day, in Huye district. The celebrations were organized by the Faculty of Science in the National University of Rwanda where different departments exhibited to the public their scientific different activities. The Celebrations to mark the World Science Day 2012 was organized in the multipurpose conference [...]

Rwanda : Rwanda celebrates World Science day

Various higher learning institutions in Rwanda gathered at Institut Superieur de l’Enseignement (Institute of Higher Education) INES-RUHENGERI to mark the World Science day. Under the national theme “Chemistry, the key for sustainable development”, different participants including Academicians, Scientists, and Industrial Businessmen debated dynamics around chemistry as a science and the outcome that it should bring [...]

Rwanda : Don calls private sector to invest in research

  Education officials visit science exhibition stands during the science day celebrations (courtesy photo) The private sector in Rwanda has been called upon to invest in science research to ensure sustainable national development. The call was made by the Rector of the Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) Prof. George Njoroge during the World Science Day [...]

IRST produces alcohol from sugar waste

Through its research program, the Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IRST) has reached another level of producing alcohol that can be used in hair dressing, medical purposes and other research related activities. Although alcohol is made from sugary products with yeast (strains of yeast commonly used as a leavening agent in baking bread and [...]

A WIN-WINProject, Science and Economics justify Lake Kivu’s Methane Extraction;

Rwanda’s Lake Kivu project is expected to earn US$25 billion in the coming 50 years from the methane gas project currently undertaking place, if all the 60bn cubic Meters of methane banked beneath the lake are extracted. As a natural law, all many other projects’execution usually comes with consequences such as mineral mining’s degradation ofenvironment; [...]

Science Experiments for Pupils

  Science is the explanation of whatever is happening around us in a logical way. There are certain things in nature, the mechanism of which we know by heart and those simple mechanisms lay the foundation for greater happenings.   Initially when man was ignorant he did not know about these simple things that happen [...]