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Mawazo Breaks Own Graduation Records in 2025!!!!

In 2025, the Mawazo institute grew our network to 152 African women researchers as we welcomed 60 new Fellows and broke our own record for...

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A Snapshot of Women Leading Change in Science & Society 

On Thursday 13th November, the Mawazo Institute joined the Schlumberger Foundation in launching their latest Faculty for the Future Impact Survey and co-hosting a breakfast...

Mawazo Co-sponsors a Girls in STEM Career Day

The keynote speaker for the Career Day was Dr. Damaris Parsitau, a lecturer at Egerton University and the Executive Director of Let Masaai Girls Learn...

Nairobi Ideas Explainer: Plastics

What is plastic? At their most basic, all plastics are polymers. From the Greek word ‘Polumeros’ meaning ‘having many parts’, polymers are large molecules made...

Meet the Mawazo Board: An Interview with Board Chair, Rachel Strohm

In October of this year, the Mawazo Institute board met for its first annual board meeting, culminating a months-long recruitment and induction process. Chaired by...

2019 Breaking Barriers: 30 And Under Women In Stem

As part of Africa Science Week-Kenya (ASW-Kenya 2019), we celebrated six Kenyan women who are 30 and under, and breaking barriers as young, female, scientists....

A Living Laboratory: Mawazo Visits the Mpala Research Centre

In December 2018, Mpala’s Executive Director, Dr. Dino Martins, invited Mawazo to visit the centre after we profiled him for our Africa Science Week-Kenya 2018...

‘Women In Science,’ At the 8th National Science and Technology Exhibition Week

The panelists, selected by Mawazo, were: Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango (Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research Production and Extension at JKUAT), Dr. Jemimah Njuki (Senior Program Officer...

“Science is Everything We See:” Mawazo Attends National Science Week

An eager student from Moi Girls High School put up her hand, “Science is everything we see, everything we are, what we are sitting on…...

Preparing Scholars to Be Leaders: The Mawazo Leadership Retreat

This is why, in November 2018, the Mawazo Institute in partnership with DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service), hosted a leadership training retreat for our...