The United Nations has selected a Microbiologist with the Federal University of Akure, Ondo State, Dr. Daniel Arotupin, to participate in its Zero-Gravity Instrument Project.

According to a statement by the UN expert on Space Applications, Mr. Takao Doi, Arotupin, an associate professor, will be the lead participant in the exercise to be domiciled in Akure.

Doi said the selection of FUTA would come with a grant of a non-commercial donation of a micro-gravity simulation instrument called Clinostat, alongside other supplementary items to enable Arotupin to examine the proposed scientific educational and related activities under the aegis of the UN office of Outer Space Affairs.

Doi said, “The “Zero-Gravity Instrument Project” was initiated in 2012 as part of the Human Space Technology Initiative’s capacity-building activities, in which a fixed number of microgravity-simulating instruments, called Clinostats, have been distributed to selected schools and institutions worldwide.

“The major objectives of the project are to provide unique opportunities for students and researchers to observe natural phenomena of samples under simulated microgravity conditions on the ground, and to inspire them to undertake further study in the field of space science and technology.

The project is also aimed at creating datasets of plant species with their gravity response, which would contribute to designing future space experiments, and to the advancement of microgravity research.”

Congratulating Arotupin, the FUTA Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, said the UN and its affiliated agency had found a tested academic to drive the research project.
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Good one for the Dr. and the University.

Thumbs up!! Our academia needs to place research once more on the front burner.

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