As part of efforts to improve teaching and learning in their alma mater, the Bachelor of Science (BSc) Chemistry 2000 Year Group has donated five desktop computers and accessories to the Department of Chemistry.

The items were presented on behalf of the Group by Dr. Isaac Asiamah, who is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department, along with Pastor Amos Amoh, a member of the Group.

Rationale

Dr. Asiamah said the Group decided to give back to the Department because it gave them the requisite academic foundation that they built upon to become successful.

To that end, members of the Group discussed the lofty idea of the need to assist the Department and through individual contributions of members of the Year Group, the computers were procured.

Dr. Isaac Asiamah( in spectacles) explaining a point to the gathering.

Apart from contributing to the purchase of the computers, Dr. Asiamah singled out Mr. George Maclean Adjabeng, the Chief Executive Officer of Ecodyst for also donating EcoChyll and other glass wares to the Department.

Other contributors, Dr. Asiamah mentioned, included Prof. Frederick Ato Armah, a former Director of the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy-UCC; Mr. Abdul Samad Issah; Mr. Eric Mensah; Mr. Castro Kofi Akordor and Pastor Amos Amoh.

While urging the Department to put in place a proper maintenance regime to ensure the equipment were kept in good shape, Dr. Asiamah indicated that the Group would continue to support the Department in various endeavours and urged other year groups to emulate their shining example.

Commendation

The Head of the Department, Prof. Victor Y.A Barku, who described the presentation as a timely intervention, expressed appreciation to the group for the donation.

He said the items donated by the Year Group will go a long way to improve the academic activities of post-graduate studies.

Prof.  Barku gave assurance that the equipment would be put to good use and kept in good working order to encourage the Group to donate more equipment in the future.

Prof. Victor Y.A Barku (2nd from left),Head of the Department of Chemistry, and Prof. Ernest Yankson (4th from left), Dean of the School of Physical Sciences, and other faculty members after the donation 

The Head of the Department also made a passionate appeal to other year groups and corporate bodies to support the Department by emulating the kind gesture of the BSc Chemistry 2000 Year Group.

The Dean of the School of Physical Sciences, Prof. Ernest Yankson, also thanked the old students for the kind gesture and said the items presented would facilitate quality teaching and learning.

He tasked the Department to take good care of the equipment.

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC