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Byline: datta003 The Chemistry Department of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has announced that it has developed potassium hydroxide from cocoa pod waste and the chemical is one of the raw materials used for producing potassium permanganate for water treatment.

When Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang assumed office in October, she was unequivocal about her vision for Ghana's prestigious institution: "To make the University of Cape Coast one of the preferred global institutions that provide cutting-edge intellectual orientation for effective leadership.

While lecturing at the University of Cape Coast in the 1970s she was also appointed to the board of directors of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and the Arts Council of Ghana.

Byline: shiv03 President John Evans Atta Mills last Saturday inspected some projects under construction at the Cape Coast polytechnic and the University of Cape Coast (UCC) being funded under the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFunD).

Dr Konotey-Ahulu, who is Kwegyir Aggrey Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, says in the BMJ article that his task of genetic counselling in Harley Street (London) is made easier by saying to parents and would-be parents, think twice before you increase the burden of sickle cell disease in the next generation, lest your children end up on morphine and diamorphine pumps.

SG2000 have established scholarship schemes at several universities, including the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, the Alemaya University of Agriculture in Ethiopia, and Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania.

He is also Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Byline: sanjayV03 One of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary aspirants for Cape Coast, Dr Philip Ebow Bondzi-Simpson, a lecturer at the Business Department of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), has stated that he would make Cape Coast the medical center of Africa, considering its existing medical, nursing and training facilities as well as its strategic geographical location to help Africans gain access to quality medical care.