Nigeria’s Professor Ilesanmi Adesida Makes History

 

Nigeria’s Professor Ilesanmi Adesida makes history – becomes the first black Provost/Vice Chancellor of the University of Illiinois at Urbana Champaign

 

Nigerians always leave a trail of genius internationally, have you never heard that? Have you worked with a Nigerian? If you have, you will know what am talking about.

We excel once we have an enabling environment. Unfortunately the environment at home is not yet what it should be, so Nigeria continues to lose her brightest minds to the International community.

Africans in the Diaspora continue to make history and break records as we chronicle them in our on-going African Diaspora Series with Rebtel.

 Born in Ondo State, Nigeria, Professor Adesida is a Nigerian engineer whose outstanding work in the field of Nanotechnology has received much acclaim in the scientific community. He obtained his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently went on to develop a body of work in the processing of semiconductors and other materials at the nanometer-scale level. After his studies, he worked in various capacities at what is now known as the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility and the School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He was also the head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria.

 Commenting on his recently appointed role, Adesida said: 

“I’m honored and humbled to be selected as provost of this great campus. This is something I take very seriously. I know how to work very hard and I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and get the job done.”

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