South African Partnerships Program

In 1996, the University of Missouri System initiated a new program intended to support projects by UM faculty members in cooperation with other South African institutions and organizations, including historically disadvantaged postsecondary education institutions, governmental agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. 

Since 1997, grants under the UM South African Partnerships Program have funded collaborative work in South Africa by 42 faculty members from the UM System’s four campuses.  Projects carried out under this program have included research on training teachers in writing, language and media literacy; the role of sports in the lives of political prisoners on Robben Island; women painters as guardians of Ndebele culture; statistics; structural health monitoring; community development; wildlife management and conservation; and science education.

2012 Trip Reports

• Peter Motavalli
  •   Evaluation of Soil Quality for Improving Food Security and Sustainability of Irrigated Agroecosystems in Africa.
• Kwame Awuah-Offei
  •   University of the Western Cape & Stellenbosch University
• Rolene Bauer
  •   Marine Polysaccharides for Application in Tumor Therapies

2011 Trip Reports

• Meenakshi Iyer
  • UWC-MU Occupational Therapy Department: Education & Technology Collaboration
• Carla M. Allen
  • Developing and Using an Interdisciplinary & Multi-Institutional Annotated eLearning Repository for the Allied Health Professions
• Arianna String Quartet
  • Outreach and Concert Tour Report

2010 Trip Reports

• Enid Schatz
  • Aging and the Meaning of Health in South Africa

2009 Trip Reports

• Neil Anderson
  • Surface and Borehole Geophysics for Sustainable Groundwater Resource Development and Environmental Protection

• Carole McArthur
  • Collaborative Research on the Mechanism of Salivary Gland Disease

2008 Trip Reports

• Rob Paul
  • Pilot Study of clade C HIV in South Africa
• Enid Schatz
  • Aging and the Meaning of Health in South Africa
• Binfield-Funke-Westhoff
  • The FAPRI-University of Pretoria Collaboration

2007 Trip Reports

• Manjula V. Nathan
  • Use of Phosphorus Desorption Characteristics of Soils in Improving P Fertilizer Use Efficiency of Agronomic Crops in South Africa
• Dr. Venayagamoorthy

2006 Trip Reports

• Dr. P. Leszek Vincent
  • Final report on the research visit to the University of the Western Cape and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2006

2005 Trip Reports

• Adrienne Walker Hoard
  • I Walk with Ndebele: A Historic Art Exhibition
  • Women Warriors: Cultural Guardians of the Ndebele
• Charles Korr
  • More Than Just a game: Football vs. Apartheid on Robben Island Prison
• Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, PhD
  • Computational Intelligenece Techniques Applied to Modeling Herbivore Plant Interactions in African Savannahs
• Pat Westhoff and Ferdinand Meyer
  • FAPRI-University of Pretoria Collaboration

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