Biography:Gladys Ngetich
Gladys Ngetich | |
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.jpg) Ngetich at the Rare Rising Award Ceremony | |
| Born | 1991 (age 32–33) Amalo Village, Nakuru County, Kenya |
| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Citizenship | Kenya |
| Education | Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering) University of Oxford (Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering) (In progress) |
| Occupation | Engineering tutor & doctoral student |
Gladys Chepkirui Ngetich (born c.1991) is a Kenyan engineer, and a Rhodes scholar,[1][2] pursuing a doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom.[3][4] She is the recipient of the Tanenbaum Fellowship and the Babaroa Excellence Award.[5][6]
Background and education
Ngetich was born in Amalo Village, Nakuru County. She attended Lelaibei Primary School in Olenguruone. She studied at Mercy Girls' Secondary School in Kericho.[3] She was admitted to the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering, in 2013.[3]
In 2015, Ngetich joined the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering. In 2016, she earned a Tanenbaum Fellowship, an annual fellowship awarded to Rhodes scholars for a multifaceted program in Israel. In 2018, Ngetich was named a Skoll World Forum Fellow for the work she is doing in Kenya to empower girls and women.[3] She also tutors engineering undergraduate students at Oriel College.[3][7][8]
Achievements/Awards
In 2018, Ngetich was credited with a patent in collaboration with Rolls-Royce Plc.[3] Her research work has been in BBC Science and the Oxford Science Blog and Medium.[3] She received the ASME IGTI Young Engineer Turbo Expo Participation Award, for her paper at the 2018 Annual American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) conference.[3]
Ngetich is the co-founder of the ILUU, a Nairobi-based non-profit that aims to inspire girls and women.[3][9]
In September 2018, Business Daily Africa named Ngitech among its "Top 40 Under 40 Women in Kenya in 2018".[10] In 2019 she started investigating sustainable space science using a Schmidt Science Fellowship.[11] As of 2023, she is involved in satellite and rocket fuel research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[12]
See also
- Frannie Léautier
- Emily Orwaru
- Josephine Wapakabulo
References
- ↑ Rhodeshouse
- ↑ "Rhodes Scholars Class of 2015". 2015. https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/community/list-of-rhodes-scholars/scholars/rhodes-scholars-class-of-2015/.[|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Cherono, Stella (25 July 2018). "Student rejected for 298 KCPE marks shines in the UK". Nairobi. https://www.nation.co.ke/news/-Gladys-Ngetich-rejected-for-298-KCPE-marks-shines-in-UK/1056-4679954-r39yqi/index.html.
- ↑ "Kenyan Girl With 298 KCPE Marks Shines In UK" (in en). Kenyans.co.ke. 2018-07-25. https://www.kenyans.co.ke/news/31708-gladys-ngetich-listed-among-10-rising-stars-uk.
- ↑ Briggs, Helen (2018). "Why are there so few female engineers?" (in en-GB). BBC News. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42655179.
- ↑ Kamasah, Andreas. "'Lazy' student rejected by African schools wins UK's top 10 best students award" (in en-US). https://www.pulse.com.gh/filla/lazy-student-rejected-in-africa-wins-uk-s-best-student-award-id8654617.html.
- ↑ Oriel College (24 July 2014). "Oriel's People: Miss Gladys Chepkirui Ngetich BSc". Oxford: Oriel College, Oxford. https://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/people/miss-gladys-chepkirui-ngetich.
- ↑ Gewin, Virginia (24 Oct 2019). "Where I Work - Gladys Ngetich". Nature 574 (7779): 590. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03077-3. PMID 31641269. https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-019-03077-3/d41586-019-03077-3.pdf.
- ↑ Skoll (24 July 2018). "Gladys Ngetich: Student, Skoll Centre For Social Entrepreneurship". Skoll Foundation. http://skoll.org/contributor/gladys-ngetich/.
- ↑ Business Daily Staff (September 2018). "Top 40 Under 40 Women In Kenya, 2018". Nairobi. https://cdn.nation.co.ke/pdfs/Top40under40Women2018.pdf.
- ↑ Briggs, Helen (2019-07-21). "Five women shaking up the science world" (in en-GB). https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48953793.
- ↑ Udesky, Laurie (30 June 2023). "How to train early-career scientists to weather failure" (in en). Nature: pp. 421–423. doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02168-6. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02168-6.
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