The Governing Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) will on Saturday, August 1, hold an investiture ceremony to induct Professor Rita Akosua Dickson as Vice-Chancellor.
Professor Rita Akosua Dickson will be the first female Vice-Chancellor of the University. She will take over from Prof Kwasi Obiri Danso on August 1, 2020. Her appointment for a four-year term takes effect from August 1, 2020, to July 31, 2024.
The ceremony is expected to come off at the Great Hall Auditorium of the University at exactly 10:00 am.
Brief profile
Prof. Dickson became the first female Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the KNUST on October 1, 2018 when she took over from Rev. Prof. Charles Ansah.
She is an alumna of KNUST and graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1994.
She undertook her national service at the Department of Pharmacognosy and also had her internship at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).
Prof. Dickson obtained her M.Pharm (Pharmacognosy) in 1999 and was appointed a lecturer in 2000.
In 2003, she was awarded a Commonwealth scholarship to pursue her PhD at King’s College, University of London, UK.
After obtaining her PhD, she also acquired a certificate in Academic Practice from the same university.
Prof. Dickson returned to Ghana in 2007 and was promoted to the position of senior lecturer in 2009 and subsequently became an associate professor in 2014.
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