{"id":215624,"date":"2016-05-19T17:53:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215624"},"modified":"2016-05-19T17:53:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:53:57","slug":"knust-appoints-prof-kwasi-obiri-danso-as-new-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215624","title":{"rendered":"KNUST appoints Prof. Kwasi Obiri-Danso as new VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has appointed Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso as the new Vice Chancellor of the University, for a four (4) year term effective August 1 2016, to July 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The University\u2019s Council in a press statement released on Thursday May 19 said the decision was taken at the Council\u2019s 238th Special Meeting held today, May 19, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso holds a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in (Biological Sciences) and an MPhil (Food Microbiology) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and a PHD \u2013 Environmental Microbiology) from Lancaster University, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the acting Registrar of KNUST, Ben Andoh, noted that Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso is currently the Provost of the College of Science at the KNUST.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso will be replacing the outgoing VC, Professor William Otoo Ellis, who was also appointed in May 2010.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AfanyiDadzie\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AfanyiDadzie<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has appointed Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso as the new Vice Chancellor of the University, for a four (4) year term effective August 1 2016, to July 21, 2020. The University\u2019s Council in a press statement released on Thursday May 19 said the decision was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":215625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}