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Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University student bags global science award

Star student Priscah Omoke.  [Photo/Courtesy]

A student of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology is the Kenyan winner of the L’Oreal-Unesco for Women in Science award.

Priscah Omoke, a 35-year-old PhD student, is among 14 African women scientists and the only mathematician out of more than 300 entrants in the competition. Her research paper was titled Characterisation of Similarity Orbits of Invariant Sub-spaces of Norm-attainable Operators.

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