Pacific Adventist University focuses research into HIV and AIDS, radiation levels
Situated just 10 to 15 minutes’ drive out of the busy Port Moresby, is a hub of enthusiastic young leaders and lecturers who are willing and able to produce PNG’s finest and outstanding future leaders who can exhale in research, science and technology.
An adamant Vice Chancellor of the Pacific Adventist University, Professor Ben Thomas, when speaking at a gathering for a site visit on campus today emphasised on the need for Universities to make RESEARCH an absolute and critical part of its operation.
Professor Thomas was speaking during a site visit by Minister for Higher Education Research Science and Technology, Malakai Tabar, to its Bio Fuel Facility on campus.
“ In this particular case at PAU, we are pushing research in a number of very diverse areas, for example we currently have a research project, which allows for our young people to measure the radiation level, along the Motuan Coastline,” said Professor Thomas.
He said a lot of people would be wondering why they were doing checks on radiation, but the reality is, when the Fukushima plant in Japan was affected by the disastrous earthquake, radiation flowed down into the Pacific Ocean and some of it may be right here at our doorstep.
He added that it was critical for PNG to have a base line that we can compare against to actually know when future events happen and be able to measure the impact.
“Another project that the students are involved with is RESEARCH into HIV and AIDS and how it is transmitted, so that we can be able to find ways of combating the virus, “he added.
Professor Thomas also pointed out that anyone who comes to the University to study has the opportunity to study in the Christian context as well as it believes that it will ago along way for any young person to be given the opportunity to study and have a relationship with Christ. PNG Today/PNGFM
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