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10/09/2026
When Trees Become Livelihoods: Dr. Tonthoza Uganja’s Vision for Restoring Malawi’s Farmland
Growing up, Dr. Tonthoza Uganja resented how little of the day seemed to belong to her. In her grandfather’s village of Yesaya in Lilongwe, Malawi, mornings began before school: water to fetch, household chores to finish, fields to work. In a home shared by about sixteen people and sustained largely by the farm, there was […]
03/09/2026
Making Early Detection a Reality for Women in Chad: Dr. Zita Aleyo’s Fight Against Cervical Cancer
For a year after her mother died, Amina lived with the fear that the same illness might be waiting for her. Her mother had bled for months before anyone in the family understood it as a medical problem. In Chad, unexplained illness can sometimes be interpreted through beliefs in witchcraft before medicine is sought. By […]
27/08/2026
Professor Edu Inam’s Map to the Machines That Make Science Work
Long before Professor Edu Inam began mapping Nigeria’s scientific equipment, she learned to make scarce resources stretch. Born during the Nigerian Civil war, she grew up in an extended household of grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. Her father was a civil servant and her mother an elementary-school teacher. As the eldest of six children, Edu […]
21/08/2026
From Potential to Progress: Dr. Nova Pishesha’s Call to Build the Next Generation of Scientific Innovators
At 19, Novalia “Nova” Pishesha arrived in San Francisco from Singosari, a small district in East Java, with about $4,000 and no obvious path into the institutions that would later define her career. Much of the money would disappear into tuition before she’d even found her footing. The rest had to cover a new life. […]
13/08/2026
Transforming Floodwater into Safe Drinking Water: Inside Dr. Hifza Rasheed’s Community-Led Solution
During Pakistan’s 2022 floods, water seemed to erase the distinction between abundance and scarcity. Rivers overflowed, settlements disappeared beneath muddy currents, and millions were displaced. Yet in the camps and inundated villages, families still lacked the one thing surrounding them: water they could safely drink. For Dr Hifza Rasheed, the contradiction was unbearable. She had […]
05/08/2026
Connecting Science to Communities: Dr. Bridget Bannerman’s Mission to Deliver Health Equity
At four each morning in Sierra Leone, before daylight and long before school, Bridget Bannerman was awake. By five, she and her siblings were dressed, books open. Their father, a single parent and educationist who worked through the country’s passage from colonial rule into independence, believed education could enlarge life. He supervised his children’s progress […]
28/07/2026
How Darshana Joshi Is Rewriting Who Gets to Dream in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Born in a remote Himalayan farming community in the District of Almora in Uttarakhand, Dr. Darshana Joshi learned early that ambition can falter simply because it has no one to echo it back. It needs opportunity, encouragement, and people who believe in your potential before you can fully believe in it yourself. A scholarship from […]
23/07/2026
From Ashaiman to the World: Making Mathematics Matter
How Dr. Angela Tabiri is inspiring thousands of young people in Ghana and beyond to see mathematics as a pathway to confidence, creativity, and opportunity. For Dr. Angela Tabiri, mathematics has always represented possibility. Growing up in Ashaiman, an under-resourced community in Accra, Ghana, she saw how easily talented students can lose confidence when […]
16/07/2026
Schlumberger Foundation Honors Nine Women Scientists and Engineers with the 2026 Faculty for the Future Impact Prize
Press Release July 16 2026 – The Schlumberger Foundation is proud to announce the nine recipients of the 2026 Faculty for the Future Impact Prize, a merit-based award that recognizes Fellows who are translating their scientific and engineering expertise into initiatives with demonstrated potential for wider impact. For more than two decades, the Schlumberger […]
21/04/2026
Schlumberger Foundation Celebrates Its 1,000th Faculty for the Future Grant
Press Release April 21, 2026 – The Schlumberger Foundation today announced that its flagship Faculty for the Future program has now funded 1,000 fellows worldwide, following the release of its 2026–2027 grant award recipients. This year, the program awarded 163 grants to outstanding women from low‑ and middle-income countries pursuing PhD and postdoctoral research in […]
27/03/2026
Testing The Waters
New models of river flow are helping countries to share their water more fairly by: Helen Pilcher You can learn a lot about a country by listening to its music. Take the songs of Ethiopia. Many mention the Blue Nile, a major tributary to the Nile River, which rises in the country’s highlands […]
11/02/2026
Celebrating the 2025 Faculty for the Future Visionaries Driving Scientific Progress
In a world where women make up less than one third of the world’s researchers Closing this gender gap is not only a matter of fairness it is essential to the quality, relevance, and impact of science, technology, and innovation. When women and girls are fully included in shaping discovery and decision-making, societies are better […]
19/11/2025
From Experts to Leaders – Faculty for the Future Impact Survey 2025
In 2005 the Schlumberger Foundation created the Faculty for the Future (FFTF) program, boosted by a philanthropic donation of $50m from global technology company, SLB. The program was designed to increase research capability in emerging economies by supporting talented female researchers in science and technology. Twenty years on the FFTF Fellowship now comprises 965 women […]
13/11/2025
Redefining the Trajectory of Neurological Care in Mozambique
Public health initiatives have long driven Africa’s progress in tackling infectious diseases and improving maternal and child health. Yet, as the continent undergoes an epidemiological transition fueled by urbanization and changing lifestyles, non-communicable events such as strokes are emerging as silent killers. Strokes are now a leading cause of adult neurological disability and death worldwide, […]
20/10/2025
Faculty for the Future Forum 2025: A Celebration of Global Women in Science
Cambridge, UK – September 2025 In September 2025, the Schlumberger Foundation proudly hosted the Faculty for the Future Forum 2025 at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, bringing together over 75 exceptional women scientists from across the globe. These Fellows, recipients of the Foundation’s prestigious Faculty for the Future Fellowship, represented more than 35 countries and […]