ExxonMobil has funded the purchase of US$40,000 ($8.4m) worth of equipment for the Physics Lab at the University of Guyana which was destroyed by a fire in 2015.
A release yesterday from UG said that its Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Statistics received the equipment after a request was made following the fire in 2015.
The release said that the fire obliterated a section of the Faculty of Natural Sciences building which housed the equipment for various departments. Among the items destroyed in the fire were all the physics laboratory equipment belonging to the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, the Computer Sciences Department equipment and the specimen collections and equipment from the Department of Biology. The Faculty also lost critical research in the areas of online education and information technologies, renewable energy technologies, biodiversity and ecosystems assessment and natural resources management.
