The National University of Samoa (NUS) has announced its first female Vice Chancellor and President in Associate, Professor Tuifuisaa Patila Amosa.
Tuifuisaa is an oceanographer by profession, and has been a lecturer at the NUS for over two decades and was Dean of the Faculty of Sciences.
She was educated at Samoa College and was a graduate of the NUS university preparatory year before taking up a government scholarship at Flinders University in Australia.
Tuifuisa’a is also a graduate of the University of Otago in New Zealand, and holds a Masters in Environmental Science and a PhD in chemistry and ocean acidification.
