Dr. Gboyega Adebayo, Acting Head, Department of Physics, College of Physical Sciences (COLPHYS), has been commended for instituting two endowment funds through the award of annual prizes to excellent students in the areas of Solid State Physics and Condensed Matter Physics. A renowned Professor of Solid Physics, Erio Tosatti, lauded Dr. Adebayo’s initiative, saying he had encouraged and supported education and the scientific upbringing of young people upon which high academic standards for the future would be built.

Professor Tosatti lauded Dr. Adebayo, while dedicating the Professor Abdus Salam First Endowment and Prize for Physics, added that "we, scientists are first of all men and women. Our community only flourishes, besides scientific work on discoveries and contacts, proportionally to the amount of human love and respect, we put in the relationships among ourselves, independent of borders and limits. The work which I, and indeed most of us at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and in the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy, carry out every day, is really person-to-person work as much as it is scientific”. He, also, admonished Dr. Adebayo to keep the flag flying and continue to be a shining example to others. Dr. Adebayo, an alumnus of FUNAAB, had responded to the ongoing Call for Endowments by the Advancement Office of the University, by making two principal donations of the sum of Two Hundred Thousand (N200,000) each, to the best 400-level student in the Department of Physics, whose area of specialisation is in Physics or Solid Physics and graduates with a Cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.0 in Solid Physics and 4.5 in Physics, respectively.