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Webinar Theme: The IBM Academic Initiative - Access to new technologies and educational resources from IBM

Date: Wednesday October 7, 2020

Time: 10.00am

To register and join the Webinar, click on this link

Staff from the ICT Centre, Faculty and Students from the School of Computing and Informatics are highly encouraged to attend.

Attendance of the webinar is open to all and free of charge.

You are invited to a webinar on "Conflicts Associated with the Installations of Geothermal Energy; Case of Olkaria IV Project, Kenya".

Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker: Lilian Namuma S. Kong'ani (Ph.D student, Wangari Maathai Institute), she will be presenting her research findings.

Discussant: Dr Bessy Eva Kathambi (Wangari Maathai Institute)

Joining link: Google Meet We look forward to your participation.

The Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, is pleased to invite you to a series of IDS Day seminars starting on Thursday October 8, 2020. The seminars comprise presentations by leading African scholars and researchers.

Since its inception on October 8, 1965, IDS has carried out research on issues of development concern and has been collaborating with partners locally and globally to influence development policy and practice. The seminars will also pay attention to the Kenya debate of the 70s and 80s– ‘What went right’ and ‘what has gone wrong’.

The first virtual event will take place from 2:00 PM to 5.00 PM on Thursday, October 8, 2020, EAT. Prof. Anyang’ Nyong’o, Prof. Issa Shivji, and Prof. Ibbo Mandaza will discuss ‘Development Policy Debate 50 Years On.'

Register for the webinar here.

This is to inform you that Prof. Horace Ochanda has been appointed Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Enterprise, with immediate effect. Appointment of Prof. Horace Ochanda as DVCRIEProf. Ochanda was the immediate Deputy Principal at the Kenya Science Campus.

Congratulations to Prof. Ochanda on his new role.

The University of Nairobi Alumni is pleased to share with attached copy here of the 14th issue of the Alumni newsletter. Kindly read and give them your feedback  in the form of comments for improvement or commendations.

They also seek your contribution and support  in production future articles in the following thematic areas:

Science and Technology

Sports

Gender and disability

Industry partnerships

Research and innovation

Mentorship and scholarships

Philanthropy.

Shouts from Alumni,

Alumni in the diaspora

News from the University

Education  Mobility 

Funding for Higher Education

The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) will deliver a virtual implementation science school over two weeks from 23 November - 4 December 2020. Formal applications open on 1 September 2020. Applications close 7 October 2020.

This training school will be facilitated by some of the field’s most prominent global experts and aims to train early- and mid-career researchers who have an interest in chronic non communicable diseases about the field of implementation science and how to: study and implement research findings into policy and practice; use theoretical models, research designs and measurement; and collaborate and network globally.

Important dates: 

· 7  October – applications close

· 19 October – successful applicants announced

For more information, see the attached flyer.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Sep 30, 2020 04:30 PM Nairobi

Register in advance for this meeting: Zoom Meeting Registration
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

This is to notify all expelled students of the University of Nairobi that they can now submit their appeals for pardon to the Pardon Advisory Committee  by completing the template/form attached .

Kindly submit the duly completed template/form here to the committee using the following email:  pardonadvisory@uonbi.ac.ke 

You are hereby invited to a webinar whereby Anis Ibrahim, M.Sc. student at the Wangari Maathai Institute, will be presenting his research findings.

Topic: Effect of Urbanization on Urban Forestry and Air Quality; Case Study of Ngong Road Forest

Date: Wednesday 30 September 2020

Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Joining Link: Google Meet

The Belarusian State University has expressed its interest in developing inter-University interaction and cooperation with universities in Kenya.

Their areas of interest are;

1. Professors'/Scientists' mobility between Belarusian State University and Kenyan universities for lectures, internships and joint research

2. Publishing articles in the Journal of the Belarusian State University

This is to encourage our staff, postgraduate students and researchers to take advantage of collaboration opportunities such as this one.

For further information, please visit the Belarusian State University website at https://fir.bsu.by/en/home-en

Their local contact is Ms. Olga Litvinyuk Tel. 0757075217 or Kenya@mfa.gov.by