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NAIROBI INNOVATION WEEK 2024 - FACULTY BASED HACKATHONS

Innovators who are passionate about innovation and developing ideas to solve society's greatest challenges In preparation for The Nairobi Innovation Week 2024, register to participate in the Faculties-based Hackathons and learn how to innovate!

 The goal is to prepare students and staff to be job creators instead of job seekers. The top three winning ideas from each of the Faculties Hackathons will get a chance to participate in the final Nairobi Innovation Week competition in 2024.

 

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Webinar Announcement - MSc Proposal Presentation

 

There will be an MSc Proposal presentation tomorrow Wed 21st Feb 2024 from 12:30 Pm-2:00 Pm online at the link address: meet.google.com/gar-qahy-ixw

The presenter will be Semere Teklemichael Haile

Topic: Effects of inclusion of decorticated cowpea in layer chicken diets on laying performance and egg quality

Educational Tour for 1st year students Nutrition and Dietetics programme at Rabbit Breeding and conservation centre

1st-year students taking the Nutrition and Dietetics programme visit the Rabbit Breeding and Conservation Centre to learn practically about rabbitry. They demonstrated the good practice oh housing, feeding, cleanliness, and slaughtering of a rabbit. 

A VISIT BY THE MINISTRY OF LIVESTOCK AND FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT, SOMALILAND

The Department on 30th October 2023, hosted some staff members from the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development (MoLFD), Somaliland, who also attended the Agro conference at the Faculty of Agriculture held between 25th -26th  October 2023. The team was exposed to learning and training in Sustainable Agriculture and Livestock systems in Drylands. The visit contributed to the visibility of the department and also created an opportunity to market undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the department. 

VISIT BY OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY-GLOBAL ONE HEALTH INITIATIVE

OHIO State University Global One Health Initiative team visited the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine among them the Department of Animal Production being one of them on 2nd November 2023. 

The team from OSU-GOHI was led by Professor Wondwossen Gebreyes the CEO Global One Health Initiative and accompanied by colleagues from Gondar University, Ethiopia.

Webinar Announcement - MSc Proposals

There will be a MSc Proposal presentation tomorrow on 8th Novemebr, 2023 at 12:30Pm-2:00Pm online on link address: meet.google.com/gar-qahy-ixw 

the presenters will be :

1.Peninah Mercy Lekaura

Title: Effects of Supplementation of Dairy Heifer Diets with Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Fermentation Post-Biotic on Performance and Post-Vaccination Immune Response

Degree Programme: Master of Science in Animal Nutrition and Feed Science