University of Nairobi

The Vice-Chancellor, University of Nairobi, has appointed Prof. Joyce G. Maina to serve as chairman of the Department of Animal Production with effect from September 2022. 

Prof. Maina is an accomplished member of staff with many years of teaching and research experience. This is in addition to supervision of postgraduate students, student mentorship, and outreach services.

The University of Nairobi wishes to inform the following groups of students (Module I and Module II) that the commencement and reporting dates for the 2022/2023 Academic Year are as follows:

 MONDAY, 19TH.  SEPTEMBER 2022- FIRST SEMESTER

YEAR I UNDERGRADUATES OF THE FOLLOWING FACULTIES:

The application process for the 2022 Krystle Kabare Scholarship is now open. The scholarship will award one Kenyan graduate student with disabilities a full academic scholarship to attend the University of Nairobi in September.

In line with the O3 plus programme implementation, 9 bod students from University of Nairobi and Mount Kenya University have decided to challenge the high altitudes of Mt. Kenya to create awareness on the importance of good health and well-being of young people. 7 of these students are from UoN. The students have gone through rigorous training with the ‘Outdoorer Hiking Academy’ through 6 preparatory hikes to ensure that they have prerequisite resilience to challenge Point Lenana, Mt. Kenya on 14th-17th July, 2022.

The Chief Guest, Associate Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Enterprise Prof. Margaret Hutchinson unveiled the Priority Agenda for Women Economic Empowerment and rallied the women delegates to take positions of leadership and decision making as well as be part of resource mobilization, distribution and utilization.
 

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The Principal Secretary, State Department for Public Works (SDPW) Mr Solomon Kitungu toured the Faculty of Built Environment and Design for a demonstration of the ceramic toilet (Ngisi Toilet Project) designed and developed by a research team from the Department of Art and Design. 

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UoN enters into Kshs. 140M partnership to scale Adaptation.

The University of Nairobi signed an agreement with Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) to scale adaptation efforts in Africa through a project titled, "Enhancing and scaling up climate adaptation for resilient infrastructure in Kenya and the East African region”. The agreement is worth Kshs. 140M will see the University deliver a master class on Climate change and conduct innovative climate change solutions competition among the youth. 

Tune in and watch the VC's Live address today, Friday July 8, 2022 at 3:00 pm through this link https://youtu.be/WoZPgpZ4QZs

3rd ARUA Centre for Unemployment and Skills Development International Conference