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Dr Catherine Sang a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation, will be presenting about " Preliminary assessment of water resources in the SGR corridor: Impacts and options at the InterSol Annual Conference on April 12 & 13, from 08.00 to 13.30 GMT.

This year’s theme is Nature-based Solutions, Gender Equity and Inter- connectivity for Climate Resilience in Africa.

Congratulations to Ms. Yvonne Githiora and Ms.Maysoon Osman  PhD students for the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA) for being selected in the Inaugural cohort of Mawazo Learning Exchange (MLEx) Fellows in the thematic area “Climate Change and the Environment”. 

The CEO National Council for Nomadic Education in Kenya (NACONEK) Mr. Harun Mohamed Yusuf sent a team to represent him in a meeting with the Director ICCA, Prof. Daniel O. Olago on areas of common interest and possible future cooperation. The team members were Mr. Oscar Makhoha, an expert on technical and vocational education, Mr Alex Oduor, an expert in water engineering and Ms. Angelina Brandt, a consultant with the NIFWESS project who are working closely with NACONEK in the execution of their mandate.

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GANDHI SMARAK NINDI FUND SCHOLARSHIP - 2021/2021

Gandi Smarak Nindi Fund Scholarship (GSNF) will offer (3 ) Ph.D. Scholarship to Three FEMALE students  tenable at the University of Nairobi during the 2020/2021 acadamic year for programmes in the following Colleges;

1. College of Architecture and Engineering 

2. College of Biological and Physical Science

3. College of Health Sciences 

The University of Nairobi welcomes all new students joining the university this academic year 2020/2021. The University has traditionally organized Orientation Week to welcome new students, this is being the first time in 50 years that the University will be holding Orientation week online.

The Development Corridors Project (DCP) in which Prof. Dan Olago is a co-Principal Investigator has been carrying out an online training programme (see attached file) and opened it up to a maximum of TEN (10) Ph.D. students.

Climate change is one of the most important environmental, economic and political issues facing the world today (McCright 2010, Pidgeon and Fischhoff 2011, Jones et al. 2015, Diaz and Moore 2017, Richler 2019).

In April 2020, an International Universities Climate Alliance (‘Climate Alliance’) was established to help communicate research insights on the most effective means to meet the unprecedented global challenge of climate change. 

The University of Nairobi Held its 62ndGraduation Ceremony on 20th December 2019 at the Chancellor’s Court situated next to the University sports field.