Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research Innovation and Enterprise Prof. Margaret J Hutchinson was invited for the official opening  ceremony  of Tripartite partnership agreement ,industry-academia workshop.

The Department of Plant Science  and Crop Protection held a departmental webinar on ”Genomics and application in research” at the department during which Prof Hernan from Nebraska University, Lincoln, USA was the Key Note Speaker. During Prof. Hernan’s visit to the University of Nairobi, he had an opportunity to discuss the possibilities of possible future collaborations in staff and student exchange and writing joint proposals. Training on bioinformatics approaches will be also be done to build capacity for the Kenyan scientists.

At their recent summit in Brussels, the Vice-Chancellors and Presidents of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (The Guild) have launched seventeen research clusters that aim to transform the nature of collaborative research, foregrounding equity as a precondition for excellent and impactful research to address our common societal challenges.