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On Thursday, 11th June 2020, over 118 University of Nairobi staff drawn from the 6 campuses were trained on use of google classroom for online exam preparation, processing and administration amid Covid-19 pandemic. The training was comprehensive and demonstrated understanding that this can be implemented with efforts of both lectures and students. However, this requires further scrutiny and training to fully understand the system with support of UoN Examination Centre personnel(s).

According to Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), The University of Nairobi obtained this ranking considering the four criteria for Ranking Universities globally. These were quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, and research performance. This was after analysis of academic performance of 20,000 Universities in the World. UoN was ranked 1357 in the world, and number 1 in Kenya with an overall score of 68.4.

Prof. Stephen Gitahi Kiama and former Principal at College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences becomes the 8th UoN Vice Chancello r(https://www.uonbi.ac.ke/livestream). The event was held on 5th June 2020 virtually. He was handed over UoN instruments of power which have a symbolic  leadership significance.  These includes;

Down2earth project Aims to help rural East African communities adapt to climate change using state-of-the-art predictions of water scarcity and food insecurity. 

A major component of DOWN2EARTH involves improving the accuracy of forecasting climate variability in critical rainy seasons and assessing its impact on the total amount of water stored in soils for agriculture and deeper underground for drinking water supplies.

To find out, join us as we host the Africa Academy of Sciences Open Research https://aasopenresearch.org , Africas' oldest open access publishing house Hindawi Publishers https://www.hindawi.com/  and AfricArxiv, Africas' only preprint server https://africarxiv.org/  in this discussion.

The training kicks off from Tuesday, 19th May 2020 to Friday 22nd  May 2020. Target participants will be Postgraduate students and Academic Members of staff. It will be a vigorous exercise running from 11am to 12pm daily. To access google meet links for each category of training download PDF document attached.

Today, 14 May 2020, over 142 Current postgraduate Students and former Postgraduate students were trained on application of citation and referencing tool Known as ZOTERO. This tool works close as Mendeley but has significant differences, as Zotero is open source while Mendeley is partially free. With Zotero software for your research, you can organize your citations, share and if your computer collapses, your Zotero Library is intact.

Are a postgraduate student studying at College of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Nairobi? You are invited for  1 hour (2-3 pm) Zotero Training on 14th May 2020  which will take place  online.  Join the meeting  via  meet.google.com/hpj-xdrk-aur or Join by phone +1 646-600-5507.  Your supervisors  are also invited. Curculate this communication  to fellow students and staff. Zotero is software for Citation management.

LARMAT student ( Mr. Stephen Kiama  Maina) undertaking PhD in Dryland Resource Management has been awarded by National Research Fund (NRF) for his research project for the year 2019/2020. We congratulate him for his competitive research work guided by the supervisors in this department. NRF has advertised new active calls.