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.
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.
Two MSc students (Sharon Teyie and Fredrick Otieno) from Department of LARMAT who have been ‘investigating the charcoal value chain and the impacts of the production process on soil and vegetation properties” presented their research findings through poster in workshop on the charcoal production and its impacts on the Rangelands in Northwestern Kenya held from 17th 21 February 2020 in Marich Pass, Central Pokot. This was with guide from their supervisor, Dr. Oliver V.
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In any research monitoring and evaluation of study progress plays a crucial role both to the students and supervisors. It’s in this case University of Nairobi developed a mechanism of tracking student’s research. This can be ascertained through series of study research presentations to the supervisors and fellow students. On 12th March, 2020, the Ag Chairman LARMAT, Dr. Oliver Wasonga assisted by the departmental students’ project coordinator, Dr. G.
Apiculture is one of the valuable enterprises within agricultural sector. This industry of bee keeping support a larger population in Kenya through honey production. Bee keeping has extensive value chain ranging from cosmetics, confectioneries, pharmaceuticals, herbal products. To farmiliase on some of mentioned bee keeping aspects Third year students in Range Management on 11th March 2020 visited National beekeeping station in Lenana.
