Mak 71st Official Graduation Gowns webadmin Fri, 05/07/2021 - 09:58

The Academic Registrar, Makerere University has issued a circular on Graduation Gowns and the approved service providers for the respective Colleges as we prepare for the 71st Graduation Ceremony. Download attachment for details.

Official Graduation Gowns.pdf

Reimagining the Natural Products Industry in Africa Conference (RNPIA-2021) webadmin Thu, 05/06/2021 - 18:12  

On behalf of the organizing committee, Dr. Alice Nabatanzi, a staff from College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University invites you all to a Conference on Reimagining the Natural Products Industry in Africa under the patronage of Carnegie Corporation of New York through Future Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

The RNPIA-2021 conference is organized by Future Africa, University of Pretoria in collaboration with Makerere University and this year’s theme is “Advancing Africa’s Natural Products Industry through Transdisciplinarity and Sustainable Innovations”.... Visit the Conference website for details.

 

Mak 71st Virtual Graduation: Dates for Respective Colleges to Present Graduands webadmin Thu, 05/06/2021 - 09:29

The Makerere University 71st Graduation Ceremony is scheduled to take place from Monday 17th May 2021 to Friday 21st May 2021. The Chancellor is expected to confer degrees and award diplomas to   over 11,000 graduands.

The 71st Graduation Ceremony will be held virtually. Only PhD graduands will be expected to be physically present at the Freedom Square. All students graduating with Masters, Bachelors (Undergraduate degrees) and Diplomas will participate virtually. Modalities for a successful virtual graduation ceremony are being finalised with options for Live Coverage and Live Streaming.

For your reference, please receive the attached document from the Department of the Academic Registrar highlighting the dates when the respective Colleges will be presenting students for graduation.

Mak 71st VIRTUAL Grad Dates respective Colleges presenting Graduands 17th to 21st May 2021.pdf Mak 71st VIRTUAL Grad Dates respective Colleges presenting Graduands 17th to 21st May 2021.doc

 

Applications are open for the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition 2021. The XPRIZE Carbon Removal is aimed at tackling the biggest threat facing humanity, which is fighting climate change and rebalancing Earth’s carbon cycle. Funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, this $100M competition is the largest incentive prize in history, an extraordinary milestone. After 1 year of competition the judges will review all submissions received by that time and award up to 15 Milestone Prizes of $1 million each.

The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is leading the development of a series of analytical country case studies to better understand the political economy factors that contribute to advancing the implementation of health taxes. This programme carried out in collaboration with the Inter-Agency Working Group and the WHO Working Group on Health Taxes and focuses its attention on examining how political economy factors have influenced the design, adoption and implementation of health taxes.

S. Ben Mukiibi, Nyanzi, S. Allan, Kwetegyeka, J., Olisah, C., Taiwo, A. Mathew, Mubiru, E., Tebandeke, E., Matovu, H., Odongo, S., Abayi, J. John Moses, Ngeno, E. Chelangat, Sillanpää, M., and Ssebugere, P., “Organochlorine pesticide residues in Uganda's honey as a bioindicator of environmental contamination and reproductive health implications to consumers”, Ecotoxicol Environ Safty, vol. 214, p. 112094, 2021.

PhD Public Defense by Mr Ndikubwayo Innocent webadmin Tue, 05/04/2021 - 09:58

PhD Public Defense by Mr Ndikubwayo Innocent, a PhD Sida supported sandwich student at Makerere and Stockholm university in Sweden. Mr Ndikubwayo Innocent  will defend his PhD in Mathematics at Stockholm University today on the 14th  May 2021 at 15.00 CET i.e 16.00 EAT.

Zoom link: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/64784353303 [1]
LOCATION: Online via Zoom, meeting ID 647 8435 3303


It is good to know that Innocent is one of the PhD Sida supported students on project 316 who have or are completing their PhDs.  Note that the said Sida Mathematics project has trained or is finalizing the training to PhD level of 21 students/staff i.e 4 staff from Makerere, 6 staff from Kyambogo, 4 staff from Gulu university, 2 staff from Mbarara university and 5 staff from Busitema. Innocent is a staff of Makerere  University. In 2020 alone, this project made a humble contribution of 29 impactful publications to Makerere's volume of publications in the pandemic year. I am hopeful that the main library has captured all of them. To date, the project has produced close to 60 publications. It is good to further note that out of the said 21 PhD students recruited in 2016/2017 with most of them in 2017, thirteen (13) PhD students have completed or will will complete by end of next month.

Student ID Process Guidelines webadmin Mon, 05/03/2021 - 09:51

The Academic Registrar, Makerere University has issued guidelines for through which first year students may process and receive their Identity (ID) cards through the AIMS Portal.

Introduction

AIMS Student ID service is enabled in Each Student’s Portal.

This guide highlights the process for the various ID services a student can request for via their Portal.

ID Services Enabled

• Request For New IDs for New Students
• Request For ID Replacement
• File Complaint About Not Having Received An ID

a) Requesting for a New ID (New Students )

After having fullfilled all the first time registration requirements and having had their photos and signatures captured, new students have to validate their biodata on their portals before their IDs are printed as detailed below.

1. Log Into Portal and Select the Service Requests Menu.

2. Select ID Card Services

3. Select New ID Option (Only Available for New Students)

4. Validate Biodata

5. Keep Checking on the Updates Until You are informed to Pick Up your ID.

6. Notification to go Pickup the ID.
7. 
   Makerere-AR-Student_ID-Guidelines-First_Years-April2021.pdf

Student ID Process Guidelines webadmin Mon, 05/03/2021 - 09:51

This Wellcome Trust grant has been made available to facilitate researchers engage the public with their research. Researchers share their ideas with the public and in return get new perspectives on their research and can inspire learning, enhance research and help to improve health. The opportunity gives researchers public engagement funding of level that's justifiable for the scale and scope of their study and proposed public engagement program. The enrichment funding will end at the same time as your central Wellcome grant.

Wellcome Trust invites applications for Wellcome Early-Career Awards. This scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, they will be ready to lead their own independent research programme. 
Eligibility

Wellcome Trust invites applications for Wellcome Career Development Awards. This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.
Eligibility

Wellcome Trust invites applications for Wellcome Discovery Awards. This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.
Eligibility

B. A. Dell, Masembe, C., Gerhold, R., Willcox, A., Okafora, C., and Souza, M., “Species misidentification in local markets: Discrepancies between reporting and molecular identification of bushmeat species in northern Uganda”, One Health, 2021.

New Vision Pullout on Makerere University webadmin Fri, 04/23/2021 - 14:32

They say that Makerere University is now like any other major global university and I tend to think that they are probably right, ” Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, the Vice-Chancellor of Uganda’s prestigious university says. And the Vice-Chancellor is right: anybody who has been at Makerere lately will attest to its remarkable transformation.  Source

Makerere-University-NewVision-Pullout-22ndApr2021.pdf

Issuing of Student Identity Cards webadmin Thu, 04/22/2021 - 16:25

End of On-Campus (Face-to-Face) Studies for Year Two and other Non-Finalist Students webadmin Thu, 04/22/2021 - 15:37

In line with the approved programme for blended teaching & learning for Semester One 2020/2021, on-campus (face-to-face) studies for Year Two & all Non-Finalist Students will conclude on Saturday 24th April 2021 and thereafter this group will continue with online teaching and learning.

The next cohort on-campus (face-to-face) studies is Final Year Students, who are scheduled to begin physical classes from 25th April to 22nd May 2021. All students on health and veterinary sciences programmes, all Architecture and 4th year Agriculture students will continue with physical classes as per the approved staggered plan as shown in the table below.

Please note that the Semester One Examinations will begin with this cohort (Final Year Students) on 24th May to 6th June, 2021.

Period No. of
Weeks Year One
Students Year Two (&
other Non finalist)
Students Final Year
Students All Students
on Health &
Veterinary
Sciences
programmes;
All
Architecture &
4th Years
Agriculture 8th – 28th Feb
2021 N/A On Campus
Enrolment,
Registration &
Orientation
(22-27 Feb) Online Studies Online Studies Online Studies 1st – 27th
March 2021 4 On Campus Online Studies Online Studies On Campus 28th March –
24th April
2021 4 Online Studies On Campus Online Studies On Campus 25th April –
22nd May
2021 4 Online Studies Online Studies On Campus On Campus 24th May –
5th June 2021 2 Online
Studies Online
Studies Examinations Examinations 7th to 19th
June 2021 2 Examinations Examinations Off campus Off campus Approved programme for Blended Teaching & Learning Semester One 2020/2021

 

Dr. Umar Kakumba
Deputy Vice Chancellor(Academic Affairs)
19th April 2021

Undergraduate Approved Change of Courses Lists 2020/2021 webadmin Thu, 04/22/2021 - 15:28

The Office of the Academic Registrar has released lists of students whose applications for change of Programme/Course/Subject have been approved  for the Academic Year 2020/2021. Kindly note that the list for change of Subjects for Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences)/Bachelor of Science etc is being processed, it will be published soon.

The lists includes MUBS and all its campuses.

The lists can be accessed by following the inks below:

Mak-Admissions-GOVT-Students-Allowed-to-change-subjects-2020-2021.pdf Mak-ALevel-PRIVATE-Undergraduate-Change-of-Course-2020-2021.pdf Mak-Admissions-PRIVATE-Students-Allowed-to-change-subjects-2020-2021.pdf Mak-INTERNATIONALS-Undergraduate-Change-of-Course-2020-2021.pdf Mak-Govt-Sponsorship-Undergraduate-Change-of-Course-2020-2021.pdf CHANGE-OF-PROGRAMS-2020-2021-Diploma-Degree.pdf

 

Biochemistry Seminars Series  webadmin Wed, 04/21/2021 - 20:42

Title: Transmutation” of scientific milestones as a key component in building resilience and fighting unemployment in the science community in Uganda

Guest speaker: Bashir Lumala, MSc, Business Development Manager for Molbio at Science Logistics

Date: Thursday 22nd April 2021, 12 noon – 1 pm
Zoom Meeting ID 969 4083 9154  Passcode 202058

Using his own career development experiences, Mr Lumala aims to motivate young scientists to “think outside the box” regarding career options for biosciences graduates in Uganda.