Mark Wamai, Author at Makerere University News

Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career Award

Summary This award, established in 2010, provides professional development opportunities for women working in wheat during the early stages of their career. The award is named...

A student demonstrates mulching in a banana plantation as one of the Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices during an Internship Exhibition on 8th August 2014, MUARIK, CAES, Makerere University, Wakiso Uganda.

General5 years ago

New Open Courseware Water Productivity and Water Accounting using WaPOR

WaPOR is the portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open-access of Remotely sensed derived data (wapor.apps.fao.org) and has been developed by FAO. The WaPOR programme assists...

Innovation5 years ago

Call for Submissions: Innovating Education in Africa Expo 2020

The advent of COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges in Africa’s education system and reinforces the need for fit for context, innovative and scalable solutions in education. DOTSS[1]...

L-R: Prof William Bazeyo, Prof Barnabas Nawangwe and Dr Bruce Kirenga. Photo: The Observer.

Health5 years ago

MLI Newsletter July 2020

I thank you so much for choosing to read our Newsletter and welcome you to enjoy the contents of this issue in which we highlight MLI’s...

LDU personnel offload bags of relief food from a truck onto pick-up vehicles for further distribution during the COVID-19 lockdown in Kampala, Uganda. Photo Credit: Abubaker Lubowa/Daily Monitor

Research5 years ago

Lessons for Uganda: Decentralized Interventions in COVID-19 Relief Food Distribution

Public Health specialists have urged government to utilize its well-established decentralized systems to support intervention causes such as food relief distribution. The researchers say to better...

VC's Diary5 years ago

Attending Installation of Prof. Mushengyezi-3rd VC UCU

Yesterday, Sunday 30th August, 2020, I witnessed the installation of Prof. Aaron Mushengyezi as the third Vice Chancellor of Uganda Christian University (UCU) by the Archbishop...

The Low-Cost Medical Ventilator (Bulamu Ventilator), a product of Makerere University and Kiira Motors Corporation on display in the Main Hall, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda on 28th August 2020 during the launch of two innovations in the fight against COVID-19.

VC's Diary5 years ago

Advanced Model of the Bulamu Ventilator

I was impressed by the advanced model of Low-Cost Medical Ventilator (Bulamu Ventilator), a product of Makerere University and Kiira Motors Corporation. We have invested more...

Prof. Noble Banadda-Project PI and Chair, Department of Agricultural and BioSystems Engineering explaining how 3D printed face shields are made at a press conference held on 28th August 2020 in the Main Hall, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda.

Engineering, Art & Tech5 years ago

Mak Adds Thermal Imaging, 3D Printing to Fight Against COVID-19

Makerere University under the Department of Agricultural and Bio-Systems Engineering (DABE), College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) on Friday 28th August 2020 unveiled three new additions...

VC's Diary5 years ago

Thank You Huawei Technologies

Today Huawei Technologies donated network equipment consisting of routers and switches worth US$30,000 to the Makerere University College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS) to support...