National Stakeholders workshop on African Swine Fever: A National Stakeholders workshop for Uganda on African Swine Fever (ASF) was held on 28th April 2016 at Hotel Brovad, Masaka District, Uganda. Participants of the workshop were from Makerere University; Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF); Veterinary Institute for Animal Health, Sweden and districts across...Read More

The 14th East and Southern Africa Laboratory Manager’s Workshop organised and hosted by the Department of Chemistry was held on 21st March 2016 to 25th March 2016. The meeting brought together laboratory managers from the region to discuss trends and safety in science laboratories.Read More

The Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology (College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS), Makerere University) is hosting Prof. Mark Pitkin Simmons from Colorado State University in the U.S.A as a Fulbright Scholar for the academic year 2016/2017. He will be based at the Makerere University Herbarium. During his stay, Prof.  Simmons as a visiting professor...Read More

The saying goes, ’a journey of a thousand steps begins with one step’. The mood on Friday 26th August 2016 fit in well with the saying, when the College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS) held an orientation meeting with the freshmen and women of academic year (AY) 2016/2017. The young men and women are starting their journey...Read More

Zawedde has been awarded the prize for her physics thesis “Weak to Moderate Recurrent Storms and their Influence on the Middle Atmosphere Composition in 2008” (Thesis supervisor: Hilde Nesse Tyssøy)Zawedde has worked on a demanding interdisciplinary project between space physics and atmospheric dynamics that required an extensive multidisciplinary approach. The basic theme of the thesis...Read More

The renovation of the Chemistry Building under the ADB V (five)-HEST project is on track. The Principal of CoNAS, Prof. J.Y.T. Mugisha visited the worksite on Monday, 13th June 2016. He was shown the works by staff of Excel Construction, the company contracted to renovate the buildings and laboratories. The College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS) is...Read More

The 4th African Geosciences Student Conference (AGSC) will be held on 20-22 June 2016 in Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. The conference is majorly focused on assessing the viability and potential of the field of geosciences as a link between energy supply solutions and development not only on the African continent but across the face of...Read More

This is an open call for those scientists interested to apply in order to be Sponsored Scientists in the next Global African swine fever Research Alliance (GARA) Scientific Workshop 2016 to be held in Anses, Ploufragan, France on 6-8 September 2016. The Swine Immunology and Virology lab in Ploufragan, which is a part of ANSES – French Agency for...Read More

The BeeHealth inception meeting for various stakeholders was held on the 14th January 2016 in the Buxton Boardroom in the Department of Zoology, Entomology & Fisheries Sciences, College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS), Makerere University. The aim of the meeting was to inform stakeholders about the existence of the project and soliciting their views/expertise on how...Read More

The 1st African Primatological Conference APC conference was held for two days from 15th to 16th of December 2015 at Makerere University hosted by the College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS). The conference was organized by African Primatological Consortium (APC) who is charged with coordinating collaborative research and building the capacity of young primatologists.  As part of the conference,...Read More