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The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) is an international organization founded in 1987 and based at the offices of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), in Trieste, Italy. OWSD is the first international forum to unite eminent women scientists from the developing and developed worlds with the objective of strengthening their role in the development process and promoting their representation in scientific and technological leadership....Read More

The International Professional Recognition Council (IPRC) Technical Review Committee has granted Prof. Fredrick Jones Muyodi Senior Research Management Professional Status for demonstrating core and transferable research management competencies. In a letter dated 25th October 2022, the Head of the IPRC Secretariat, Dr Pamisha Pillay, congratulated Prof. Muyodi and urged him to use his newly acquired status to further take on leadership in promoting and developing research management and administration in the...Read More

CoNAS students are participating in the 2022 National Science Week exhibition at Kololo Independence Grounds. The exhibition runs from 6th-10th November 2022 under the theme “Uganda 2040; The Future We want through Science, Technology and Innovation.”  The National Science Week Exhibition provides a platform to showcase innovations and technologies across all sectors that are steering the country towards achieving the national development goals and fighting poverty.   The Deputy Principal at the...Read More

Dr Godwin Anywar has been selected as one of the four recipients of this year’s Uganda Textbook Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association (UTANA) Grant Scheme Award to complete and publish his book titled “A handbook on medicinal plants and HIV/AIDS”. The UTANA Grant Scheme for Authors (UGSA) supports both academic and general non-fiction writers to complete and publish their work. Supported by the Norwegian Association of Non-Fiction Writers and Translators (NFFO),...Read More

Dr Samuel Ojelel has been appointed Acting Head, Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology, College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS), Makerere University. He will hold the position for six months effective 1st November 2022 to 30th April 2023 when a substantive Head will be appointed. The former Head, also Dean, School of Biosciences, Prof. Arthur Tugume handed over the office to him at a brief ceremony held at the Department today, 3rd November...Read More