Completed Projects

NoProject TitlePurposeDurationPrincipal
Investigator
1Bee Pollinators
Diversity Informatics Project		The Department of Zoology, Entomology and Fisheries Sciences in collaboration with DICTS-Makerere University,
National Museum of Kenya, Metalmark
Web and Data (USA), Bee Identification Services (USA), Belgian Museum
of Natural History; won a research
grant worth USD275,000 funded by
JRS Foundation. Objectives: 1) Enable
access to biodiversity data through the
development and launch of a database-driven website on bees of
Uganda and related pollination information. 2) Expand the knowledge base
on bee pollinators by engaging farmers
and government agencies, conducting
field surveys and sampling events to
collect specimens. 3) Analysis of
datasets with a focus on bee diversity,
determinants of distribution, and
bee-plant mutualisms in agricultural
landscapes of the Southern Kyoga
Basin and Central Lake Victoria Crescent. 4) Enhance capacity at Makerere
University through the development of
a bee genera of Uganda identification
guide and training in bee identification
skills and biodiversity informatics
applications		2020 – 2022Assoc.
Professor
Anne Akol,
Department
of Zoology,
Entomology
and Fisheries
Sciences
2Environmental
Health		Makerere University in partnership with
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
won a research grant of USD 36,079
funded by the World Academy of
Sciences to undertake a research on
Environmental Health		2020 – 2022Dr. Patrick
Ssebugere,
staff from the
Department
of Chemistry
3SIDA grant of
39M SEK
(approx. USD
4.5m) to Capacity building in
Mathematics
and its Applications		Capacity building in Mathematics and
its Applications		2015-2022Assoc.
Professor
John M.
Mango,
Department
of Mathematics

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