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UoN becomes the first public university to conduct virtual exams amid Covid-19 http://www.nation.co.ke

The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Kenya intends to hold African Cartoon Festival on COVID-19. This festival is solely for African and Iranian cartoonists. The secretariat will receive the artworks of the cartoonist from all over Africa

The Iranian Embassy led by H. E. Jabber Barmaki is exploring possible partnerships and collaboration between the University of Nairobi and Iranian Universities.

The University of Nairobi multidisciplinary team of engineers and doctors have developed a home grown portable ventilator that will reduce the cost of the current ventilators by nearly 90% . Speaking during a demonstration session by the lead engineers and doctors, Prof. Stephen Kiama, the University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor, congratulated the team for the hardwork put in place to ensure that the low cost portable ventilator comes to life. “This demonstrates our value of care. We care for Kenyans”, he said.

Kenya is endowed with diverse habitats that are home to unique and diverse flora and fauna. These diverse habitats are represented within the protected area system that comprise of approximately 12% of the Kenyan territory, classified as national parks, national reserves, marine reserves and forest reserves.

These areas have varied ecosystems and habitats ranging from marine, inland wetlands, fresh and salty water lakes, rivers, volcanoes, hot springs, savannahs, forests, mountains, caves and deserts.

Registered copyrights

1. Map application: Registered on 05 July 2019. This is a mobile or web based application that enables University students, staff and visitors to the university to navigate easily within the various specific units and departments.

Web drive was organized by central web team where Web Champions were able to do staff clean up, confirmed that there is a complete list of current staff and also added current news for the individual departments.

The Intellectual Property Management Office (IPMO), University of Nairobi, held an Intellectual Property Commercialization training for members of the Colleges’ Management and Researchers on 5^th and 6^th March 2020.

The following technologies are ready for commercialization. The University of Nairobi is willing to take on board partners in the commercialization process of the technologies. The partnership can be in the form of licensing, assignments, spinoffs and collaboration in technology development.  

Patents and Utility Models

Intellectual Property Management Office Director, Prof. Francis Mulaa was among the 185 unit heads in the University of Nairobi that signed their performance contracts with the ag. Vice-Chancellor for the financial year 2019/2020.