To All Students,

You are invited to a Boot Camp (Session 6) on the topic: Youth & Innovation: The African Youth. 

The speaker, Nadia Ahmed, is the Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of ICT, Innovation & Youth Affairs, Republic of Kenya.

The Moderator is Kenneth Sawe, the Executive Director, UoN Alumni Association.

We also have a guest who is a former Vice President of the UoN student body (SONU) Ms. Angel Mbuthia.

Date: October 07, 2020 (Today)

Time: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Click on the link below to register for the meeting: click here

All are welcome!

To All Staff and Students,

the Office of Career Services in partnership with IBM cordially invites you to the IBM Academic Initiative Program webinar designed for students and faculties to give them access to the most relevant tools for the current job market.

IBM is committed to helping colleges and universities worldwide adapt their curricula to prepare students for success in a dynamic and fiercely competitive IT workplace. Through this global program, students and faculties are offered a wide range of technology education benefits that can be scaled to meet the goals of large research universities, community colleges and vocational schools.

Webinar details are indicated below:

Date: Wednesday October 7, 2020

Time: 10.00am

Webinar Theme: The IBM Academic Initiative – Access to new technologies and educational resources from IBM.

To register and join the Webinar, click on this link below

https://ibm.webex.com/ibm/onstage/g.php?MTID=e6bba2473a8b9929eb200f4b7028b38b7

Staff from the ICT Centre, Faculty and Students from the School of Computing and Informatics are highly encouraged to attend.

Attendance of the webinar is open to all and free of charge.

FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

IBM’s Global University Programs team is hoping that you, your colleagues, friends, and family are all safe and well. It’s definitely a challenging time.  However, as a valued academic partner, we want you to be especially aware of this unique opportunity for your PhD students.

IBM is pleased to announce the 2021 Two-Year Worldwide IBM PhD Fellowship for the academic years of 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.  

Strong collaboration with faculty, students and universities is vital to IBM.  The IBM PhD Fellowship Program advances this collaboration by recognizing and supporting exceptional PhD students who want to make their mark in promising and disruptive technologies. Focus areas include the following topics of particular interest:

• • Hybrid Cloud
  • Quantum Computing / Quantum Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cloud / Open Source Technologies
  • Security / Cyber Security
  • Data Science
  • Systems

The 2021 two-year IBM PhD Fellowships are awarded worldwide.

• • U.S. country awards are $60,000 in award year one and $35,000 in award year two.
  • Other country awards vary between $6,000-$25,000 each award year depending on the country.

Additional Information:

Students must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member. The nominator provides the supporting documentation (resume, list of publications, thesis topic, etc.), categorizes the student’s initial career interests, and submits the nomination for evaluation.

All IBM PhD Fellowship awardees are matched with an IBM mentor according to their technical interests and are encouraged to participate in an internship at least once while completing their studies. Students receiving a comparable fellowship or internship from another company or institution during the same academic period may not be eligible for an IBM PhD Fellowship.

Students should have three years remaining in their graduate program at the time of nomination. For example, nominees that are enrolled in a four-year graduate program should have completed two years of their graduate program as of summer 2021 in order to benefit the most.

We have received many outstanding and exceptional candidates from universities all over the world in the past and encourage universities to submit nominations until October 23, 2020.

The IBM PhD Fellowship program also supports our long-standing commitment to workforce diversity and encourages nominations of women, minorities and all who contribute to that diversity. The program seeks to increase the number of under-represented minority students in the referenced science topics of interest by encouraging a diverse applicant pool. We look forward to receiving your nominations.

For additional program details and FAQs, please visit  www.ibm.com/university/phdfellowship.

Please help us spread the word. If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact phdfellow@us.ibm.com.

The EAC Scholarship Programme is an initiative of the East African Community (EAC), the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) and German Development Bank- KfW. The project begun in 2018 when the EAC and IUCEA entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with KfW geared towards the training of students within the EAC Region.

This Project aims at creating future change agents, who identify themselves with the integration agenda of the EAC and are willing to share economic and development-oriented expert knowledge. The goal of this initiative is to contribute towards training leaders that will foster the EAC Regional integration.

The Call for the 2020 EAC Scholarship programme is out. The scholarship will support Master’s students in

1. Mathematics
2. Engineering
3. Informatics
4. Science
5. Technology; and
6. Business Science programmes.

For more information about the 2020 EAC Scholarship, Eligibility Criteria and Application Process, click here.

The deadline for receiving applications is 22nd October 2020, not later than 17:00 hours East African Time.

To all our Students

Thank you for joining us this morning for the Dialogue with Students by the UoN Dean of Students. We took note of all the questions and concerns raised and we shall endeavor to offer support.

For those who missed our session, please click on the link below to access the recorded video.

https://www.facebook.com/UoNCareeerOffice/videos/627107824672141

The following are support emails for your respective Faculty/School or Department. Use the preferred email as enlisted to reach out to the respective college for assistance with regards to academic issues (Link for Online Classes/Special Exams/Missing Units/Course Registration/Colliding Classes/Timetables)

The following are general service emails:

ICT Online Services Contacts

Director
Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies
P. O. Box 30197 00100, Nairobi,
mungaidavid@uonbi.ac.ke

Vision

EXCELLENCE IN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING, TRANSFORMATIONAL COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND
RESEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURES OF PEACE

Mission

TO CULTIVATE POSITIVE ETHICS, VALUES AND PRACTICES TOWARDS THE ENVIRONMENT
BY TRAINING STEWARDS WHO FOSTER PEACE, HOLISTIC SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
AND LINK THEORY WITH PRACTICE