The University of Nairobi in partnership with the Equity Group Foundation and the Kenya Forest Service facilitated a community tree planting exercise at the University of Nairobi’s Upper Kabete Campus on Tuesday May 18th, 2021.

Equity Group Foundation donated about 7,000 trees which were planted in identified grounds at the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Services and the Wangari Maathai Institute. In light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, tree planting is now viewed as a necessary exercise to promote the production of oxygen.

The University of Nairobi hosted its 2nd Prize presentation ceremony on Friday May 7, 2021.  In the ceremony, the university celebrated and recognized students with outstanding performance in their academic and extra-curricular activities from 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 academic years.

Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP) has been crowned overall winner in the Performance Contract 2019/2020.

The University of Nairobi in partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched a Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) Hub on Wednesday December 16, 2020.

The WEE hub will be domiciled at the African Women’s Study centre at the UoN.

Prof. Margaret Hutchinson is the new Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Finance Planning and Development for the next 6 months. She is from the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences. 

Prof. Enos Njeru who has been the Principal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences has been appointed as the new Ag. Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Human Resource and Administration for the next 6 months. 

The new Confucius Institute Building located on Arboretum Drive, has officially been handed over to the University of Nairobi. The ceremony was presided over by the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Prof. George Magoha, who praised the good relationships between Beijing and Nairobi.

Constructed at a cost of 1.4Billion shillings, the new Confucius Building hosts a number of lecture halls, conference facilities, accommodation facilities, staff offices and Chinese Language research offices and language libraries.

Prof. Isaac Meroka Mbeche, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Finance Planning and Development) and Professor of Management Science at the School of Business has retired with effect from March 21, 2020.  Consequently, Prof. Mbeche, having left University service through retirement, automatically ceased being the Deputy Vice Chancellor (FPD).  It follows, therefore, that the post of Deputy Vice Chancellor (FPD) is now vacant.

During the covid19 pandemic, the University has entered into an agreement with Telkom Kenya and made a special arrangement to facilitate all UoN students with data bundles to access online learning platforms. 

Here is a step by step procedure of how a student can access the bundles. 

1. Students to register their intent for facilitation of data bundles by updating their profile in the SMIS portal indicating their preferred Telkom outlet.

2. Requests received at ICT Centre are processed and forwarded to respective colleges for review and approval.

A message from the Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor, Finance Planning and Development to all the University community during this lockdown.

Dear University Community,

I hope you are all staying safe during this time.   The University has experienced significant growth in research and consultancy funds managed by the Grants office, thanks to your efforts.

Each college has a committee that oversees asset disposal at the University of Nairobi. Each item has a certain procedure to be followed before it is fully disposed.

The training for the disposal committees brought to light the guidelines and regulations from different government agencies like NEMA.