BioGold Project is a three-year collaborative project among five academic institutions including, Kyambogo University, Makerere University, Gulu University, University of Pretoria and University of Continuing Education, Krems, Austria funded by the Austrian Development Cooperation under the APPEAR Partnership. The project will combine principles of biosorption and chemical remediation to treat contaminated wastewater, tailings, rehabilitate contaminated […]
Overall Objective: The ECSDevelop Project launched at Makerere University on 8th June 2022 aims to increase capacity and contribution of environmental chemistry research in higher education in a bid to address the local and global priority needs in improving water quality. East Africa faces serious challenges in relation to atmospheric, soil and water pollution. The […]
The outgoing Deputy Principal, College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS), Prof. Fredrick Jones Muyodi has today, 7th March 2022 handed over to the Principal, Dr Tumps Winston Ireeta. Prof. Muyodi has served as Deputy Principal, CoNAS for four years and eight months starting July 2017 to January 2022. Presenting his handover report, Prof. Muyodi highlighted some […]
I held an interesting conversation with Dr. Kremser Roswitha, Chargé d’Affaires of the Austrian Embassy. Austria is supporting research at Makerere to address challenges of climate change, public health and food security. We agreed to diversify our collaboration.