Motivational talk at Ngamba Secondary School, Muthetheni, Machakos County on 30th March 2023.
Read MoreProf. Getenga, a professor of Chemistry in the Department of Physical Sciences, in partnership with Julich Research Centre (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Germany has been awarded a funding of €130,730 for a collaborative project “Atlas of Green Hydrogen Generation Potentials in Africa (H2ATLAS-AFRICA)”. The project, which is funded by German Ministry of Education and Research, is focused…
Read MoreThe Department of Physical Sciences held it first workshop on water quality focusing on the role of science in promoting SDG 6 on clean water and sanitation on 22nd September 2023. Access to clean water and proper sanitation is a global challenge and statistics show that almost a third of the global population does not…
Read MoreThe Department of physical sciences, Machakos University (MksU) was privileged to host a diaspora fellow, Prof. Jean-Luc Ayitou from the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) USA in the month of July 2023. During his visit, the fellow together with his collaborators (Dr. Veronica Okello (MksU) and (Dr. Harun Mbuvi, Kenyatta University (KU)) were able to commence…
Read MoreDr. Veronica Okello from the Department of Physical Chemistry is currently on a short-term scholar visit at University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) and has been granted a rapid site access to the Argonne National Labs (ANL) as an international user access in the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) upon successful submission of her proposal CNM 83068,…
Read MoreDr. Veronica Okello has been invited to deliver a talk at the Molecular Foundry User Meeting on Friday, August 19, 2022 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US As a follow up to an exciting profile in Nature career feature, ‘Voices from Africa’ series, https://www.nature.com>career articles, Dr. Veronica Okello, a lecturer from the Department of Physical…
Read MoreMs. Rose Tomno, a master’s student in the pioneer MSc Chemistry class at the Department of Physical Sciences, defends her Master’s thesis in a defense seminar held on 8th April 2022. Dr. Edgar Owiti and Dr. Veronica Okello win internal research grant in the 5th MksU call for internal research grant 2021/2022 Prof.…
Read MoreDr. Veronica Okello (PI) and Dr. Elizabeth Ndunda (Co-PI) win Internal Research Grant of KES 700,000 for their Proposal “Effect of Simulated Rainfall and Natural Weather on Chromated Copper Arsenate Treated Wood and Environmental Remediation: A Focus on Wood Treatment Plants in Kenya. The proposal was submitted for the 5th MksU call for internal research…
Read MoreEDUCATION BACKGROUND 2017-2020 : -University of the Free State (RSA) Doctor of Philosophy (Physics) Focus area: Material Science and Energy Thesis title: Solution combustion synthesis and photophysical characterization of rare-earth doped zinc zirconate nanocomposites 2004-2006 : -Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Master of Science in Physics Majoring in material science with…
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