Machakos University, in partnership with Freiberg University of Mining and Technology (TU BAF) in Germany through the YEMAYA-Women in science program and other African universities, was privileged to win the Erasmus+ Call2022-KA1-Learning Mobility of Individuals programme grant. The goal of the programme is to build capacity for excellence in research, train on professional skills, build…
Read MoreThe Department of Physical Sciences hosted Prof. Dr. Sören Thiele-Bruhn from the University of Trier, Germany from 3rd March 2024 to 11th March 2024. Prof. Soren is working with Prof. Zachary Getenga in a collaborative research project funded by Alexander Von Humboldt foundation under the Research group Linkages programme. The project “Enhanced Selective Immobilization of…
Read MoreMs. Rose Tomno, a PhD Chemistry student in the Department of Physical Sciences, Machakos University is undertaking a six month PhD traineeship program at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in Germany under TUBAF- ERASMUS + project in which Machakos University is one of the collaborating partners. The partnership, through the YEMAYA project, seeks to…
Read MoreFourth Year research Project presentation seminar
Read MoreMotivational 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…
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