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Students at the School were presented with an opportunity of becoming the Bic Art Master Africa during 

the launch of the  2019 challenge. A team from Bic shared the details of the contest while gifting the students

with Bic products during their class  interaction. The graphics students were particularly encouraged to take up

the challenge as this will give them a chance for global exposure with Bic Art Collection. 

The contest encourages all ball pen artists across Africa to showcase their creativity while

The University of Nairobi emerged best in the region in Google Scholar citations and position 921 in the world, with a total number of 43,471 citations. The leading University in the world on Google scholar citations is Harvard University with 1,495,497 citations.

University of Nairobi, Main Campus

The University of Nairobi has joined the bigwigs by being among the top 20 leading universities in the number of content generated from its website in the Webometrics ranking January 2017 edition. The University emerged position 11 in the Presence parameter out of 19, 403 universities.

On Saturday, November 19, 2016, the CAE students’ leaders were trained on essential leadership skills. The training, which took place at the University of Nairobi Tigoni Guest House, was conducted by trainers from People Strategy Results (PRIMO).  The student leaders were accompanied by the acting Principal, Prof. Weke, the College Registrar, Mr. Mbali, the Assistant Dean of students, Ms. Lucy Jiomba and the student Counselor, Ms. Lucy Kamau.

Ms. Unelker Maoga, a 3rd-year student studying Environmental Science in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi has won the PHOTO and ESSAY contest organized by the U.S. Department of State’s Regional Environment Office for East Africa. The contest entailed encouraging people to share their experiences in terms of photos and essays on how climate change is impacting our lives and Oceans.  With her moving essay entitled I Hear a Cry, she managed to beat over 200 contestants from Kenya.

Mr. Oyoo, he won the post of ONUSS First Year Class Representative 

University of Nairobi 55th Graduation ceremony

In line with the University of Nairobi Corporate Strategy, the University management found it necessary to impart the much needed skills into one of their very important cadre of staff: the secretaries. The theme for the training was: Illuminating the real manager behind the boss.

The School of Physical Science and its Department signed their Performance Contract on Monday 8th September, 2014 at the SPS Deans office

Dr. Justus Simiyu has visited the Departments of Solid State Physics and Physical Chemistry, Uppsala University for a three months Post Doctoral fellowship under the International Science Program, Uppsala University. This is a SIDA funded programme that targets north-south and south-south collaboration in capacity building in selected areas of science and mathematics. The department of Physics has received support from ISP under the International Programmes in Physical Sciences (IPPS) for over 15 years that has seen the department train 4 PhDs in and over 10 MSc in Condensed Matter.