DIES Training Course on Management of Internationalization 2020/2021

DIES training on management of internationalization2020/2021 is open for applications. Please find the attached link and call for more information.

https://www.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/Internationales/pdf/Announcement_MoI_2020_21.pdf

MMUST upscales the fight against Covid 19 through donations to the Kakamega and Shikusa Prisons Inmates.

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) has taken the lead in empowering communities to cope with Covid- 19. Last week on Monday 18th May, the MMUST Management jointly with the institution’s unions namely; University Academic Staff Union (UASU), Kenya University Staff Union (KUSU) and Kenya Union of Hotels Education Institutions and Allied Workers (KUDHEIA), donated Sanitizers, water tanks for hand washing, bar soaps, face masks and sanitary towels to the inmates at Kakamega Prisons and Shikusa Farm Prison.

Ag. VC Prof. Solomon Shibairo officially joins MMUST’s Coronavirus Emergency Response Team

MMUST now In Charge of training County and Hospital Managers

The MMUST Corona Response Operations team took their training of Kenyans on Coronavirus a notch higher by rolling out training for trainers for the County and Kakamega Hospital top management. The training which took place yesterday at the Continuous Medical Education (CME) room was expertly orchestrated and highly successful.

Yesterday, the team trained MMUST’s cleaning group. Our incredible team has tailor-made specific training for particular groups such as healthcare workers, cleaners and administrators. Attached, please find the pictorials showcasing MMUST in this quest to deal firmly with Covid -19.

MMUST Coronavirus Bulletin

MMUST CORONAVIRUS BULLETIN                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

MMUST’s SCHOOL OF MEDICINE RANKED AMONG COMPLIANT MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS IN KENYA.

The 3rd Joint inspection of Medical and Dental Schools and Teaching Hospitals in the Republic of Kenya has ranked MMUST’s School of Medicine among the compliant medics’ trainer institutions. The inspection was carried out by a joint team of technical health experts from the East African Community (EAC) Partner States National Medical and Dental Practitioners Regulatory Councils from 2nd to 6th March, 2020. This was in line with a directive of the 19th Ordinary Meeting of the EAC Sectoral Council of Ministers of Health held in Nairobi from 28th October to 1st November, 2019 under decision No EAC/SCHealth/19/Decision/004.

MMUST’s DR. ROSE ATIENO OPIYO CLINCHES THE 2020-2022, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT (ISSBD) AWARD

Dr. Rose Atieno Opiyo of Educational Psychology Department, MMUST is the new Kenyan recipient of the 2020-2022, International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD)/ Jacobs Foundation, Professional Development Fellowship award.

This is a 3- year prestigious doctoral programme that attracts wide candidature from various academic disciplines: Nutrition, Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Public Health and Sociology. It is designed to build research capacity of middle-career researchers in developmental science in Africa, putting them in the best position to improve:

MMUST Optometry Department reaps Big From The Staff Exchange Program With Norway Government.

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), currently the only University in Kenya offering Optometry at degree level, has benefited greatly from the Staff Exchange program with the Norway Government. MMUST is the pioneer of Optometry in the entire East African region. Being so young in the field of Optometry, the University is in collaboration with the government of Norway to ensure capacity building and establishment of a variety of Optometry courses at MMUST.