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The National Research Fund (NRF) Board of Trustees represented by Dr. J.P.R. Ochieng-Odero, Prof. Oyawa, Vainadu Ingana and Dr Salome Guchu held a Stakeholder’s Meeting on 8th June 2021 with the Management of the University of Nairobi, to discuss the progress on the implementation of infrastructure project grant to establish the Kenya National Resonance Nuclear Center (KNMRC) at the Department of Chemistry, University of Nairobi.

The College of Biological & Physical Sciences in partnership with Equity Bank and Kenya Forest Service held a tree planting exercise at Chiromo Campus near Chiromo River on 18th April, 2021. Equity bank  donated 400 seedlings both indigenous and exotic seedlings to Chiromo campus and 7000 seedlings in total across all the University of Nairobi Colleges.

Dr. Fredrick Mzee Mwazighe successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled 'Sensitive Electrochemical Detection Platforms for Anthracene and Pyrene', at the Institute of Chemistry, of the Chemnitz University of Technology on September 29, 2020. He was awarded a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat) in Physical Chemistry.

Dr. Simon Mbugua successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and graduated in December 2020 with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Nairobi.

The department is now receiving applications from Self Sponsored students who wish to study BSc Chemistry, BSc Industrial Chemistry, BSc Analytical Chemistry, MSc Chemistry, MSc Industrial Chemistry, MSc Environmental Chemistry, MSc Analytical Chemistry and PhD Chemistry that are due to begin on 6th September 2021.

The University of Nairobi wishes to invite Prize Recipients and Donors to the Prize Presentation Ceremony for the 2017/2018 & 2018/2019 academic years that will be held on Friday, 7th May 2021 in Taifa Hall. This will be a Virtual Ceremony. Our esteemed donors are invited to present the prizes and trophies during the ceremony.

Dr. Rachael Njogu has been involved in the Science Exchange program at Lund University, Sweden supported by the International Science Programme (ISP) based in Uppsala University through KEN 01 Inorganic Research Group. This enabled her to carry out Ph.D. research work at the Department of Chemistry, Lund University between September 2014 - August 2015 and December 2016 - September 2017. Dr. Njogu worked on Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry, organic synthesis, cyclometallation, cross-coupling reactions, and photocatalysis.