KAB has held a Professorial Inaugural Lecture to celebrate the appointment of Professor Sabiti Makara as a new professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, specializing in governance. The event that was held at the KAB main campus in Kikungiri was attended by several members from the local government in areas of Greater...
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Thomas Tayebwa paid a courtesy visit to KAB to establish the remarkable progress it has made since it became a public University since under government control in 2016. According to him, his purpose was to dentify the priorities that the government should address to further the institution's development. He...
Two students from KAB are attending the Annual Deep Learning Indaba at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. The Deep Learning Indaba is the annual meeting of the African Machine Learning and AI community with the mission to strengthen African AI. This year's meeting, that begun on 3rd and will end on 9th September,...
The two-week orientation program for new students has officially concluded today marked by an official closing ceremony led by Vice Chancellor Prof. Joy Kwesiga. The ceremony, hosted at the KAB Kikungiri main campus, saw the attendance of members of the University Management, Faculty Deans and Directors, Department heads, and Staff. In attendance, more than 3000 students,...
A team from the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development has been at KAB to establish a partnership with the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences' Business Incubation and Innovation Center. This collaboration will be made possible through a World Bank-supported Project titled 'Generating Growth Opportunities and Productivity for Women and Youth Enterprise in Uganda'. According...
A student at the KAB Faculty of Engineering received an award for their innovation of an automated potato peeling machine. Amon Katto, a final year student of Mechanical Engineering, made the innovation under a project titled 'The Design and Prototyping of an Automatic Potato Peeling Machine' under the supervision of Mr. Isaac Ndawula and Mr....
KAB researcher, Mr. Simon Peter Olupot, has released a new study titled "Institutional Pressures and Procurement Cycle Time in Uganda's Central Government Procuring and Disposing Entities: the mediating role of opportunist behavior". Mr. Olupot is an Assistant Lecturer for Procurement and Logistics in the Department of Management Sciences, Procurement and Business Studies, under the Faculty of...
The Resident Representative for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Uganda, Ms. Elsie Attafuah, has urged Kabale University to to align its programs and research with the aim of tackling present-day global challenges and promoting beneficial changes. Ms. Attafuah said this on Saturday, during her speech to administrators and student leaders at KAB regarding the Business...
KAB has held the Annual Staff Day for the 2023/2024 academic year. The event, which brought together all staff members, aimed at engaging them in team-building activities, sharing updates, discussing goals, and fostering a sense of community within the University. The event was held at the Kikungiri Hall which houses the Faculty of Education. The Day...
Kabale University has donated two machines to Kabale Regional Referral Hospital to help in diagnosing and treating medical conditions in pediatric patients. The Dean of the Kabale University's School of Medicine (KABSOM), Prof. James Tumwiine has handed over a Phototherapy and a CPAP machines to Dr. Filbert Nyeko, who is the Executive Director of the Hospital....
