Innovation

UNDP Rep. calls on Universities to promote innovation: KAB Regional Incubation Hub Takes the Lead

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...

Kabale University plant scientist leads a team to study medicinal plants used to treat malaria traditionally in Uganda

A team of researchers led by a Kabale University lecturer and plant scientist Dr. Denis Okello has concluded their study on the antiplasmodial/ antimalarial activity of two widely used traditional medicinal plant tissues across the African continent; Warburgia ugandensis stem bark and Aspilia africana wild leaves. The study, in which Dr. Okello was a lead investigator...

Kabale University Students participate in the East Africa Digital Innovation Summit

Students from the Faculties of Computing, Library & Information Science, and Engineering, Technology, Applied Design & Fine Art have represented Kabale University at the East Africa Digital Innovation Summit held at the Yusuf Lule Teaching Facility in Makerere University over the weekend. The team was led by the Guild President Diaz Drake Owoyesigire and Minister of...

Kabale University hosts the Science Technology and Innovation Parliamentary Committee

A team of 13 members of the Parliamentary Committee on Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) visited Kabale University in the exercise of their oversight mandate. The key role was to establish how the university promotes Science, technology and Innovation as laid out in the government and several collaborating stakeholders agenda. The team was pleased with...

Revolutionizing Technology in the West: Kabale University Unveils ICT Innovation Hub

The Commissioner for ICT in the Ministry of Information, Communication, Technology, and National Guidance, Mr. Silas Ngabirano, hailed Kabale University for being very instrumental in making innovations that are important in solving rural problems. Exhibition of student-generated innovations and their projects He said this while officiating at the Western Regional ICT Innovation Hub launch where he represented...

Kabale Regional Referral Hospital and KABSOM Doctors train in Laparoscopic surgeons

 Kabale Regional Referral Hospital together with the KAB University School of Medicine (KABSOM)  are hosting a team of medical workers from the Rural Surgery Innovations of India who will train and impart laparoscopic surgery skills among staff and students. Student doctors during the procedure According to Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Surgery, Dr. Robert...

KAB Engineering students win prizes at the 10th Edition of Arduino Day

Several students in the Faculty of Engineering, Technology, Applied Design, and Fine Art have won prizes in the 10th Edition of Arduino Day. The celebrations at Kabale University today Saturday, 25th March 2023 were organized by the Faculty of Engineering, Technology, Applied Design, and Fine Art in partnership with TME Education. TME Education is a global...

KAB Civil Engineering student awarded with a micro-grant of 990 GBP

Emmanuel Nuwagaba, a final year student of Bachelor of Civil Engineering at KAB has been awarded with a micro-grant of 990 GBP, an equivalent of about 4.4 million UGX to execute a project on ‘Modeling and Analysis of Bio Retention Systems for Removal of Stormwater Pollutants' by the Uganda Institute of Professional Engineers. Nuwagaba’s project aims...

Ruforum’s Prof. Adipala Ekwamu visits Kabale University

Prof. Adipala Ekwamu, the Executive Secretary of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) visited Kabale University on the 15th of July 2022. He was received by some members of the University Management led by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Prof. Benon Basheka. Prof. Benon C Basheka (DVC Academic Affairs -left) receiving...