Egerton University , endeavors to strengthen its international linkages and provision of Career Services. As part of its efforts to achieve this objective, the Directorate of International Linkages and Career Services is conducting a survey. The information gathered during the survey will assist the University to enhance its linkages to local and international learning and research institutions, and provision of Career Services to students. Please note that any information provided will be treated with utmost confidentiality.

Through a collaboration between Egerton University, faculty of health sciences, the East Africa Centre for vaccines and immunization (ECAVI) and Make A Medic (from the UK), 100 fourth year and 5^th year medical students received free stethoscopes on 10^th August, 2021; to help them improve their clinical skills in their medical training in the clinical areas. The collaboration is headed by Dr. Ombeva Malande, a lecturer in the department of pediatrics, saw medical students gifted with this important tool for medical practice.

The Alliance for African Partnership (AAP), has accepted its second cohort of African Futures Research Leadership program comprising some 10 outstanding female scholars from its member universities.

This is to inform you that there will be sale of livestock (Camels and Goats) through public auction at Chemeron Dryland Research Training and Ecotourism Centre on the 2nd of September 2021 as from 9.00AM.

The ‘SIM on Wheels’ is a mobile unit for simulation-based training of medical teams that employs advanced simulation-based training modalities that enable health care providers to effectively improve their clinical, communication, organizational and administrative abilities.

Egerton University promoted thirty-one academic staff members following a series of interviews conducted in August 2021. From a notice released by the Office of the Vice-Chancellor on 30 August 2021, ten academic staff members were promoted from associate professors to professors from interviews conducted on 19 and 20 August. Another notice released the same day indicated that twenty-one academic staff were promoted to associate professors from interviews conducted on 3, 10, 12 and 13 August 2021, respectively.

The Egerton University community mourns the passing of Prof. Richard S. Musangi and celebrates the University’s connection to this distinguished scholar, educator, and academic administrator. Prof. Musangi, who was born in 1934 in Bungoma County, Western Kenya, was the Principal of Egerton College between 1981 and 1987. Upon the elevation of the College to a University in the latter year, he became the inaugural Vice-Chancellor of Egerton University, serving in that capacity until 1992.

Egerton University lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health, Dr Ombeva Malande and other health workers who recovered from COVID-19 have written a book titled: SURVIVING COVID-19: Experiencing God’s overcoming grace - The reflections of Ombeva Malande and other health workers who suffered and recovered from COVID-19.

A section of medical professionals in Nakuru county have agreed to work closely with the Faculty of Law Legal Aid Project (FOLLAP) in helping survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) to access justice.

Egerton University Council has appointed Prof. Joshua O. Ogendo as the New Principal of Nakuru Town Campus College effective 16 August, 2021 for a period of five years through a competitive process that attracted a large number of applicants from several universities in Kenya. Professor Ogendo is an Associate Professor of crop protection (stored products entomology) in the Department of Crops, Horticulture and Soils, Faculty of Agriculture.

The Chancellor of Egerton University, Dr Narendra Rameshchandra Raval, EBS will be visiting the Nakuru Town Campus College on Friday 3^rd September, 2021.

The Centre for Integrated Water and Basin Management (CIWAB) was established in 2017 through engagement with stakeholders from public, private   and civil society organisations, and development partners. The Centre focuses on knowledge creation and dissemination for improved water security, livelihood diversification and ecosystem sustainability.

The Chancellor of Egerton University, Dr Narendra Raval, made his first visitation to Nakuru Town Campus College on Friday 3 September 2021.

Egerton University’s Chairman of Council Amb. Dr Luka Hukka Wario made some strides in August 2021 when a Grade Six for the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) book he co-wrote with other authors was approved during an evaluation of textbooks carried out by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD).

First-year students began participating in the orientation programme on 7 September 2021. This year, the orientation is in-person at Main Campus and Nakuru Town Campus College (NTCC), a change from last year’s virtual orientation programme.

Egerton University Council has appointed Professor Mwanarusi Saidi as the Registrar Academic Egerton University effective 16 August 2021 for a period of five years through a competitive process that attracted a large number of applicants from several universities in Kenya. Professor Mwanarusi Saidi is an Associate Professor of Horticulture in the Department of Crops, Horticulture and Soils, Faculty of Agriculture.

Egerton Engineering Students Association (EESA) in collaboration with Egerton University Students Association (EUSA) on Friday installed a dustbin in the school compound made out of recycled materials.

Dr Ruth Aura, the Dean Faculty of Law, presents the Faculty of Law’s five-year accreditation certificate from the Council of Legal Education (CLE) to the acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Isaac Kibwage, on 27 August 2021.Courtesy call to the acting Vice-Chancellor by the Dean,Faculty of Law- to hand over Certificate of full accreditation

Virginia Tech(Center for International Research, Education and Development) is working with many organizations in Africa engaging the youth in the area of ICT and Agricultural Economics. The Organization Is currently working with CESSAM to reach farmers and offer agricultural training to improve their products and search for markets using a WhatsApp flat form.

The organization is currently working in Kakamega and intents to call up on the University to initiate a common workshop in November 2021 to exchange ideas, before it comes to its end in December 2021.

Delivered on Monday, 13th September 2021, At Main Campus, Njoro During the 2021 First Years Orientation