MKU innovator Fight Hunger, Food Waste Amid COVID-19
Before the coronavirus outbreak, food insecurity was already a severe problem. More than 820 million people – one in every nine – do not have enough to eat. Of these, 113 million are coping...
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COV-AID Student Engagement Award.
Do you know undergraduate students engaged with their local community? Do you know students interested in talking with their peers around the world? In this time of crisis, we believe civic engagement is more vital to society than ever before. We...
How to Keep Going Despite the Huge Challenge of COVID-19
Humankind has been faced with uncertainties of unknown magnitude over the years, but COVID-19 has proved to be a catastrophic pandemic that has continued to take lives, rob peace, and rattle comfort from many...
Call for COVID-19 Innovations
Are you working on a solution or a specific challenge caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic? Mount Kenya University’s College of Research and Graduate studies invites both students and staff with technologies and innovations that...
Studying medicine at MKU: Pioneer students share their memories, views and experiences
The first students of medicine at Mount Kenya University (MKU) are due to graduate at the end of this year. By then, they will have walked an intense six-year journey of training, mentorship and...
Battle against COVID-19: Debunking the Myths & Providing Solutions through Research
By Dr Peter Kirira As the world continues to grapple with effects of the Armageddon-scale Coronavirus disease, expert opinion is being drowned by misinformation, deep-seated stereotypes, and fake news. The three most prominent myths...
Donation of Hand Sanitizers to the community
Mount Kenya University in response to preventive and containment measures against Coronavirus is producing alcohol- based hand sanitizers to ease accessibility by the university students, staff and general public. MKU has donated hand sanitisers to the government...
Africa must emulate China to defeat corona
The global outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) emanating from China has sent the world into a state of distress. Continents are fighting a pandemic that is threatening global markets and trade, challenging countries’...
Coping with COVID -19 related depression
No doubt COVID-19 is devastating the human society both at a personal and at social-economic levels. According to professionals, the mental health / psychological impact of COVID-19 related challenges such as self-quarantine, curfews, infections,...
COVID-19 QUARANTINE: OVERCOMING MASS DISTRESS
Dr Maroko Gilbert Mokua, HOD – Department of Psychology On December 30th 2019, the city of Wuhan in Hubei province in China became the epicenter of COVI-19. Initially, local authorities in Wuhan downplayed the significance...