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CEDAT Celebrates Retiring Staff in End-of-Year Farewell

Published by Musinguzi Harriet. Honoring our retiring staff with a cake-cutting ceremony alongside the Principal and Deputy Principal, CEDAT. The College of Engineering, Design, Art, and Technology (CEDAT), Makerere University, closed the year with a special celebration honoring retiring staff members. The event recognized academic, administrative, and support staff for their contributions to the College...

Engineering for Impact: Makerere Students and Engineers Without Borders East Africa Partner to Transform Kasozi Health Center III

Pius Kikomeko & Harriet Musinguzi From 9th to 11th December 2025, a multidisciplinary team of engineering students from the Makerere University School of Engineering, in collaboration with Engineers Without Borders East Africa (EWB-EA), undertook a critical field visit to Kasozi Health Center III under EWB-EA’s WALLACE project. The three-day excursion was designed to bridge the...

Makerere’s Exhibition Show cases Art as a catalyst for Decolonisation

Makerere University placed art at the heart of its Narrative Practices Conference, unveiling an exhibition from the Margret Trowel School of Industrial and Fine Art (MTSIFA) that reimagines myths and everyday life. The showcase highlighted how visual creativity can act as a catalyst for decolonisation, inviting audiences to engage with African realities through images that...

CEDAT’s OSHE Project Team Meet OSH Officials at Ministry of Gender to Strengthen National Safety Policies

By Kikomeko Pius & Harriet Musinguzi The OSHE Team at the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development Makerere University’s School of Engineering has taken a bold step toward reshaping national safety standards. On November 21, 2025, a team spearheading the project to advance Occupational Safety, Health, and Environment (OSHE) knowledge and skills paid a...

Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs Conducts Stakeholder Consultation on Defense Research and Development Policy at Makerere University

Officials from the Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs (MODVA) in a consultative meeting at Makerere University. On November 26th, 2025, the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs (MODVA) held a stakeholder consultation at Makerere University as part of the ongoing development of Uganda’s Defence Research and Development Policy. Hosted at the College of Engineering,...

Erasmus Exchange Prof.’s Mak Photo wins Poland National Prize

Dr. Tomasz Padło (Right) with the Dean Margaret Trowel School of Industrial and Fine Art (MTSIFA) Assoc. Prof. Amanda Tumusiime (Centre) and the International Relations Office’s Ms. Betty Nabisubi (Left). Dr. Tomasz Padło, an Erasmus Exchange Professor from the Institute of Painting and Artistic Education UKEN, Poland won first prize in the prestigious Grand Press...
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