The Acting Chief Justice Alphonse Owiny-Dollo has today sworn in the new National Physical Planning Board (NPPB).The event was held earlier today at the High Court premises in Kampala.The 10-member Board is led by Makerere University’s Mrs Amanda Ngabirano who was handed the instruments of power by the outgoing Chairperson.The event was attended by the...Read More

Two teams of students from Makerere University’s College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT) have won Gold and Silver at the Efficiency for Access Design Challenge for their projects entitled ‘Standalone solar load management system’ and ‘Solar energy efficient fish dryer’ respectively. The Grand Final event held on Monday 29th June 2020 saw UK teams from...Read More

Group photo taken in front of the Gallery at the close of the exhibition Mathias Tusiime, the man who used to fix our white canvases onto frames, assisted female Art students to suspend their murals on high studio walls in the late nineties is now a soaring Ugandan Artist. The popular story about Tusiime receiving...Read More

It is always a crucial and exciting moment in the history of a company: the creation of the logo. So it was for Communauts. They needed one wanted one that reflected their core values, their mission and which was created in Uganda. So here is how it evolved: Communauts wants to create opportunities for Ugandan...Read More

We are all aware that on 31st December 2019, The Peoples Republic of China notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an outbreak of a pneumonia-causing illness. The illness was later confirmed to be due to a new strain of Coronavirus, and the disease referred to as Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). On 30th January 2020, WHO declared this...Read More

The College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT) held its 9th Annual Open day on 28th and 29th February 2020. The Open Day, which was launched in 2012 aims at exhibiting and promoting the innovative research ideas of students at the College. This year, the guest of honor at the event was Hon Florence...Read More

The chair, electrical and computer engineering, Dr. Jonathan Sserugunda addresses participants at the workshop On February 27th 2020, the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DECE) held a  stakeholders’ workshop to review the curriculum of the proposed Bsc. Computer and Communications Engineering programme (CCE). The new programme will merge Bsc. Telecommunications Engineering and Bsc. Computer...Read More

Robert Burns, giving his lecture to the public On Tuesday 26th February 2020, the Department of Architecture and Physical Planning hosted Irish based Senior Engineer, Robert Burns in a guest lecture in urban planning. The lecture that started at 2:00pm in CEDAT Conference Hall. Robert is a Senior Engineer at Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council,...Read More

Different But One is an annual exhibition featuring the most recent art works by the teaching staff at Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art (MTSIFA). It includes works from all the different disciplines of art in the department: painting, sculpture, ceramics, fashion, jewelry, weaving, video art and more. In her remarks, the exhibition’s...Read More

On Tuesday 18th February 2020, Maximus Byamukama, a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering successfully defended his PhD titled “Energy Harvesting, Storage and Management for Environment Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in the East African Region”. Maximus (Centre) in group photo with his advisors and panelists after his defense His study investigated...Read More