Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology through the Directorate of International Relations and Academic Linkages (DIAL), has today officially launched assorted equipment courtesy of DAAD funded project dubbed ‘practice-oriented University Education in Western Kenya (ProUniEdu-WeK)’. The assortment of equipment and software launched will ensure effective teaching, learning and research in collaboration with faculty from BAUS at MMUST.

The recent visit to Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology on 8^th July 2021 by H.E the Governor, Hon Wycliffe Oparanya is bound to greatly enhance the already cordial working relations between the two government institutions. Hon. Wycliffe Oparanya has been associated with MMUST even before he became the governor. “The partnership between MMUST’s School of Medicine and the County government has allowed MMUST to use facilities for County hospital for teaching and the doctors from the hospital to teach at MMUST. This began in 2015 and will go on up to 2025. We are interested in strengthening the relationship further,” stated H.E Hon. Oparanya.

MMUST’s quest to achieve superb global positioning in academic publishing is soon going to bear fruit through a campaign mooted by the Webometrics Unit, Directorate of Research and Post-Graduate Support, Directorate of Postgraduate Studies and the Directorate of Corporate Communications and Marketing to popularize publishing in ‘credible’ journals. Two MMUST scholars, Dr. Edwin Kimutai Kanda of Civil and Structural Engineering and the Coordinator of Webometrics and Short Courses, Dr. Dennis Ochieno, is leading the campaign dubbed, ‘Avoid Dr. Kanda’s Dustbin’.  ‘Dustbin’ is a collection of journals which are not indexed in credible databases.

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) , on 12th July, 2021, received cheque donations of 50,000/= and 40,000/= from Invest and Grow(IG) Sacco,Kakamega.The Ksh 50,000 is towards the 14^th Multi-disciplinary Conference while the Ksh. 40,000 is their contribution to support MMUST’s Upcoming 16^th Graduation Ceremony slated for 20^th August,2021.

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology’s School of Natural Sciences (SONAS) has taken steps to address factors influencing completion rates of its postgraduate students. This was during a semi-virtual Seminar that took place on Friday, 2^nd July, 2021.

We may have outlived the days of medicine men and the use of herbs to cure diseases but that does not mean medicine men do not exist anymore and the herbs are no longer effective. In fact, contrary to these modern day beliefs, a team from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology was entranced by a special reintroduction to the ways our forefathers treated illnesses courtesy of Motomwaka Biodiversity Conservation Group. Some of these herbs are among those we bypass every day not realizing how potent they are in treating our health issues. Soon we may not need to run for chemically produced drugs.

MMUST Scholars will benefit from Research Management Training by SARIMA and BRECcIA. Sixteen (16) scholars have been nominated through the MMUST BRECcIA team through a process managed by BRECcIA project,  University of Southampton-UoS.

The pandemic has been accompanied by an infodemic, we are at risk of both the infodemic and the pandemic. Research findings presented during the recent 2021 Kenya DAAD Scholars Virtual Conference has established that inaccurate information revolving on Covid 19 could be more a pandemic than the adversities of the virus itself. The misleading information has been proved to create massive fear in the society leading to more fatalities and severe conditions.