A dedicated week of activities to mark the 20th Anniversary celebration of the ascension of the Chancellor, His Royal Majesty, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, unto the Golden Stool and to celebrate his successes for the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Asanteman and the nation has officially been opened.
The KNUST-Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (KNUST-LISA) has organised a workshop on ‘Building Capacity of Female Scientists in Data Analysis for Decision Making and Strategic Planning’.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT), has collaborated with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop areas in Science and Technology.
Sixty (60) years of serving as a residential facility to accommodate about 10, 000 of students’ populace of KNUST in a peaceful serene environment, Queen Elizabeth II Hall has launched its 60th anniversary celebrations.
The Department of Sociology and Social Work has officially launched a new cooperation with the Social Work Department of Hoshschule Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (H_Da), Germany, dubbed ‘Educational Partnership in socio-pedagogical methods in social work towards improving the lives of Ghanaian children’.
As part of government’s policy to introduce new teacher education curriculum into the five (5) public Universities in Ghana, Institute of Educational Studies (IES) of the College of Art and Built Environment and other stakeholders have held a workshop towards this initiative.
An internship programme which seeks to build the technical and leadership skills of female students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) relevant for the job market and build up their confidence for public speaking is opened.
Patrons of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Hospital would now enjoy advanced imaging services with the hospital’s acquisition of a Siemens Somaton 6 Computerised Tomography (CT) Scan machine and a Siemens Digital X-ray machine with fluoroscopy.
Professor George William Intsiful of the Department of Architecture has stated that Ghana’s housing sector can contribute effectively to the ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ agenda if abandoned political projects are completed and investments are made in the local industry and the expertise of local experts, technology and materials are tapped into.
Ms. Lucia Schombee, a Customer Consultant and Research Intelligence Analyst at Elsevier, has called on African Universities to adopt and use SciVal, an intelligence tool, to enable research managers and management of Universities analyse the performance of their institutions in terms of publications, citations, impact and collaborations.
