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This is to inform all students that the semester dates have been extended by three weeks.

This is due to the disruption of face-to-face teaching and learning brought on the third wave of COVID 19 which led to the abrupt closure of the university. The school has continued with online teaching and learning in the meantime to mitigate the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic situation.

This is to you that the second-semester examination will therefore commence on 7th June 2021 up to and including 18th June 2021.

The School of Biological Sciences hosted an international webinar on ‘Managing 2019/2021 desert locust upsurge: The Kenyan experience’ on March 10th 2020

Prof. Nyamasyo handed over project vehicle to the school. He retired in June 2020 from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi. Prof.

Dear all,

School of Biological Sciences will conduct a virtual MSc. and PhD proposal presentation seminar from 17th November, 2020 to 18th November, 2020. 

The School of Biological Sciences take this early opportunity to congratulate all the graduands of class 2020 for this very important milestone in your life and wish you well in your future endeavours.

Supplementary/Special exams for academic year 2019/2020 will start virtually on 28th September, 2020. Kindly take note all students from School of Biological Sciences. 

The School of Biological Sciences wishes to take this early opportunity to congratulate and welcome all the students who have been selected for the various degree programmes at the School of Biological Sciences, the University of Nairobi.

Founders of Isiolo Conservationist Trust (ICT) who are also third and fourth year students studying Environmental Conservation and Natural Resource Management, took up the challenge to participate in the Mazingira Challenge organized by Chiromo Enivironmental Awareness Club (CEAC) on Friday February 7, 2020. 

Musa Mohamud, Salad Abdi, Issa Mohamed though wanted to gain more on environmental conservation ideas, much to their amazement, scooped the first-runners up position. They referred to themselves as Team Kanga. 

Prof. Pierluigi, a lecturer at the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar, is the ambassador for United Nations' International University Network on Cultural and Biological Diversity (IUNCBD). The aim of the network is to link Education Science Policy to Society especially in the area of enviromental conservation.

Late Prof. John O. Kokwaro passed of Friday 13th December, 2019 in Nairobi Hospital where he was undergoing treatment. Prof. John O. Kokwaro was one of the renowned African botanists of the 20th and 21st Centuries and his death has robbed one of the great scholars of our time.