News & Events

GU Management Meets 1MT Nation (1MTN) for a Collaboration

Gulu University Management led by Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Associate Professor, Okello David Owiny has on the morning of 25th July 2023 met the team from 1MTN, an environmental organization sensitive of removing carbon dioxide pollution from the atmosphere and restoring degraded lands in Africa. The 1MTN team was led by Kristjan Raude their Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer and accompanied by the organizational top leadership as the Co-Founder and Chief Climate Officer...

Vice Chancellor Meets SAY Project Advisory Panel

Prof. Openjuru George Ladaah, the Vice Chancellor of Gulu University, received a multi-agency Advisory Panel of the Skilling in Agripreneurship for Increased Youth Employment (SAY) project on the 17th of July 2023 in the University Council Boardroom. The panel comprised officials from the Office of the President; Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries; Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development; and Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives. Others were...

Japan University Donates Microscope to Gulu University

Associate Professor David Okello Owiny the Gulu University Deputy Vice-Chancellor has on Tuesday 16th May 2023 received two Microscopes from Juntendo Medical University in Japan in appreciation and strengthening of an ongoing collaboration in Malaria Research between Gulu University and Japanese Universities which started in 2013 comprising of Juntendo and Osaka Universities in Japan. The microscopes were delivered by Prof. Toshihiro Mira at the Gulu University Microbiology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine...

UN Human Rights Donates Books to Gulu University

By Communications Office United Nations Human Rights office in Gulu has on Monday, 19th June 2023 donated over 1000 law books to Gulu University Library following the looming closure of all United Nations Human Rights offices in Uganda. Wafula Owor Emmanuel, the National Human Rights Officer team leader in Gulu said the books were part of their Resource Centre where the public and human rights scholars would do their reading from and...

Call for applications: The Africa Thesis Award 2023

The award aims to encourage students’ research and writing on African topics and to promote the study of African cultures and societies. It is presented annually to a student whose master's thesis has been completed on the basis of research conducted on an African topic. The award consists of a prize of € 500,- and the publication of the winning thesis in the ASCL’s African Studies Collection. All theses submitted...