The Chairman of the Department of Food Science Nutrition and Technology Dr. G.O.Abong' held an online meeting with postgraduate students on May 18, 2020 1.30 to 2.30 pm. A total of 41 students were able to connect and attend the meeting. The following was discussed
Written by Sarah Cherere Obara
In biology, immunity is the balanced state of multicellular organisms having adequate biological defenses to fight infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion, while having adequate tolerance to avoid allergy, and autoimmune diseases. Supplementation is the use of pills or special types of food in order to improve your health.
The web of science ranking that featured Kenyan authors between 2014 and 2020 saw three of the departmental staff ranked among top 500 authors. Prof. Michael Wandayi Okoth, a food process engineer with lots of experience ranked 299 with 21 peer reviewed publications, Dr. George Abong, Chair of the Department and Senior lecturer (Food Chemistry) ranked 387 with 18 peer reviewed publications and The Later Mr.
MANGO PROCESSING TRAINING
Mentorship session for Food Nutrition and Dietetics Students year one. By Dr. Alice Ojwang of the Technical University of Kenya, she was invited by Ms Sarah Obara the class mentor. The students were also trained on Nutrition assessment.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. S.G. Kiama addressed Staff and Students on online teaching and learning on 9th April, 2020 at 11.00 am
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The Department of Food Science Nutrition and Technology admit students in there PHD Programmes Throughout an academic year, in these academic year 2019-2020 we admitted Five PhD students in r various programmes i.e PhD Food Science and Technology , Applied Human Nutrition and Food Safety and Quality.
In the thiird year of study the FND students go for Supervised experience in health facilities (equivalent of level 4 and above calibre) employing dieticians at which each student are placed for eight weeks to practice hospital based patients’ diets, diet and food therapy in disease treatment including nutrition pharmacology and acquire skills in management of hospital/patients’ and therapeutic diets.
In the fourth year of study the BSc. FND students are be expected to conduct a research in an area relevant to Human Nutrition and write a report for presentation in a seminar. This was done on March 13, 2020 for the current class . The course coordinator is Prof. Wambui Kogi-Makau.
