
Umar Kakumba, PhD
@umarkakumba
Associate Professor and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) @Makerere l Former Dean of Faculty, Business & Management Sciences.
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http://mak.ac.ug 17-03-2012 14:17:18
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Dr. Michael Pippenger: You need to listen first to know your partners. To produce a global student citizen, you must have a global mechanism. Being a global student allows you to listen to different voices & perspectives. #MakerereAt100 U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Barnabas Nawangwe Lorna Magara


Deputy Vice Chancellor Umar Kakumba, PhD has just opened the Final Dissemination workshop for Carnegie Corporation of New York supported project: Supporting Early Career Academics Programme 2019-2022 #MakResearch


Assoc. Prof. Umar Kakumba, PhD said that #research is beyond publications, universities should change communities through #research


Here inviting the Makerere University academic community and the Public to the Inaugural Professorial Lecture to be delivered by Prof. John Muyonga, Friday 23/6/2023 starting 2pm. Makerere University CAES @MakDRGT Makerere University Convocation Makerere Endowment Fund MUASA


#HappeningNow The Deans' Forum (MUDF) led by the Patron; DVC -Academic Affairs, Umar Kakumba, PhD is holding an engagement on the agenda of safeguarding Makerere University, Career Guidance and the development of the necessary guidelines and policies.


Welcoming the new Executive of Makerere University Deans' Forum, the Patron, Prof Umar Kakumba, PhD reiterated the need for the academic leaders to champion multi-disciplinary research & joint partnerships. He has congratulated the outgoing Chairperson, Prof Rhoda Wanyenze for fostering this.



Congratulations, Dr. Susan Kiguli Makerere Department of Literature Dept. for winning the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award in poetry. Continue shining; Makerere University is proud of you.

.Makerere University Deans' Forum (MDF) is holding a one-day training. MDF is a platform for Deans in the quest to build individual and joint capacity to influence processes and decisions as academic leaders. The Chairperson of MDF is Dr. Arthur Tugume and patronised by DVCAA Umar Kakumba, PhD


#HappeningNow Makerere University Deans' Forum training.Discussion: Deanship as a node of academic excellence (Experiences from sciences & humanities), intellectual property management, understanding the Makerere University research innovations policy etc Arthur Tugume Umar Kakumba, PhD



This afternoon Deputy Vice Chancellor Umar Kakumba, PhD met with Drs. Robert Salat, Joseph Willis and George Yendewa from Case Western Reserve to discuss the construction of a facility for TB and HIV/TB Education, Research and Care Centre.


The facility is to consolidate 35 yrs of collabolation with Mulago National Referral Hospital, Makerere University, Case Western Reserve Ministry of Health- Uganda, Uganda Heart Institute & Uganda Cancer Institute. Under the partnership, more than 150 Ugandans have been trained in Masters and Doctoral Programs and 98% trainees are serving in Uganda.


Led by H.E. Xavier Sticker, a delegation from Campus France & reps. from 🇫🇷 universities were this morning received by Ag. Vice Chancellor Prof. Umar Kakumba, PhD. Present were officials from Ministry of Education and Sports - Uganda. Discussions preceded the #FrenchStudyAndJobFair #HappeningNow at Makerere.


Mufti Mufti Menk praised #Uganda for the good weather and the good environment, preached about behavioral changes including working hard, living in harmony with others most especially from a different faith.


Thank you, Mufti Menk, for the great gesture in being hosted Makerere University. Thanks for delivering such an insightful and inspirational message in your public lecture that was appealing to thousands of youths and older people, across the religious divide.


Representing Makerere University Vice Chancellor Barnabas Nawangwe, DVC Academic Affairs, Prof Umar Kakumba, PhD applauded Prof. Gakwandi & Mwalimu Bukenya for the impactful contribution to building literature Makerere University CHUSS & the body of knowledge Makerere University. #GakwandiBukenya80


Prof. Umar Kakumba, PhD: “Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, the story of Rwanda since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi is one of resilience and determination. It is one founded on the ethos that one does not recover by ignoring uncomfortable truths but by confronting them

The DVCAA Prof. Umar Kakumba, PhD has hosted Presidents Dr. Beshir Abdullahi (PhD) and Dr. Muhammad Usman Darasa (PhD) of @JigjigaUnivEth and Samara University of Ethiopia respectively to discuss collaboration with Mak in joint research, staff and student exchange and mobility. Areas of focus
