The Design Thinking and Innovation Hub (D-Hub) of the University of Cape Coast and the Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC), have organised the southwest zonal KIC AgricTech Challenge Classic 2023 for young entrepreneurs of UCC and the Takoradi Technical University.
About 37 business startups pitched their business ideas to a panel of judges known in the competition as the Ideation Team.
Helping Africa Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has donated books to the Sam Jonah Library of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).
The books included African Biography, The Price of Civilisation, The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, and The End of Poverty.
The donation forms part of a project initiated by the NGO to encourage students in the Central Region to read and enhance their academic performance.
A former acting Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Prof. Martin Bosompem, has rebuffed suggestions among a section of the public that research works by academia are lying on the shelves to the detriment of policymakers.
He insisted that policy makers were rather not interested in using their studies to address challenges affecting national development and, therefore, implored the general public to clear up the popular misconception.
A professor of Coastal Ecology and Interdisciplinary Oceans Studies, Prof. Denis Worlanyo Aheto, has expressed grave concern over the dire consequences Ghana’s ocean stands to suffer following the indiscriminate disposal of plastic waste into the ocean.
According to him, the pollution of the ocean has an overwhelming bearing on staple food and the over two million Ghanaians whose livelihoods depend on it.
The Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, H.E Alhaji Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, has formally opened the 3rd Conference on Fisheries and Coastal Environment (CFCE) currently being held in Accra. The Conference is on the theme, “Inclusive Blue Economy in Africa: Towards Sustainable Transformation of the Marine Environment.”
The Department of Physician Assistant Studies has held exit meeting for a group of students from the Marist College, USA, who undertook a five-week clinical rotation at the University of Cape Coast (UCC).
The clinical rotation afforded the visiting American students hands-on practical experience in all specialties under the guidance of seasoned consultants and specialists in some health facilities in the Central Region.
Peer Reviewers from the Central Regional Health Directorate have given high marks to the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Hospital for raising the quality of healthcare delivery in the region.
The Hospital scored 95.6 per cent for adhering to the tenets of healthcare delivery, as espoused in the principles and standard of the Regional Health Directorate.
More than 85 per cent scores, according to the Directorate, was the highly performing mark after assessment.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, has led an eight-member delegation from the University to attend the 2023 RUFORUM AGM being held in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
The event, which began on Monday, 31st October, 2023, is expected to end on Thursday, 2nd November, 2023 at the Palais des Congrés.
It is on the theme, “Transforming Higher Education to Sustainability Feed and Create Prosperity for Africa”.
A US-based Ghanaian, Prof. Michael O. Bonsu, has presented some Mathematics books to the Department of Mathematics of the University of Cape Coast.
Presenting the books at a short ceremony on behalf of the donor, the Dean of the School of Biological Sciences, Prof. Aaron Tettey Asare, said the books would enhance the studies of students of the Department.
The Directorate of Public Affairs has engaged staff of the University of Cape Coast in the use of uniformed letterhead of the University.
According to the Directorate, the inconsistency in the usage of the letterhead by some Colleges, Directorates, Faculties, Schools, Departments and Sections has become a major concern to the corporate image of the University.
