The 14th batch of medical students at the University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences (UCCSMS), who have completed the pre-clinical phase of their training, have begun the clinical stage.
The Head of the Department of Mathematics at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. Peter Amoako-Yirenkyi, has urged African universities to take advantage of Artificial Intelligence (A1) to solve societal problems confronting the continent.
According to him, African universities could connect their innovative research with AI to solve seemingly impossible problems to achieve sustainable development.
The completed first phase of a 13 million Cedis multi-purpose building furnished with state-of-the-art facilities to accommodate the Centre for Coastal Management-Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR), University of Cape Coast (UCC) has been inaugurated.
A four-day conference to deliberate on ways toward sustainable food systems, national development, and youth employment through entrepreneurship, especially in Africa, has been organised by economists in the agriculture sector.
The Directorate of Finance Welfare Association (DoFWA) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has officially launched its 30th anniversary celebration with a colourful event.
The well-attended launch, themed: “Sustaining our Integrity and Objectivity in Unity” was chaired by the Provost of the College of Distance Education, Prof. Anokye Mohammed Adam, with a former Pro Vice-Chancellor of UCC, Prof. Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh, as the Special Speaker.
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.”