Two members of staff of the Directorate of University Health Services ( DUHS)  have been awarded at the 2nd National Medical Excellence Awards for their outstanding achievements in the field of healthcare delivery.

The award ceremony, held at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Accra, was aimed at boosting the confidence and morale of professionals in the health sector.

The Medical Excellence Awards (MEA) for Healthcare Delivery Personnel was established in 2011 with the objective of honouring health care delivery works both in public and private sector.

The Department of Music and Dance has held a concert of music in memory of the late Dr. Joe Atta-Quartey, an alumni and a former lecturer of the Department, to round-off its activities for the semester.

The late Dr. Joe Atta-Quartey, who was described as an “Ace Conductor”, because of the dexterity he showed when leading choirs, promoted research and choral music in the University of Cape Coast.

The Directorate of Research Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC) has organised a day’s workshop on Publication Outlets, Researcher Visibility and External Engagement to explain the need for lecturers to publish beyond Ghana.

The workshop was also aimed at building the capacity of lecturers to improve their writing skills.

Opening the workshop, the Director of DRIC, Prof. Samuel Annim, urged lecturers to sign onto the Google Scholar platform so as to make themselves visible to the world through their publications.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Beautiful Creations Company Limited, Mr. Samuel Dankyi Ansong, has donated medical equipment worth GH100,000.00 to the School of Allied Health Sciences under the College of Health and Allied Sciences.

The items included office swivel chairs, four drawer cabinet, metal cupboards, printers, laptops, hospital wheel chairs, laboratory coats, advanced microscope, steel dustbins, eye charts, weighing scale with adult height measure, scanners, diagnosis sets, hospital trolleys, among others.

EXIM Bank Ghana has presented GH¢100,000 each to 20 young graduate entrepreneurs to enhance their businesses at a ceremony held at the Alisa Hotel, Accra.

The Center for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD), has organized a workshop for female administrators, both senior members and senior staff members, to build their capacities on gender issues.

It was also aimed at fulfilling the mission of CEGRAD in educating and training the University community to understand gender and sexual harassment issues.

The Director of the Directorate of Research,Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC), Prof. Samuel Anim, has urged female administrators to protect the image of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).

To this end, Prof. Anim charged them to inculcate the sense of professionalism in all their endeavours at the workplace.

A Professor from the Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA, has delivered a public lecture on the the topic “Caribbean Masculinity and Enslavement”. The Centre for International Education (CIE) in collaboration with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Science organized the lecture. The lecture was to explain the issue of the construction and performance of masculinity in the context of slavery.

The Provost of the College of Health and Allied Sciences, Prof. Harold Amonoo- Kuofi, has re-echoed the importance of research in the forward march of any institution.

To this end, Prof. Amonoo- Kuofi has appealed to students and health professionals to show keen interest in research so as to enrich their knowledge and provide better services to their clients.

Prof. Amonoo said this at the 6th International Conference on Surgery organised by the Department of Surgery under the College of Health and Allied Sciences for medical professionals and students.

A lecturer at the Kennesaw State University, USA, Prof. Samuel Baidoo, has donated assorted books to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He appealed to the students at the Department to make judicious use of the books. Prof. Baidoo said the gesture was his personal social responsibility to facilitate teaching and learning at the Department. The Head of Department, Dr. Brempong Osei-Tutu, who received the donation, thanked Prof. Abaidoo for the kind gesture. Dr. Osei-Tutu said that the books would significantly help improve teaching and learning at the Department.