The Academic Registrar Mr. Humphrey Webuye wishes to notify all expelled students of the University of Nairobi that they can now submit their appeals for pardon to the Pardon Advisory Committee by completing the template/form attached. Kindly submit the duly completed template/form to the committee using the following email: pardonadvisory@uonbi.ac.ke The pardon advisory committee (PAC) has set guidelines that will see students appealing to the chair of the senate, and the committee will recommend a free or conditional pardon to an expelled student. They can also propose postponement punishment of a student, either for a specified or indefinite period, or substitute a less server form of punishment. To be eligible to file a pardon petition the student: • must demonstrate they have exhausted all internal administrative mechanisms; • must exhausted all administrative and legal mechanisms in place at the university on violation of the Code of conduct; • must have been accused of an offense and the process of conviction already completed; • must be required to state specific reasons for which pardon is sought and attach any relevant documentary evidence that indicates how a pardon will help them accomplish student life. However, students facing criminal cases in court are exempted from this pardon. The PAC guidelines state that the committee’s verdict is final with no appeal against their decision. The committee will review all the petitions presented and determine the students’ worthiness for relief. Written views of the victims of the violation will also be taken into account during the pardoning process.

The Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Enterprise (DVC-RIE) is calling on the University Community to submit articles as part of the year-long celebrations for UON@50. The office of the DVC-RIE has brought online the UON@50 Reflections website: https://reflections.uonbi.ac.ke. This will be a year-long project to document the history of the University through the eyes of those who were (and are) there.  The articles will be categorised starting with the Foundation Years (1954-1970), the Inaugural Decade (1970s), followed by each decade to 2020s.  The submitted articles should be of archival nature.  Please pass this appeal onto others, who may have left the university (graduated, retired, etc).  Submission instructions are at the bottom of the main page, https://reflections.uonbi.ac.ke. The faculty members who wish to volunteer to join the Editorial Board are requested to send an email to dvcrie@uonbi.ac.ke and madaraogot@uonbi.ac.ke with the subject 'Reflections Editorial Board'. Members of the Board shall vet and recommend the articles to be published.

The Office of Career Services wishes to notify all staff and students that the 2021 Two-Year Worldwide IBM PhD Fellowship for the academic years of 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 is now open for applications.   Strong collaboration with faculty, students and universities is vital to IBM.  The IBM PhD Fellowship Program advances this collaboration by recognizing and supporting exceptional PhD students who want to make their mark in promising and disruptive technologies. Focus areas include the following topics of particular interest: • Hybrid Cloud • Quantum Computing / Quantum Systems • Artificial Intelligence • Cloud / Open Source Technologies • Security / Cyber Security • Data Science • Systems The 2021 two-year IBM PhD Fellowships are awarded worldwide. • U.S. country awards are $60,000 in award year one and $35,000 in award year two. • Other country awards vary between $6,000-$25,000 each award year depending on the country. Additional Information: Students must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member. The nominator provides the supporting documentation (resume, list of publications, thesis topic, etc.), categorizes the student's initial career interests, and submits the nomination for evaluation. All IBM PhD Fellowship awardees are matched with an IBM mentor according to their technical interests and are encouraged to participate in an internship at least once while completing their studies. Students receiving a comparable fellowship or internship from another company or institution during the same academic period may not be eligible for an IBM PhD Fellowship. Students should have three years remaining in their graduate program at the time of nomination. For example, nominees that are enrolled in a four-year graduate program should have completed two years of their graduate program as of summer 2021 in order to benefit the most. IBM has received many outstanding and exceptional candidates from universities all over the world in the past and encourages universities to submit nominations by October 23, 2020. The IBM PhD Fellowship program also supports long-standing commitment to workforce diversity and encourages nominations of women, minorities and all who contribute to that diversity. The program seeks to increase the number of under-represented minority students in the referenced science topics of interest by encouraging a diverse applicant pool.  For additional program details and FAQs, please visit www.ibm.com/university/phdfellowship.  If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact phdfellow@us.ibm.com.