UoN@50 outstanding achiever nominees

Prof. Wangari Maathai  (Posthumous)(RANK 1)

Pioneer environmental conservationist

• Awarded the 2004 Noble Peace Prize becoming the first African Woman Nobel Peace Laureate.
• Founder Distinguished Chair of Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, an institute established in her honour.
• Listed in UNEP’s Global 500 Hall of Fame as one of the 100 heroines of the world.
• Elected by Earth Times as one of 100 persons in the world making a difference in the environmental arena.
• Honored by Times Magazine as one of 100 most influential people in the world.
• Named by Forbes Magazine as of 100 most powerful women in the world

Prof. Stephen G. Kiama (in service)(RANK 2)

Outstanding service in resource mobilization for research and infrastructure for teaching and learning

Prof. Agnes W. Mwang’ombe (in service) (RANK 3)

Exemplary fund raising and research infrastructure development

• Fund raising for building of SEMIs Training and Seed Processing Facility which is used for local and international training.
• Recognized and awarded the Elder of the Burning Spear (EBS). Year???
• Awarded the IMPRESSA excellence in capacity building in CAVS.

Prof. Paul M. Kimani (in service) (RANK 4)

Leadership in breeding of new beans varieties

• Credited with the development of Kenya’s first climbing bean varieties, which were formally released and gazetted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Development and Fisheries.
• His pioneering work resulted in the first locally developed high yielding disease resistant onion cultivars, which were formally released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Development and Fisheries in 1994.
• In 2008 was decorated and awarded the Elder of the Burning Spear (EBS) for his contribution to agricultural research and science in Kenya.
• NACOSTI’s award for best oral paper presentation during the 2015 National Science week.
• Recognized as the best research scientist in the Faculty of Agriculture in 2007
• -Commercialization of beans varieties in collaboration with Kenya Seed Company.

Prof. Christopher N. Karue (Retired)(RANK 5)

Exemplary fund raising and research infrastructure development

• Instrumental in lobbying the Government to allocate12,000 acres to Kibwezi University Dryland field Station, which is now open for teaching for all disciplines.
• Instrumental in lobbying the Government to renew the 5th World Bank Education Development Loan Phase 5, leading to construction of the first postgraduate hall in Kabete, CAVS and 12 residential staff houses in Loresho.