The Fistula Day, which has been celebrated for the 5th time in Ethiopia and 6th at the global level, was celebrated at Jimma University. The national celebration of the day was organized by Jimma University with the motto “Leaving no one behind: Let us commit to ending Fistula now” in collaboration with various governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
Jimma and Salale University signed Software development agreement on 18th May 2018. The agreement covers multiple software development projects to ease traditional manual processing of the institution that critically result in serious delays in decision making at different levels of the university which ultimately reduce overall performance of the university.
A public lecture on “Misuse of Statistics in Research” was held at the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) on 11 May 2018. The public lecture was made by Dr. Shibru Temesgen, an Associate Professor of Statistics at Addis Ababa University.
In his lecture, Dr. Shibru, listed and discussed in depth various common statistical misuses which the researchers often commit in the process of their research undertaking right from research design through data collection/generation, handling, analysis and interpretation.
Oromia Science and Technology Development Agency and Jimma University signed an agreement on Wednesday 9th of May 2018 to join hands to execute training and software development Project.
The EIAR as the first nationally coordinated agricultural research system in Ethiopia with a mission to formulate national agricultural research guidelines, coordinate National Agricultural Research System, and undertake research has been one of the institutions invited to the 9th Annual Research Conference of JU represented by a team of experts headed by Dr. Mandefro Nigussie, Director General of the institution.