Unam confers posthumous PhD
ILENI NANDJATO
A University of Namibia lecturer who died last year was honoured with a posthumous doctor of philosophy (PhD) degree during the Unam northern campus’s graduation ceremony at Oshakati yesterday.
Selma Neshulu Niitembu died in October 2016, months after completing her PhD in agriculture.
The congregation observed a moment of silence in her honour, while a family member received her degree certificate as well as a printed copy of her dissertation.
Niitembu was based at Unam’s Ogongo campus at the time of her death. She conducted her PhD research on the productivity of pearl millet-cowpea and peal millet-bambara groundnut intercrops under conventional and no-tillage systems in north central Namibia.
During yesterday’s ceremony Unam conferred diplomas, bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees on more than 610 graduands from Angola, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia mainly in agriculture, computer science, education, engineering and nursing.
Unam chancellor Nangolo Mbumba also attended the ceremony and offered words of encouragement to the graduates.
“We expect our graduands who have gained theoretical or practical proficiency of degree courses they have completed in various academic disciplines to be guided in the application of such knowledge to address the development challenges facing Namibia by ageless principles such as truth, justice and good morals, and to make healthy and beneficial decisions for their personal and the country’s wellbeing,” he said.
A University of Namibia lecturer who died last year was honoured with a posthumous doctor of philosophy (PhD) degree during the Unam northern campus’s graduation ceremony at Oshakati yesterday.
Selma Neshulu Niitembu died in October 2016, months after completing her PhD in agriculture.
The congregation observed a moment of silence in her honour, while a family member received her degree certificate as well as a printed copy of her dissertation.
Niitembu was based at Unam’s Ogongo campus at the time of her death. She conducted her PhD research on the productivity of pearl millet-cowpea and peal millet-bambara groundnut intercrops under conventional and no-tillage systems in north central Namibia.
During yesterday’s ceremony Unam conferred diplomas, bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees on more than 610 graduands from Angola, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia mainly in agriculture, computer science, education, engineering and nursing.
Unam chancellor Nangolo Mbumba also attended the ceremony and offered words of encouragement to the graduates.
“We expect our graduands who have gained theoretical or practical proficiency of degree courses they have completed in various academic disciplines to be guided in the application of such knowledge to address the development challenges facing Namibia by ageless principles such as truth, justice and good morals, and to make healthy and beneficial decisions for their personal and the country’s wellbeing,” he said.
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