College of Natural Science Research Thematic areas

Theme 1: Science and the Society

Nanotechnology
Strengthening and promoting science, mathematics and technology
Enhancing mushroom production and processing
Integrating indigenous knowledge and practices into scientific interventions
Radiation Effect and protection
Early warning information using geographic information system (GIS)
Small area estimation
Physiological effect of exercise on the human body
Statistical Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Biometric & Econometric modeling &analysis
Mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics
Operations research techniques
Mining geology
Mineralogy and mineral optics
Geophysics
Geochemistry
Engineering geology
Evolution of calendar system (oromo calendar )
Small scale industry

Theme 2: Education

Theme3: Environmental, Water, Health and Safety Issues

Theme 4: Water, Energy, Environment and Development Issues

Sub-Theme 4.1: Water and Environment

Water and food borne disease management
Fresh water organisms
Atmospheric pollution studies
Ground water potential assessment
Ground water resources management
Hydrological investigation and hydro geochemistry
Integrated hydrological and hydrogeological system analysis
Mathematical modeling in water and other resource management
Bayesian modeling and analysis
Water recycling
Environmental engineering analysis.
Environmental impact assessment
Vulnerability to climate change
Biodiversity and sustainable ecosystem conservation and management
Biological and other remediation measures for contaminated soil as well as air and water pollution
Molecular characterization of flora and fauna
Fishery and aquaculture research interventions
Instrumentation development for environment protection
Material structure studies using computational techniques
Sanitation project.
Water harvesting techniques.
Solid waste management
Liquid waste management
Water supply and sanitation (processes in treatment plants)
Environmental pollution control
Ecological sanitation technology
Climate change adaptation
Assessment of water sources
Water and sanitation management in slum and low income areas
Tissue culture (animal and plant)

Sub-Theme 4.2: Energy

Theme 5: Natural Resource and Development

Sustainable natural resources conservation, utilization and management
Developing biological control for crop pests and vectors
Behavioral Biology
Indigenous knowledge, soil degradation, poverty and farmers willingness in natural resource management
Restoration and rehabilitation of degraded lands.
Medicinal Plants
Soil fertility
Biodiversity (Wildlife) conservation and management.
Impact of infrastructure (road)on soil and water conservation
Landscape suitability analysis and capability classification
Wild life and its rangeland management
Faire protection and plants adaption
GIS Application on sustainable utilization and management of natural resources
Bio-Mining
Biomedical modeling and analysis
Distribution and abundance of plants
Ethno botanical plants
Nitrogen fixation
Genotype Phenotype characterization

Theme 6: Food and Nutrition Related Issues

Food preservation
Food inborn diseases
Food security and Health
Improvement of food products
Food microbiology
Food handlers
Physical and chemical food analysis
Food spoilage
Harmful and helpful traditional nutritional practices
The magnitude and types of nutritional problems in children
Prevalence and pattern of macronutrient deficiencies, micronutrient deficiencies
Factors related to nutrition related problems
Evaluation of nutrition intervention programs
Policy issues in nutrition

Theme 7: Information and Communication Technology

Automation
Information and awareness
Technology Business Incubation in Ethiopia
Development, follow-up policy, standards, procedure, guideline, of ICT at regional and national level.
Implement/ Support, E-government assignments, regionally and nationally.
Facilitate and coordinate the development of the required National ICT Infrastructure;
E-learning, E-Revenue, E-Agriculture, E-Environment, E-Education, E-commerce, E-government and E-health systems.
Institutional Archives and document management
National digital Library for Higher education
ICTs in education challenges and research questions
Telemedicine and health diagnosis
Health management information system and Electronic medical records
Agricultural market information system
Data mining
Student & integrated teaching information system and online teaching/learning models
Text analyzer in information systems
Software engineering and programming language
System design and analysis
Internet applications
Computer networking
Social network analysis
security system /camera system/
IT effectiveness in Enterprise Systems
Natural language processing
Artificial intelligence
Visual computing and
Theory and Algorithms