
UKZN Celebrates Medical Alumni Legends
The School of Clinical Medicine (SCM) honoured two pre-eminent medical alumni at its recently held “On-the-couch” event titled, Celebrating Alumni Legends in Medicine.
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School of Law academic Dr Phemelo Magau not only completed a Doctor of Laws (LLD) in two years, but achieved this qualification at the young age of 25.
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The Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) within the College of Humanities will host the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) from 21 to 30 July. The 43rd edition of the festival programme speaks to the curatorial theme Adaptation, Survival and Sustainability.
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Postdoctoral researcher Dr Raksha Janak and PhD student in the School of Education Ms Diloshni Govender attended the Local Democracy Academy in Sweden organised by the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) in co-operation with Uppsala University and Uppsala Forum for Africa Studies.
Professor Purshottama Reddy who is attached to the School of Management, Information Technology and Governance participated virtually in the annual conference of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) held in Rome from 27 June to 1 July.
Social media is awash with reactions to the tragedy at eNyobeni Tavern. Some are blaming the 1980’s generation for failing to be good role models for the 2000s generation, while others accuse the latter of being the most irresponsible, unruly, and difficult generation.
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The School of Nursing nominated three of its students, Mr Solomon Ntimugura, Ms Dana du Toit and Ms Sandisiwe Mkhwanazi for Exceptional Nurse Awards.
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Senior lecturer in UKZN’s School of Medicine, Dr Veena Singaram received the Southern African Association of Health Educationalists (SAAHE) Distinguished Educator Award at the association’s 20th annual conference in June.
UKZN’s Innovation Office, InQubate hosted the British Council on a site visit to observe developments of the Innovation for African Universities (IAU) programme which is designed and funded by the British Council with the aim of advancing entrepreneurial developments and research partnerships between African and United Kingdom universities.
Professor of Animal Science Ignatius Nsahlai shared his decades of experience in assessing ruminant nutrition at his inaugural lecture on the nature of diet intake by ruminants, unpacking useful models to estimate the energy available to livestock from their nutrition.