Ms Snethemba Ngema earned a gold medal at the Confederation of Universities and Colleges Sports Association (UCSA) Games in Malawi.Third-year UKZN Sports Science student Ms Snethemba Ngema earned her first ever international gold medal at the recent Confederation of Universities and Colleges Sports Association (UCSA) Games in Malawi where she was part of the South African University Athletics national team.
Esteemed epidemiologist, Dr Anil Mangla.UKZN’s College of Health Sciences hosted a webinar on Monkeypox Epidemiology: Clinical Characteristics, Preparedness and Response, presented by alumnus Dr Anil Mangla, who is the State Epidemiologist for Washington DC in the United States (US).
26th Poetry Africa International Festival runs from 6 to 16 October.Click here for isiZulu version
The Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) hosts the 26th Poetry Africa International Festival in Durban and Johannesburg from 6 to 16 October, with some of the sessions taking place virtually.
Highlights of Ms Thuso Mbedu and co-star Mr John Boyega visiting UKZN for a promotional tour of The Woman King.Pietermaritzburg-born actress Ms Thuso Mbedu and co-star Mr John Boyega visited UKZN as part of the KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission (KZNFC) The Woman King Activation Tour to meet and greet media and film studies students from the College of Humanities’ School of Arts.
Technical Advisory Group members with WHO representatives Director Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminatha.Professor Gavin George of the Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD) at UKZN participated in the first in-person meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Technical Advisory Group (the TAG) which focused on Behavioural Insights (BI) and Sciences for Health since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fun-filled Colour Run hosted for residence students.
Highlights from the Tourism Symposium.Click here for isiZulu version
UKZN’s Culture Cluster in the School of Social Sciences hosted a tourism symposium titled: Rethinking Tourism for the Benefit of Culture and Heritage Students and Graduates.
The Youth Entrepreneurial Foundation Workshop held on the Pietermaritzburg campus.The Youth Entrepreneurial Foundation workshop aimed at helping create a world of innovative entrepreneurs using the power of networking to bring about future solutions was hosted by the UKZN Nazareth Tertiary Students Association (NATESA) on the Pietermaritzburg campus.
Highlights from the Keep It Cool-Climate Change certificate celebration. 
MLCCP patient navigator Ms Sthabile Mdluli and one of the wheelchairs available through the loan service. The Patient Navigation Team at the Cancer and Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Unit (CIDERU) and the Multinational Lung Cancer Control Programme (MLCCP) at UKZN have worked together to establish a wheelchair loan service for their patients.
Professor Claudia Mitchell. Click here for isiZulu version
Honorary Professor Claudia Mitchell of the School of Education has been awarded the 2022 José Vasconcelos World Award of Education by the World Cultural Council (WCC).
Professor Augustine Gubba has spent his Fulbright Fellowship at Clemson University’s Coastal Research and Education Center and the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service’s US Vegetable Laboratory in South Carolina.Professor Augustine Gubba of the School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences (SAEES) has spent a nine-month sabbatical at institutions in the United States (US) where he is strengthening research collaborations that will contribute the latest advances in gene-editing technologies to his research into developing plant virus resistance.
Mr Brent Yelland in action at the Tour Durban Mountain Bike event.Click here for isiZulu version
Third-year Mechanical Engineering student Mr Brent Yelland won the 40km aQuellé Tour Durban Mountain Bike event - which started and ended at the Cornubia Mall in Umhlanga - in a record time of 1hr 23min.
Dr Garikai Membele.
Ms Layyah Kharwa celebrating her birthday with newly-made friends at the Law Faculty of the University of Oslo in Norway and bonding with the sled-huskiesClick here for isiZulu version
Third-year LLB student Ms Layyah Kharwa spent six months at the University of Oslo in Norway which is more than 200 years old and considered one of the leading universities in Europe.
Top row (from left): Professor Craig Blewett, Professor Sandile Songca, Mr Abdulbaqi Badru, and bottom row: Professor Curtis Bonk and Dr Britta Zawada. The UKZN Teaching and Learning Office recently hosted the second edition of its virtual e-learning symposium titled: Imagining a Technology Enhanced Higher Education Future, which provided a platform for participants to present their teaching and learning solutions in the contested, ever-changing Higher Education landscape.
UKZN staff member, Ms Ntombizethu Gcaba graduates with a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration.
UKZN conference participants (top row - from left): Ms Nolutando Mbeje, Ms Sthabile Mtolo, Mr Nkosinathi Mncwabe, and Ms Phindile Mlaba. (Bottom row): Ms Buhle Lubuzo, Ms Mpho Motlana, Ms Simphiwe Khumalo and Ms Thandekile Khumalo.Staff from the Cancer and Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Unit (CIDERU) within the Multinational Lung Cancer Control Programme at UKZN participated in the 7th International African Palliative Care Conference in Uganda.
