Mr Osman Ghoor, FISU World University Combat Games bronze medal holder.Click here for isiZulu version
Mr Osman Ghoor, a Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting student, recently competed in the FISU (International University Sports Federation) World University Combat Games held in Samsun, Turkey.
Gift of the Givers and Care Sisters Network donates Optometry kits to UKZN’s Optometry Discipline.The Gift of the Givers Foundation, in partnership with the Caring Sisters Network (CSN), have donated 25 Optometry kits valued at R30 000 each to the Optometry Discipline to loan out to students who cannot afford to buy their own.
Professor Genene Tessema Mola.Opportunities and Challenges of Thin-Film Polymer Solar Cells (TFPSC) in Contributing Towards the Realisation of Cheap Renewable Energy was the topic of an inaugural lecture presented by UKZN Physicist, Professor Genene Tessema Mola.
Professor Johnson Lin.Click here for isiZulu version
UKZN’s Professor Johnson Lin is fascinated with the little things. As a microbiologist, his main focus of research is on environmental microbiology and bioremediation, and he used the occasion of his inaugural lecture to share his insights into this area.
From left: Dr Danielle Roberts, Professor Delia North, Ms Nombuso Zondo (UKZN); Mr Andre Zitzke (SAS); Professor Albert Modi (UKZN); Professor Christine Franklin (University of Georgia, American Statistical Association Ambassador); Mr Lethani Ndwandwe, Professor James Allison (NWU); Dr Julia Keddie, Dr Humphrey Brydon, and Professor Renette Blignaut (UWC).‘UKZN is very well respected nationally and internationally with regard to providing cutting-edge training for the data age!’ These are the words of UKZN Statistician and former Dean and Head of the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Professor Delia North, who is passionate about upskilling young South Africans. Data analytics in particular is her thing.
Third-year and final-year students who participated in the Court Shadowing Programme.
From left: SAEF lecturers Mr Mohamed Suleman, Dr Jessica Goebel and Dr Michelle Hatch, and (right) Grade 8 students preparing for Kids MBA pitches.
Professor David Spurrett speaks about Hostile Scaffolding at the University of Wollongong.Click here for isiZulu version
Professor David Spurrett, academic within the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics (SRPC), recently spent a month as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.
From left: Ms Samukelisiwe Ndlovu (SASL winner), Dr Ashley Subbiah (Disability Unit), and Mr Khumbulani Mngadi, Director (Acting): ULPDO.Click here for isiZulu version
The month of September saw South Africans commemorate Heritage Month and Deaf Awareness Month. The University Language Planning and Development Office (ULPDO) used this opportunity to raise awareness for South African Sign Language under the theme: SASL Matters: Towards an Inclusive and Mindful Society.
UKZN academic, Professor Vivian Ojong.Click here for isiZulu version
Dean and Head of the School of Social Sciences, Professor Vivian Ojong delivered her virtual inaugural lecture titled: “Territories in Flow and Flux”: Anthropological Knowledge and Virtual Communities".
UKZN staff and students walk for better mental health at Durban’s North Beach.Hosted by the KwaZulu-Natal Mental Health Advocacy Group in partnership with civil society organisations such as the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG), the annual Mental Health Walk was held recently on Durban’s North Beach and attracted hundreds of participants including UKZN staff and students.
Poet, Mr Sandile Ngidi delivers the 8th annual Mafika Gwala Memorial Lecture.The Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) within the College of Humanities recently hosted the 2022 Mafika Gwala Memorial Lecture. The lecture was launched in 2015 as a collaboration between the College of Humanities, South African History Online (SAHO), and the National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS).
Professor Betty C Mubangizi (left) and Dr Londeka Ngubane.A multidisciplinary team implementing a project on the Interplay Among Vulnerabilities, Livelihoods, and Institutional Dynamics in the Context of COVID-19 recently presented their work at the First Disaster and Risk Management Conference at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The conference took place from 1 to 4 October 2022.
Mr Alexander Samuels.
The College of Law and Management Studies hosted an induction workshop for Class Representatives.
