Nobel Symposium physicists interact with learners from Phembisizwe High School and Mayville Secondary School.
Learning in your language prioritised at the BAQONDE Summer School.
Professors Salim Washington and Mogens Hogh Jensen (left) explore the meeting point of jazz and physics. Also pictured is Umlazi jazz impresario and left-hand guitarist, Mr Bheki Khoza.Can physics meet jazz? Yes, say the experts, in the principle of complementarity - on the one hand both are bound to rules, on the other both are free. By pushing the boundaries of established rules, deviating from them and improvising, the physicists and jazz aficionados agreed that both disciplines have burst through into novel paradigms to create something new.
Ms Maryam Mahomed, SAMSA national President.Click here for isiZulu version
Ms Maryam Mahomed, third-year Medical student, has been appointed as the President of the South African Medical Students Association (SAMSA), nationally.
Ms Suhayfa Bhamjee.
Ms Sibusisiwe Nxongo, guest speaker at the Dr Killie Campbell annual lecture.
Global Classroom webinar participants.Professor Mariam Seedat-Khan, a clinical sociologist, and Dr Jayanathan Govender from the School of Social Sciences, recently hosted a virtual Global Classroom for students in collaboration with international partners as well as Taylor University (Malaysia) and Toyo University (Japan) to examine social issues and clinical interventions intersecting culture, education barriers, Deaf and hearing communities and inclusion and diversity.
Highlights from the School Uniform Donation Drive in KwaMashu spearheaded by UKZN alumnus, Mr Scelo Manyoni.Click here for isiZulu version
UKZN alumnus, Mr Scelo Manyoni recently donated full uniforms to Nkulisabantu Primary School, Maqadini Primary School, and his alma mater Isibonelo High School - all in KwaMashu.
From left: Ms Sintija Leigute, Professor Angela James, Ms Bongekile Bhengu, and Professor Linda Pavitola.UKZN’s School of Education recently hosted two staff members from Liepaja University in Latvia: Professor Linda Pavitola, Faculty of Pedagogy and Social Work Dean, and Ms Sintija Leigute, International Relations Senior Specialist.
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UKZN Alumni Relations staff members and alumni at the North and South Coast lunches.Click here for isiZulu version
UKZN’s series of alumni lunch “get-togethers”, which have been incredibly successful and popular, began in the eThekwini area and culminated in two successful events in the KwaZulu-Natal coastal districts of Pennington and Ballito during the month of October.
Eighth annual RINGS Conference attendees.UKZN hosted the eighth annual International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies (RINGS) Conference. Themed: Decolonising Feminisms, the three-day hybrid event was organised by Professor Deevia Bhana RINGS Co-chair and South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality in the School of Education.
Award recipients, Mr Andile Gumede (left) and Ms Phakamile Mazibuko (right) with UTLO’s Mr Abdulbaqi Badru.Two students from the School of Education, Ms Phakamile Mazibuko and Mr Andile Gumede, were recently awarded the 2022 UKZN Student Spotlight Award which recognises academically excelling students who also actively participated in University and community outreach programmes during the online learning period.
Final-year Audiology students.Click here for isiZulu version
Final-year Audiology students hosted their annual Deaf Awareness Month campaign at Fulton School for the Deaf, in Gillitts, Durban.
Ms Nonkululeko Zondo who has contributed to several strategic documents, provincially and nationally. PhD student in Development Studies, Ms Nonkululeko Zondo recently presented her research at the 10th Annual Sustainable Development in the Minerals Industry (SDIMI) Conference held in Africa for the first time in Windhoek, Namibia.
Media students at East Coast Radio.Click here for isiZulu version
UKZN and East Coast Radio (ECR) came together to celebrate postgraduate Media students who were awarded bursaries and to acknowledge the radio station’s generous donations and contributions.
