Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim.UKZN’s Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim has been named one of five ‘exceptional laureates’ of the 2016 prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award in Africa and the Arab States for her ‘remarkable contribution to the prevention and treatment of HIV and associated infections, greatly improving the quality of life of women in Africa’.
Brother Clement Sithole (third right) with UKZN students and Dr Patricia Opondo (second left) and Dr Tulio de Oliveira (extreme right).
Research colleagues Professor Frank Tanser and Professor Till Bärnighausen.A UKZN researcher and his colleague from Harvard in the United States have been awarded a R32.5 million grant over a five-year period which will take their successful collaboration in cutting edge HIV treatment and prevention research into its second decade.
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From left: Dr Veena Singaram, Mr Vikar Singh, Dr Asad Naveed and Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim. The power of Medical students as change agents was debated on UKZN’s Medical campus after an enthralling testimony by the President of the Sierra Leone Medical Students’ Association (SLeMSA) and the co-ordinator of the country’s Kick Ebola out Campaign, Dr Asad Naveed.
Some of UKZN’s top researchers are from left: Professors Johannes van Staden, Steven Johnson, Colleen Downs and Deresh Ramjugernath.The list of UKZN’s Top 30 published researchers for 2014 is dominated by the College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science (CAES), with 19 of the prime slots going to researchers working in the College’s five Schools.
J083+0532, a spiral galaxy with a million-light-years large radio emitting jet-lobe structure. The upper panel shows contours of radio emission overplotted on the optical image from the Slone Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The lower left panel represents the false colour radio image while the lower right panel shows the SDSS optical image.
New Golden Key Society members (from left) Ms Thandeka Mkhwane, Ms Nonkululeko Nkosi; Ms Neliswa Dlamini and Mr Xolani Malindisa. .jpg)
Dr Myint Aung.UKZN PhD candidate, Senior Medical Manager and Consultant in Family Medicine at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital, Dr Myint Aung, is in Japan on a two-month research exchange at the University of Fukui’s Faculty of Medical Science.
Miss Nozuko Nguqu performing at the Durban Music School.
Award winners at the 2015 College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science Postgraduate Research Day.The College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science (CAES) hosted its Postgraduate Research Day on the Pietermaritzburg campus.
UKZN’s Dr Maheshvari Naidu (right) with Dr Barbara Boswell at the workshop in Botswana.Anthropologist in the School of Social Sciences in the College of Humanities, Dr Maheshvari Naidu, took up an invitation to attend a workshop at the University of Botswana organised by the African Gender Institute based at the University of Cape Town.
Dr Andile Khathi.Dr Andile Khathi (27) of Ntuzuma, who recently graduated with a PhD from UKZN’s School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, has been appointed as a Lecturer in the Human Physiology Discipline.
Ms Nikita Naicker.UKZN student, Ms Nikita Naicker (24), was placed second in the Poster Category after delivering two presentations of her research at the International Conference on Targeting Diabetes and Novel Therapeutics in Las Vegas in the United States.
Mr Justice Cassim Sardiwalla delivering his keynote address at the Family Mediation Conference.The latest developments in family mediation in South Africa were discussed at the recent Family Mediation Conference hosted by the College of Law and Management Studies Research Office in partnership with the Northwest University and the South African Association of Mediators (SAAM).
SCM celebrates diversity in style.UKZN’s School of Clinical Medicine (SCM) support staff celebrated Heritage Day the true South African way… with food, song and drink at a Heritage Day Lunch at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine in Durban.
Mr Fhumulani Andrew Liabara and his mother at Graduation.College of Health Sciences (CHS) Web Administrator Intern, Mr Fhumulani Andrew Liabara, graduated recently from the University of Venda in Limpopo with a BSc Honours in Computer Science degree.
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Dr Kaminee Maduray.A novel clinical study conducted by UKZN Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Kaminee Maduray, recorded significant differences in the placentas of new mothers who endured pre-eclamptic as opposed to normotensive pregnancies.
Izinsizakusebenza zezolimo ezisepulazini lase-UKZN eliseMgungundlovu i-Ukulinga Research Farm kuzokhangiswa ngazo ngelanga elihlelelwe i-Howard Davis Symposium.Click here for English version
I-UKZN izobamba isimpoziyamu yokuqala i-Ukulinga Howard Davis Memorial, okuwumcimbi omayelana nocwaningo kanye nokucobelelana ngolwazi ohlose ukukhangisa ngocwaningo kwezolimo eNyuvesi kusetshenziswa izinsizakusebenza ezisepulazini i-Ukulinga Research Farm eliseMgungundlovu.
Moot court finalists: Mr Tusani Phewa, Ms Priyanka Naidoo, Mr Mlungisi Mhlungu and Mr Daniel Basckin.
Woza Moya community.More than a year ago, a Paediatrician and Dermatologist at Duke University in the United States, Dr Neil Prose, and a UKZN Psychologist, Dr Thirusha Naidu, began a research project on the Woza Moya help centre in Hillcrest near Durban.
From left: Professor Dave Dargie; Brother Clement Sithole; Dr Patricia Opondo and Dr Tulio de Oliveira. UKZN’s Music Discipline recently hosted the International Council for Traditional Musics (ICTM) African Music Symposium which brought together academics, artists and documentary film makers with an interest in Africa and the diaspora.
Robust discussions were captured on Teaching & Learning TV. 
Dr Douglas Wilson.The herb Sutherlandia frutescens has no impact on markers of HIV disease progression, according to a novel study conducted by researchers from UKZN, the University of Western Cape and the University of Missouri in the United States.
Panelists at a public lecture held at UKZN and delivered by the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Co-operation, Mr Luwellyn Landers.
SAMSA-UKZN member with guest speakers at the Maternal Health and Access to Safe and Legal Abortion workshop.
UKZN’s Professor Kriben Pillay and international author, Mr Steven Harrison.International author and speaker, Mr Steven Harrison, noted for his challenging books and talks that deconstruct accepted notions of relationship, identity and community, was a guest speaker and presenter at UKZN.
Mrs Verusia Chetty and Mr Saul Cobbing.Two UKZN Physiotherapy Lecturers presented their ongoing doctoral research studies at the 12th International AIDSImpact Conference in Amsterdam.
Panelists at UKZN’s discussion on the preservation of heritage in celebration of Arbor Month. The DST-NRF Centre in Indigenous Knowledge Systems (CIKS) at UKZN hosted a panel discussion on IKS and the protection and preservation of biodiversity and heritage in South Africa.
Musicians Dan Wilson and Fiona Tozer. 
UKZN dance winners at eThekwini Championship 2015.
Edgewood students who attended the Information session by future employers.
