.As South Africa and the rest of the world continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that there is an urgent need to establish programmes of increased social support to protect members of the UKZN community that come from poor and vulnerable households.
UKZN academic, Professor Msizi Mkhize.Click here for isiZulu version
School of Accounting, Economics and Finance academic, Professor Msizi Mkhize and his son, Commerce master’s student, Mr Siphesihle Mkhize are using Facebook to share their Mathematics study material and solutions with the country’s Grade 12 pupils during the COVID-19 national lockdown.
Fourth-year Medical student and President of UKZN SAMSA, Ms Tivana Chellan.Click here for isiZulu version
Medical students who are members of the South African Medical Students Association (SAMSA) UKZN chapter initiated an action plan in response to COVID-19 at the onset of the nationwide lockdown.
Lead researcher, Professor Priscilla Reddy from the HSRC.
Professors Francesco Petruccione (left) and Tulio de Oliveira.Pro Vice-Chancellor of Big Data and Informatics and South African Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing and Communication at UKZN, Professor Francesco Petruccione recently hosted a breakfast seminar titled COVID-19 Genomics and Epidemiology.
Digital comic Don’t Panic.Click here for isiZulu version
PhD student in the School of Arts, Mr Damien Tomaselli together with some Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) staff members are part of a digital comic called Don’t Panic.
UKZN Press has published Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place by Professor Ashwin Desai.
Professor Francesco Petruccione, Ms Amira Abbas, and FNB’s Dr Mark Nasila.Professor Francesco Petruccione, the South African Research Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC), founder of UKZN’s Centre for Quantum Technology and Pro Vice-Chancellor for the University’s Big Data and Informatics Research Flagship, along with MSc candidate, Ms Amira Abbas, recently spoke to ITWeb about a collaboration between UKZN and First National Bank (FNB) through which the bank is exploring the use of quantum computing for its products and services.
UKZN alumnus, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman.The Gift of the Givers, which was founded by UKZN alumnus, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, will this week provide 100 state hospitals with personal protective equipment (PPE) to assist in the fight against COVID-19.
The Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems (SHEFS) programme hosted its bi-annual meeting via virtual conference, linking participants in three countries. On 30 and 31 March, the Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems (SHEFS) programme hosted its bi-annual meeting via virtual conference, linking 73 participants from partner institutions - including UKZN - based in South Africa, the United Kingdom and India.
UKZN Humanities academic, Dr Mariam Seedat-Khan.Clinical Sociologist in the School of Social Sciences, Dr Mariam Seedat-Khan has created an online platform to help teachers and parents find digital resources and learning tools for their learners and children to use during the lockdown.
Professor Suna Kassier has put together dietary advice that will help combat stress related to the COVID-19 national lockdown. Click here for isiZulu version
Professor Suna Kassier from Dietetics and Human Nutrition at UKZN has chipped in with advice for staff, students and the general public to maintain healthy consumption habits while dealing with added stress under the COVID-19 lockdown.
Dr Rituparno Goswami and on the right is an artist’s impression of the black hole collision that produced gravitational waves.Professor Rituparno Goswami, associate Professor and academic leader of Research in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (SMSCS) and a member of the Astrophysics and Cosmology Research Unit, was featured in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review magazine for research conducted with Professor George Ellis of the University of Cape Town on the generation of gravitational waves.
Professor Francesco Petruccione, National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Science Director.Professor Francesco Petruccione, the South African Research Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC) and founder of UKZN’s Centre for Quantum Technology, has been appointed the interim Director of the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Science (NITheCS) as of the first of April.
UKZN staff and students at the Southern African Plant Breeding Symposium.A number of Plant Breeding staff and students from UKZN attended and presented at the 13th Southern African Plant Breeding Symposium, held at the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Campus in March, with PhD candidate, Ms Boluwatife OlaOlorun winning an award for the best poster presentation.
