Professor Rozena Maart. Click here for isiZulu version
Academic within the College of Humanities Professor Rozena Maart has won the 2021 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to literature and philosophy, awarded by the internationally renowned Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA).
A1 rated scientist, Professor Steve Johnson.Click here for isiZulu version
UKZN’s Professor Steve Johnson has obtained an A1 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF).
Team members presenting their video address at the awards ceremony. From left: Dr Brett van Niekerk, Dr Trishana Ramluckan, and Ms Noelle van der Waag-Cowling.Click here for isiZulu version
A joint UKZN and Stellenbosch University (SUN) team took first place in the Global Cyber Challenge 2.0 in the Strategy and Policy track.
Miss Precious Sinethemba Zondi.Alumnus Miss Precious Sinethemba Zondi (27) was a finalist in the Accenture Rising Star Awards. An account manager at an advertising agency, she was nominated for her outstanding skills in Media and Marketing/Advertising.
Mr Thabang Mdhluli with his final-year project, a pressure vessel for a water rocket demonstration kit.UKZN’s Aerospace Systems Research Group (ASReG) in the School of Engineering is developing the talent of the next generation of rocket scientists to drive South Africa’s space industry forward.
Mr Vulinhlanhla Mchunu.UKZN’s Aerospace Systems Research Group (ASReG) in the School of Engineering is developing the talent of the next generation of rocket scientists to propel South Africa’s space industry forward, and the young engineers moving through its ranks are making their own dreams, and those of South Africa’s burgeoning space engineering industry, a reality through innovative research, hard work, and a passion for the skies.
Panellists at the webinar (clockwise from top left): Mr Andrew Gray, Professor Colleen Aldous and Dr Warren Parker.
This year, the Fountainhill Estate Symposium is taking place as a series of online seminars.Fountainhill Estate (FHE), a conservation and agriculture enterprise in KwaZulu-Natal that facilitates environmental and agricultural research in the uMngeni catchment by partnering with many organisations, including UKZN has moved its annual research symposium online for a series of seminars.
High achiever, Mr Mohamed Hoosen Suleman.Click here for isiZulu version
Third-year Medical student at UKZN, Mr Mohamed Hoosen Suleman, has been selected by the Golden Key International Honour Society to serve as President of the UKZN Medical School Chapter.
Ms Zamile Nduli.
Mr Ugendran Odayar.
Dr Dave Ehlers Smith with a rehabilitated and tagged yellow-billed kite.UKZN’s Centre for Functional Biodiversity, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife and the Centre for Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) have teamed up for a scientific mercy mission.
Professor Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi (left) and Professor Tilahun Seyoum Workneh presented at the Fountainhill Estate online seminar on the topic of “Food”.At the second of four online seminars hosted by Fountainhill Estate (FHE), UKZN, the Institute of Natural Resources (INR) and the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), two researchers from UKZN contributed their expertise to the topic of food as part of the seminar series’ foray into the fundamentals of the Food-Water-Energy (WEF) nexus and biodiversity.
Some of the Writing Place tutors that facilitated the academic writing workshop. From left: Mr Patrick Nyamruze, Mr Lindani Maphumulo, Mrs Nombuso Gabela, Dr Thomas Gumbo and Dr Stephen Phiri.
