Discover UKZN Emeritus Professor Poobhalan Pillay of the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (SMSCS) has written an e-book, 1000 Mathematics Olympiad Problems, to help pupils from Grade 7 to Grade 12 improve their mathematics skills. Compiled for the South African Mathematics Foundation (SAMF), …
Professors Andrew Green and Andrew Cooper of the Discipline of Geological Sciences at UKZN are among the authors of a paper published in Nature Climate Change that refutes recent suggestions that half the world’s sandy beaches could become extinct by the end of the 21st century. …
Mr Miguel Castañeda-Zárate, a Mexican TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences) funded PhD candidate in the School of Life Sciences (SLS), has published results from his research in Current Biology, a journal with an impact factor of 9.601. In the paper, …
Since a child, Dr Cormac Price has been fascinated by reptiles and amphibians even though he was born and raised in Ireland which has no snakes – ‘just one native lizard, one introduced range-restricted legless lizard species, one frog, one …
Ms Gugulethu Tshabalala, an intern project manager at the Duzi-uMngeni Conservation Trust (DUCT) in Pietermaritzburg, graduated from UKZN with a Master’s degree in Environmental Science for research conducted at Fountainhill Estate (FHE) near Wartburg, which explored the impact of land use practices on sediment …
Dr Zelalem Getahun Dessie, who was awarded a PhD degree in Statistics during the UKZN Spring Graduation virtual ceremony, was described as a ‘success story’. The description was made by the Dean and Head of the School of Mathematics, Statistics …
UKZN tied for #332 in the world’s top universities in the 2021 US News & World Report’s Best Global Universities rankings released earlier this week. The Best Global Universities rankings measure academic research performance, such as highly cited research papers, …
The virtual Poetry Africa International Festival opened at UKZN with a provocative piece by performance poet and playwright Koleka Putuma. Poetry Africa is the first festival to debut Putuma’s latest project: Collective Amnesia [The Audio Experience] to an audience. The …
Honorary lecturer at UKZN and scientist at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) Dr Sinaye Ngcapu has been awarded the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant. The award will fund a five-year …