Postdoctoral researcher at UKZN’s Centre for Quantum Technology Dr Uriri Solomon was a member of the winning team at the recent Qiskit Hackathon Global – a 24-hour virtual experience. Solomon joined forces with teammates from the United States, Tunisia and …
The Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) in the College of Humanities will host the virtual Poetry Africa International Festival from 12 to 17 October 2020. For the 24th year in a row, the Poetry Africa festival in Durban sets the stage …
– By Professor Nombulelo Magula Fear, stigma and poverty remain the fiercest enemies in our fight against COVID-19. Yet, when considered within the South African context, these are hardly new phenomena. Our years of experience in dealing with the HIV …
Ms Lindelwe Mabika, who completed a Biological Sciences Honours degree in 2019, has received the JD Scott Award for the best student in Grassland Science after conducting research on the use of grass as a biocontrol agent for a plant …
The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has for the first time ever been ranked among the top 400 best performing universities in the world according to the latest 2020/2021 Times Higher Education (THE) rankings. UKZN was placed in the 351-400 band, …
Bachelor of Optometry alumna, Ms Duduzile Sibisi, owns two optometry practices at the tender age of 25… and plans to open more! Sibisi, who grew up in the rural KwaZulu-Natal town of Dannhauser, completed her studies on the Westville campus …
The youngest Associate Professor at UKZN’s College of Health Sciences, Professor Tricia Naicker, has been awarded the 2020 Raikes Medal by the South African Chemical Institute. The medal acknowledges a member of the Institute, under the age of 40, whose original …
UKZN’s School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences (SAEES) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Agriculture Sector Education Training Authority (AgriSETA), enabling collaboration in research within the authority’s focus areas and in training that will boost the …
PhD candidate in Biostatistics, Mr Innocent B Mboya has been invited on to a taskforce for COVID-19 Pandemic Modelling in Africa. Invited by the African Union Scientific Technical Research Commission through the African Scientific Research and Innovation Council (ASRIC), the Applied Biostatistician and assistant …
Award-winning Durban photographer Val Adamson, who has photographed the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience since it began in 1998, shares her work in an online exhibition titled: 21 years of JOMBA! through the lens. The exhibition will run on the festival …