With the launch of the Big Data for Science and Society (BDSS) project, UKZN’s Big Data and Informatics’ Research Flagship plans to transform research by creating scientific and socio-economic impacts. UKZN’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research, Professor Deresh Ramjugernath said: ‘We …
UKZN’s Developing Research Innovation, Localisation and Leadership in South Africa (DRILL) programme recently hosted a number of research seminars. DRILL held its first ever mental health symposium Voices from the Head: Brain Science and Changing Futures, which took place recently at …
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Professor Moses Chimbari. UKZN College of Health Sciences’ Dean of Research, Professor Moses Chimbari has been appointed as a co-deputy director of the Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) project, a £7million high impact and stakeholder-driven project. The project is …

Working together for the good of KwaZulu-Natal athletes (from left) Mr Brendon Goodenough, Ms Masisy Mbanjwe, Ms Sindy Shabalala, Dr Takshita Sookan, Dr Rowena Naidoo and Ms Bronwyn Sheppard. Two UKZN Masters students, Ms Masisy Mbanjwe and Ms Sindy Shabalala, …

Looks like, feels like, smells like! Dr Courtney Marneweck taking rhino dung odour samples as part of her PhD research. Innovative research – which made international headlines – on how white rhinoceroses utilise olfactory communication, transmitting key information via the …
