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2018-06-21 00:00:00.0 | Category: Research news, Dept history, Corporate

Transforming and unsettling

Unisan Jane Carruthers has capped a distinguished academic career by receiving the 2018 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Environmental History for her critical contributions to the fields of environmental justice, national parks and preservation, and transnational environmental history.

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2018-06-12 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Research news

Information, research, and communities interrelated

Macdonald Rammala, an emerging researcher from Unisa’s Institute for Dispute Resolution in Africa (IDRA), in the College of Law, attended the Fourth International Conference on New Directions in Multidisciplinary Research and Practice, held from 12 to 13 May 2018 at the Hilton Hotel, London.

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2018-06-05 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Research news, Corporate

Ethics and integrity pay off

Unisa’s Dr Retha Visagie, Manager of Research Integrity in the Research Support Directorate, has just walked off with the DST/SARIMA Award for Professional Excellence in Research Management.

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2018-05-03 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Research news, Science, Student news, Corporate

Keeping Unisa’s research flag flying high!

Unisa wishes Bonisiwe Seshabela and Sebabatso Maifadi of CSET the best of luck at the FameLab SA National finals on 9 May.

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2018-04-26 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Research news, IDEAS, Corporate

Stepping on the (bio)gas

Congratulations to Ralph Muvhiiwa from IDEAS who will be doing his postdoctoral studies at Cranfield University in the UK from 1 May until 31 December 2018, supported by the Rutherford Fund Strategic Partner Grant.

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2018-04-23 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Corporate

Biogas is a winner at Unisa cook-off competition

“It was fast and safe, and worked like a stove, but quicker. The heat was not excessive but it was enough.” Young chefs from Elethu Themba Public School in Eikenhof near Lenasia are sold on the idea of converting their school kitchen to biogas.

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2018-04-18 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Alumni, Corporate

African children and capacity building at Unisa's heart

“Africa has a rich cultural heritage that serves as a resource to shape the lives of African children,” says Unisa’s Prof Hasina Ebrahim, joint holder of the UNESCO Chair in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development.

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2018-03-15 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Lead, Research news, Corporate

Unisa water tests reveal startling clues about health and lifestyles in SA

Traces of heroin, cocaine, statins, fibrins, and other drugs, both medicinal and recreational, are showing up in treated wastewater in Gauteng.

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2018-03-15 00:00:00.0 | Category: Research news

Tackling water scarcity innovatively

Unisa’s NanoWS research unit is actively pursuing strategic international collaborations while still developing and maintaining strong partnerships with southern African universities.

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