2021-03-26 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Research news, Corporate
International leadership roles for Dr Daisy Selematsela
The Executive Director of the Unisa Library and Information Services has been nominated to serve as a member of the South African Committee on Data for Science and Technology for a three-year term running until January 2023. She has also been re-elected on the Board of ORCID and newly elected on Research4Life.
2021-03-24 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Research news, Corporate
Transformation at the core of maintaining Unisa as an African university
Making an African university in the service of humanity: Professor Mandla Makhanya's speeches was launched on 19 March 2021. The former VC said he had been committed to building a new DNA in a university that would actually bring about what would be viewed as a culture of academic excellence and service to stakeholders.
2021-03-24 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Life and Consumer Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Chemistry, Featured, Research news, IDAES, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Corporate
Collaboration key to combat scourge of TB
Two Unisa colleges have joined forces to tackle the challenge of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. The focus of the research is the chemical design and synthesis of new TB drugs and biological investigation into several medicinal plants as a cradle of novel TB drug leads.
#ItsTimetoEndTB #WorldTBDay
2021-03-23 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Research news, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Celebrating water one drink at a time!
Unisa's Dr Felix Donkor says that this year's celebration of World Water Day is unique as 2021 intersects with the final decade of action to deliver the SDGs as well as global efforts towards sustainable recovery from the coronavirus crisis.
2021-03-18 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Unisa’s renowned scholar in LGBTIQ earns prestigious nomination
Professor Azwihangwisi Helen Mavhandu-Mudzusi, Head of Graduate Studies and Research in the College of Human Sciences, is a finalist in the category of Established Researcher in the HSRC-USAf 2020 Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities for her outstanding contribution to social sciences
2021-03-17 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Nominated for contributing positively to research
Unisa's Dr Mahlogonolo Thobane of the Department of Criminology and Security Science says being nominated for the HSRC-USAf 2020 Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities is something she does not underestimate.
2021-03-15 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept psychology, Corporate
Unisa Chair of Department humbled by nomination
Dr Fortunate Silinda, a research psychologist in the Department of Psychology, has been nominated as an emerging researcher for the HSRC-USAf 2020 Medal for Social Sciences and Humanities.
2021-03-11 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Unisan elected as first black president of CRIMSA
Dr Mahlogonolo Thobane, a senior lecturer in the College of Law, will serve a three-year term at the head of the Criminological Society of South Africa, a locally and internationally recognised, inter-disciplinary professional society, promoting theoretical and applied criminology and related disciplines in Africa and further afield.
2021-03-09 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Dr Zweli Mkhize appoints Unisan to National Health Research Council
Melodie Labuschaigne, Professor in the Department of Jurisprudence in the College of Law, will serve as the legal member of the NHREC, a statutory body whose functions are primarily to provide direction on ethical issues relating to health and to develop guidelines for conducting research involving humans and animals.