2021-01-19 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, Corporate
How pedal power could solve Tshwane's traffic jams
A calmer, congestion-free CBD is what Unisa BSc student Nkamogeleng Matloga has in mind for the City of Tshwane, and she intends to achieve this with an innovative new bicycle rental solution.
2021-01-15 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Featured, Corporate
Pertunia sets out to reclaim the land – from waste
Education student Pertunia Ndou's food waste management innovation found favour at the Tshwane Inter-University Innovation Challenge in November 2020.
2021-01-14 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Featured, Corporate
Why Kgalabi's portable washbasin idea is making a splash
A portable, self-assembled washbasin designed by a Unisa computer science student for the City of Tshwane's healthcare workers could be just what the doctor ordered.
2020-12-21 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Corporate
The power of polemics—presenting and publishing as a non-academic
Makabongwe Khanyile, Deputy Director of Marketing at Unisa, writes that his research interests straddle across higher education, stakeholder management, marketing, leadership, and governance.
2020-12-21 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, Corporate
Striving to find solutions in difficult times
Mahmood Akbari, a PhD student and fellow in the UNESCO-Unisa Africa Chair in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology, has advice to share with other postgraduate students who are keen on retaining their equilibrium, despite the current crisis
2020-12-17 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate
Considering the innovation chasm
ISPIM Connects Global 2020 was a 24-hour virtual event bringing together researchers, managers, business, and global thought leaders. The NSTF represented South Africa, with Unisans Professor Lindiwe Zungu and Dr Vhahangwele Masindi adding value to the discussion panel.
2020-12-16 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Dept of Operations Management, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate
Unisa innovator wins another big award
Professor Marcia Mkansi, from the Department of Operations Management in the College of Economic and Management Sciences, claimed first prize in the medical category at this year’s Innovation Hub competition for the Gauteng Accelerator Programme.
2020-12-14 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Corporate
Oil refinery blast is one more reason SA should take industrial risks seriously
The country needs to move away from a reliance on dirty industries, particularly fossil fuels. This will require introducing renewable energy industries that are clean, efficient, and safer for people and the environment, writes Professor Llewellyn Leonard of Unisa’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences in The Conversation.
2020-12-11 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Law, Corporate
Unisa conservation crime researcher named in world’s top 10
Professor Friedo Herbig from the Department of Criminology and Security Science knew he had a respectable research track record in his field but he had no idea just how world-class it actually was until he discovered he was listed as the eighth most-published wildlife crime scholar globally