Empowerment of Women In Academia

Women In Academia: Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset and Leadership Skills, Guest Speaker: Dr Hilary Duckett, Director of the Senior Leader Degree Apprenticeship Programme, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Management, University of Exeter Business School. This workshop enables participants to apply entrepreneurial thinking and practices to leadership design, development, and implementation.

Wits In 60 Seconds

In this week’s episode, we dive into how Netflix is empowering Wits Film and TV students through the donation of state-of-the-art equipment. We learn about how Prof. Bavesh Kana and his team are improving the 100-year-old TB vaccine through gene editing. We find the age of the Taung Child fossil thanks to new research methods and explore the new precision medicine guidelines co-authored by Prof. Michèle Ramsay, which was published in Nature Medicine. Finally, we look into the Civic Leadership Programme that is preparing students to make a positive impact on society Read more at www.wits.ac.za/news.