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Bacteria and plants could help clean up toxic waste from gold mines
Acid mine drainage, toxic water spilling from mines, ruins the environment and affects people’s health. Plants and bacteria could help clean it up.
7 August 2024
Memoir of a decade in African genomics research
A book commemorating 10 years of the AWI-Gen project shares stories of those who researched how genetics, environment, and lifestyle affect health in Africa.
5 August 2024
Dinosaurs help us understand the natural world today
Wits palaeontologists visit SAHETI School to provide a fossil learning opportunity for children through a mini dinosaur show.
2 August 2024
Bacteria and plants could help clean up toxic waste from gold mines
Acid mine drainage, toxic water spilling from mines, ruins the environment and affects people’s health. Plants and bacteria could help clean it up.
7 August 2024
Memoir of a decade in African genomics research
A book commemorating 10 years of the AWI-Gen project shares stories of those who researched how genetics, environment, and lifestyle affect health in Africa.
5 August 2024
Dinosaurs help us understand the natural world today
Wits palaeontologists visit SAHETI School to provide a fossil learning opportunity for children through a mini dinosaur show.
2 August 2024
Pathfinder to illuminate the path for more women
A woman of many firsts, Prof. Nthabiseng Audrey Ogude has been appointed CEO of the Female Academic Leaders Fellowship programme. Ogude is a groundbreaker who has more than 30 years’ experience in higher education. The Analytical Chemist and Science Educator took her seat on 1 June 2024 and brings critical skills into the position having climbed to the highest echelons of academia – both as an educator and a leader. Launched in 2021, the Female Academic Leaders Fellowship (FALF) programme advocates and provides financial support and mentorship to African and mixed-race (coloured) South African women.
Read MoreGauteng learners are recognised for their innovative solutions to the Joburg gas explosion through the Wits Integrated Experience. Wits hosts the Inter-Faculty Research Symposium and a lecture on 'Solar Socialism: Wind, Sunlight and the paradox of abundance” by Prof. David McDermott. Discover how climate change is projected to increase wildfire risks in southern Africa and learn about the discovery of an ancient lake in Lesotho. Finally, find out more about Wits University’s Eleni Flack-Davison and her team’s achievement at the 8th World Conference on Research Integrity. Read the full stories at www.wits.ac.za.
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