Print a 200-million-year-old dinosaur fossil in your own home
ResearchUniversity of the Witwatersrand January 18, 2018
CT-scan study of Wits PHD student makes it possible to 3D print the skull of the dinosaur species Massospondylus that roamed South Africa 200 million years ago. The digital reconstruction of the skull of a 200-million-year-old South African dinosaur, Massospondylus, has made it possible for researchers to make 3D prints... Read more
UJ researchers make interesting discovery in Hypatia stone
Must-ReadResearchUniversity of Johannesburg January 15, 2018
Researchers at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) have found exotic micro-mineral compounds in the ‘Hypatia’ stone that are not known to occur on Earth, elsewhere in the solar system or in known meteorites or comets. Professor Jan Kramers and Dr Georgy Belyanin from the UJ PPM Research Centre at... Read more
Finding big data solutions through teaching and learning
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town January 12, 2018
As a partner in the African Research Cloud (ARC) and the Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy (IDIA), UCT is home to some powerful computing facilities. These facilities, which allow researchers to work with enormous sets of data, are helping us to prepare for the era of big-data science. But... Read more
Preparing for the SKA data
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town January 8, 2018
The world is wholly underprepared for the big-data challenges presented by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – the largest radio telescope ever built. This is because we have never seen data volumes on this scale before. By the time the SKA comes online in 2020, the scientific community needs... Read more
Lee Berger named SA’s ‘most visible’ scientist
AchieversMust-ReadUniversity of the Witwatersrand January 8, 2018
Wits palaeoanthropologist tops 25 300 others in a new study on highly visible scientists. Renowned for the discovery of two species of human ancestors, Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, Professor Lee Berger from the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University has been identified as the most ‘publicly visible scientist’... Read more
At the age of nine, he told Archbishop Desmond Tutu that he planned to study law. Now Dr Alistair Price has been awarded a prestigious and extremely rare National Research Foundation P rating for his ongoing research on intersections between private law, public law and human rights. This rating... Read more
Caption: Peter Häussler (Department of Social Development) is one of 112 PhD candidates who will graduate in the Memorial Hall on 20 December. Graduand Peter Häussler’s professional journey in Africa and his PhD thesis on Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere provide insights on leadership in Africa – and lessons... Read more
Statistics workshop enhances capacity in Biostatistics
CareersUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal January 4, 2018
The Discipline of Statistics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (SMSCS) hosted a three-day Advanced Multilevel Modelling in Biostatistics workshop on the Pietermaritzburg campus. The aim was to enhance capacity in this area of Biostatistics which is the development of methods and theory and an application of statistics in biology,... Read more
CGS Summer School opens minds and explores new directions
Latest newsUniversity of South Africa January 3, 2018
“Listen, absorb, participate, contribute, go from here inspired with new ideas and a broader sense of different academic disciplines,” was the call made to master’s and doctoral students by Prof Michelle Havenga, Executive Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, during her opening address at the Fifth Interdisciplinary Postgraduate... Read more
Negotiating learning and identity
Latest newsUniversity of Cape Town January 2, 2018
The lived experiences of working-class and rural black students are the subject of a new book edited by Dr Bongi Bangeni and Associate Professor Rochelle Kapp, titled Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education: Access, Persistence and Retention (Bloomsbury). “My teachers told me that I was not going to... Read more
