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Building Africa’s AI initiative

Careers Gauteng Latest news University of the Witwatersrand January 11, 2021

Considerations behind the largest and most complex undertaking of its kind in Africa’s history. In collaboration with academia, Cirrus is a private sector led initiative bringing together academia and industry for the establishment of a world class artificial intelligence (AI) research and application capability for Africa. Although launched in 2019, work on... Read more

Engineering student’s book wins award

Achievers Gauteng Latest news University of the Witwatersrand August 14, 2020

Wits student, Musawenkosi Nyati’s has published an award-winning book, Mobile App Development. Musawenkosi Nyati, a second year civil engineering student received the recognition at the 2020 AfriCAN Authors Awards, which took place on 31 July 2020. The tech-savvy student says he published the book after receiving numerous questions from people... Read more

WITS develops a therapeutic for aggressive Breast Cancer

Achievers Gauteng Latest news University of the Witwatersrand July 16, 2020

Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) have developed a potential treatment for Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), a particularly aggressive cancer which mostly affects women of colour under the age of 50. Currently, treatment of breast cancer includes using drugs which selectively target hormone receptors, those which... Read more

Five finalists announced in the ‘Aspire, Higher’ Wits student competition

Achievers Gauteng Latest news University of the Witwatersrand July 15, 2020

Wits Business School (WBS), Reckitt Benckiser (RB) and its Durex brand, Gilead, and UNAIDS are pleased to announce the five finalists in the inaugural “Aspire, Higher” sexual health innovation competition for students. The three winners will be chosen on 16 July 2020. “Aspire, Higher” was created to tackle the... Read more

Study on the state of magma in crustal reservoirs

Gauteng Latest news Research University of the Witwatersrand June 11, 2020

The study challenges a recently-emerged paradigm that magma chambers are huge masses of crystals with just a very small amount of melt. Wits PhD student, Willem Kruger’s study on the state of magma within plutonic magmatic systems in the Earth’s crust has been published in the high impact journal, Nature Communications. ... Read more

Wits students start-up gathers momentum

Gauteng University of the Witwatersrand May 30, 2020

Things are starting to gather momentum for three aspiring entrepreneurs from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). Within four months of enlisting the help of Wits Commercial Enterprise, the trio has garnered the interest of an American consulting firm, Mutualism, and is working on securing funds for their beta... Read more

“Little Foot” skull reveals how this human ancestor lived

Gauteng Latest news Research University of the Witwatersrand March 18, 2020

Micro-CT scanning of “Little Foot” skull reveals new aspects of the life of this more than 3-million year-old-human ancestor. “The morphology of the first cervical vertebra, or atlas, reflects multiple aspects of an organism’s life,” says Beaudet, the lead author of the study. “In particular, the nearly complete atlas... Read more

First years share their hopes as they start university

Gauteng University of the Witwatersrand February 6, 2020

University can be an enthralling experience for high school leavers as they embark on their new academic journey, which will bring them a step closer to realising their dreams. Classes have commenced at Wits University following a successful Orientation Week at Wits, which ran from 26 to 31 January... Read more

Healthy and motivated staff bring success

Gauteng University of the Witwatersrand September 11, 2019

Motivated and happy staff are the force behind great universities says Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Adam Habib. “Great universities around the world are not hard to build, what you require is great staff, great students and you need to give them some resources for them to do their... Read more

Prof Emerita Hilary Janks: A life invested in language and literacy education

Achievers University of the Witwatersrand February 25, 2019

Multi-award winning Education Professor Emerita, Hilary Janks, reflects on language and power, and offers insight into the poor literacy levels in South Africa. Janks, has spent nearly 40 years teaching those who have the most impact on society – teachers. Her work in the field of language, literacy and... Read more