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09 February 2010

The Origins Centre invites you to a public lecture on The Golden Crown of Johannesburg: a historical exposé of the mining industry and the city’s development by Gerhard Freiherr von Ketelhodt.

15 February 2010 - 16 February 2010

The Wits School of Molecular and Cell Biology has invited a renowned team of experts in Innate Immunity from France, Japan and the United Kingdom to a colloquium to discuss the global threat of emerging and re-emerging diseases

22 February 2010

Prof Bheki Sibiya, Director and Head of Wits Business School, cordially invites you to a discussion on the Impact of the Current Crisis on Development Thinking with Prof. John Williamson, Creator of the Washington Consensus. The discussion will focus on the impact of the crisis on thoughts about how to promote development.

News

Fun and games for students during O-week

05 February 2010

It was a week filled with fun and games for new students at Wits when the annual Orientation Week kicked off on 25 January 2010.

Call for entries: Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism

03 February 2010

Wits University’s Investigative Journalism Workshop, in conjunction with the Valley Trust, is calling for entries for South Africa’s biggest journalism award, the Taco Kuiper Award.

Wits Journalism establishes exchange programme with Columbia University

03 February 2010

The Wits Department of Journalism and the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University announce a new dual-degree programme, beginning in August 2010, which will allow students to study journalism in both New York and Johannesburg and receive degrees from both institutions.

Rotavirus vaccine significantly reduces severe diarrhoea by 61.2 % in African infants

03 February 2010

For the first time ever, studies in South Africa, Malawi and Mexico, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrate a reduction in diarrhoeal disease deaths following rotavirus vaccine introduction in Mexico and vaccine efficacy amongst impoverished populations in South Africa and Malawi.

Wits professor wins prestigious AU scientific award

03 February 2010

Wits Professor Diane Hildebrandt, Co-Director of the Centre of Material and Process Synthesis, (COMPS) in the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering is one of two South African winners of the 2009 African Union Scientific Awards, who received an award in the science, technology and innovation category from President Jacob Zuma at the African Union Summit awards ceremony held on Sunday, 31 January 2010, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.