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Ethics Alive 2010

Conference

15 March 2010 - 19 March 2010

The Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, along with the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics invites you to a week of ethics related activities: “Is it professional for healthcare practitioners to engage in strike action?”

16 March 2010

The Origins Centre invites you to our next public lecture, ‡Khomani San: the last of the first presented by Phillipa Holden and David Grossman.

23 March 2010

You are cordially invited to attend the inaugural lecture of Prof Ebrahim Momoniat entitled The mathematical modelling and applications of thin film flows, focusing on the derivation and solutions of equations modelling the evolution of the free surface of a thin film.

News

Wits receives funding from the Claude Leon Foundation

11 March 2010

Wits has received an annual grant of R500, 000 for up to 5 years for its Distinguished Scholars Programme from the Claude Leon Foundation. In 2009, the programme was launched with great success prompting important intellectual benefits, both within Wits and externally as an extension of the University public good engagements.

WALE gives arts the edge with jam-packed 2010 programme

10 March 2010

The 2010 Wits Arts and Literature Experience (WALE) gets underway in under two months, and already the programme is set to make good on WALE’s promise to deliver “arts on the edge”.

‘Sex Actually’: The 2010 Drama for Life Festival

10 March 2010

Drama for Life, a holistic arts programme hosted by the Division of Dramatic Art at Wits, brings you the much anticipated 2010 Drama for Life arts festival, themed ‘Sex Actually.’

Should healthcare workers be allowed to go on strike?

10 March 2010

The Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Wits are hosting Ethics Alive 2010, a week-long programme of debates and discussions exploring issues of ethics, law and human rights in healthcare practice.  The week will run from Monday 15 – Friday 19 March 2010. 

Come and view the Coelacanth at Wits

09 March 2010

The public is invited to come to Wits to view the Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) otherwise known as Old Four Legs. A rare species, Coelacanths (Greek for ‘hollow spine’) were believed to be extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until the first Latimeria specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa in 1938.