BeauTiFuel project to convert waste to fuel debuts at COP 17

Chemical engineering alumni have unveiled the prototype of a modular unit that can convert one ton of agricultural waste into a barrel of diesel and 0.5 megawatt hours of electricity a day.

The 'Secrecy Bill': Wits Law School alumni present their views

Parliament has approved the controversial Protection of State Information legislation - the so-called ‘Secrecy Bill’ - despite media and academic protest. Wits School of Law alumni Dario Milo proposed in The Times 'Info Bill needed - just not this one', while Mduduzi Skhosana suggests in The Edge that the Bill is "misunderstood".

HIV drama for life, not just December:
Cultural leadership needed

December 1 marked World Aids Day. But for more than 5-million infected people in South Africa, HIV/Aids endures. For life. Drama for Life (DFL) is a postgraduate programme in the Wits dramatic arts division. DFL uses performing arts as a medium for HIV/Aids education, activism and therapy.

BeauTiFuel project to convert waste
to fuel debuts at COP 17

New health research unit explores inter-generational pathways to health

The Wits Faculty of Health Sciences launched the MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health
Research Unit (DPHRU) on 7 December 2011, to study health and well-being across generations.