News about Witsies
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- The Mail & Guardian’s list of 200 exceptional young South Africans includes artists, entrepreneurs, educators, doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers and … a chess-playing philosopher. Connect with their inspiring stories here.
- Learn more about the Witsies who feature in the book Legends of South African Science, available online.
- Johnny Clegg plans to put on a concert at Wits in 2018.
- Meet three outstanding Witsies in financial services: Elash Mistry, Adrian Gore and Andy Kuper.
- Alumna Professor Daynia Ballot is the new Head of the School of Clinical Medicine.
- Mining company Gold Fields continues to support Wits as a producer of the skills needed by industry in the future. Wits alumnus Nick Holland recently handed over a R6-million sponsorship to the University.
- Gold mining company Sibanye is investing R15-million in the School of Mining Engineering to enable strategic research into the mine of the future. “We need to create the platform for greater innovation through expanded research and education by leading institutions such as Wits,” said Sibanye CEO Neal Froneman (BSc Eng 1981).
- Dean of Science and Wits alumnus Professor Ebrahim Momoniat has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.
- Seven Wits scholars were inaugurated into the Academy of Science of South Africa in 2017.
- Alumni Professors Lynn Morris and Lee Berger are among the world’s most highly cited researchers. Read more about work on HIV vaccines by Prof Morris, alumna Prof Penelope Moore and others.
- The National Research Foundation announced that Professor Lyn Wadley (PhD 1987), a joint Honorary Professor of Archaeology at Wits, has been awarded an A1-rating. This means she is recognised as a leading scholar in her field internationally for the high quality and wide impact of her recent