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2021-06-23 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Geography

Celebrating the World Environment Day

The Department of Geography of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, in collaboration with the Unisa Sustainability Office hosted a celebration of World Environment Day (WED) on 4 June 2021.

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2021-06-11 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

CAES celebrates International Day for Biological Diversity

"We are part of the solution" was the message from the Department of Environmental Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences on 21 May.

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2021-06-01 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Striving to maintain a high research standard

After receiving a C2 rating by the NRF, Prof Frederick Tabit of Unisa's Department of Life and Consumer Sciences says it means that he has set a minimum standard for himself and must strive to get higher ratings in the future.

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2021-05-26 00:00:00.0 | Category: Life and Consumer Sciences, Lead, Featured, Research news, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Reflecting on consumer decisions through the lens of a consumer scientist

Delivering her inaugural lecture, Professor Elizabeth Kempen unpacked the importance of consumer decision-making, an important area within the field of consumer science

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2021-04-29 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Geography

Young academic flying the Geography flag high!

Despite the tough year the University and the country at large have experienced in 2020, the 2021 academic year has started on a successful note for Mr Mafanya Madodomzi of the Department of Geography.

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2021-03-24 00:00:00.0 | Category: Life and Consumer Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Chemistry, Featured, Research news, IDAES, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Corporate

Collaboration key to combat scourge of TB

Two Unisa colleges have joined forces to tackle the challenge of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. The focus of the research is the chemical design and synthesis of new TB drugs and biological investigation into several medicinal plants as a cradle of novel TB drug leads. #ItsTimetoEndTB #WorldTBDay

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2021-03-23 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Research news, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Celebrating water one drink at a time!

Unisa's Dr Felix Donkor says that this year's celebration of World Water Day is unique as 2021 intersects with the final decade of action to deliver the SDGs as well as global efforts towards sustainable recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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2021-03-16 00:00:00.0 | Category: Life and Consumer Sciences, Lead, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Responsiveness to Covid-19 earns her nomination in prestigious awards

Unisa's Dr Wendy Nokhwezi Phoswa is a finalist in the Emerging Scholar category in the HSRC-USAf 2020 Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities. The 27-year-old has also been nominated as one of the 2020 100 Most Influential Young South Africans.

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2021-02-18 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

New Unisa VC visits the Science Campus

Professor Puleng LenkaBula met with the executive deans and delegates from the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology and the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences to have an engagement that could assist the university in moving forward.

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