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2020-06-05 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Fast fashion is the new plastic

"Around the world, one garbage truck of discarded clothing - much of it still wearable - is burnt or dumped in landfills every second of every day," says Dr Lorna Christie from Unisa's Department of Life Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.

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2020-06-04 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Two Unisans to 'walk' the red carpet at the Science Oscars

Vhahangwele Masindi and Leslie Brown have been recognised across four categories for the 2019/2020 NSTF-South32 awards. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the announcement of the winners will take place through a live-streamed gala event on 30 July 2020.

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2020-06-03 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Geography, Corporate

Researcher wins Unisa a share of huge grant

Four African universities will each be receiving a slice of £4 million from the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council for peace education research, working out at around R4,5 million in Unisa’s case.

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2020-05-14 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Research that benefits people's lives

Unisa research fellow Dr Vhahangwele Masindi uses his technologies firmly to address the phenomenon of sustainable development through eco-friendly initiatives that foster the concept of the circular economy.

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2020-05-14 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Research is a lifelong journey

Prof Leslie Brown from Unisa's College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences says life is about questioning everything around us and trying to make sense of it.

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2020-04-25 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Teamwork makes the dream work

Now not a drop of your favourite brew need go to waste with the novel water-saving process patented by Craig Groeneveld and Prof John Dewar from Unisa's College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.

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2020-04-25 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

How we respond to SDGs influences Africa's readiness for pandemics

As the current health crisis rampages through the world, many of the topics discussed at Unisa's annual Research and Innovation Week have considerable relevance now.

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2020-04-08 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Ground-breaking research in anti-cancer drug discovery

Prof Monde Ntwasa, winner of a 2019 Unisa Innovation Award, says that new therapies currently under development involve molecular targeting using small molecules.

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2020-03-27 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

COVID-19: Unisa plays its part in reaching out

As SA goes into lockdown, Dr Prudence Kayoka said on LitNet that, as part of its CE, the university is educating communities in remote areas on local radio, broadcasting information that is being translated into local languages.

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