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2023-03-16 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Geography, Corporate

Department of Geography sets the standard with new online glossary

In line with Unisa's transformation and language policy, the Department of Geography has developed an online multilingual glossary. The glossary is an open educational resource available to lecturers and students, other universities, school teachers and learners, and stakeholders in civil society and industry.

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2023-02-16 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured

Long live Unisa, long live!

Unisa staff and students share their well wishes ahead of the university's 150th anniversary (#Unisa150) official academic opening ceremony on Friday 10 February 2023.

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2022-11-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa students voyage to the Southern oCean seAsonal Experiment winter 2022 cruise

Unisa students, Sandra Maluleke and Udoka Ogugua, formed part of the South African Polar Research Infrastructure team collaborating on the Southern oCean seAsonal Experiment winter 2022 cruise. The students were trained in ocean surveillance, basic meteorology, biodiversity analysis and water sampling techniques.

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2022-10-31 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa contributes to the eradication of poverty

To further address the scourge of poverty, CAES’s Dr Florence Malongane says the college, through its various departments, will need to intensify its engaged scholarship and community engagement activities.

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2022-10-24 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisan shares DNA expertise at the United Nations

At the recent 2022 Science Summit of the United Nations General Assembly 77 in the United States, Prof Ntanganedzeni Mapholi spoke about AfricaBP’s efforts to utilise DNA methods to improve the future of biodiversity and agriculture production across Africa.

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2022-09-20 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa adds academic muscle to African genome research

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences recently hosted a meeting of the African BioGenome Project, an impressive Africa-led effort to sequence the genomes of plants, animals, fungi and protists that are endemic to the continent.

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2022-09-12 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa in strategic talks with the University of Edinburgh

The university's College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences recently commenced an engagement with the research-intensive Scottish institution with a view to collaborating on livestock development-related studies.

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2022-08-30 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Antimicrobial drug resistance: Is the post-antibiotic era upon us?

In his inaugural lecture, Prof James Wabwire Oguttu focused on especially two key areas regarding drug resistance: training future epidemiologists, and contributing to the creation of knowledge in veterinary public health through publishing.

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2022-08-29 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Lead, Featured, Lead, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa stakes its claim at the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show

The university is continuing its internationalisation drive by participating in this premier showcase which will be attended by more than 400 exhibitors from, among others, Malawi, Botswana and India.

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