The Unisa Alumni Relations Office concluded 2022’s activities with a visit to alumni in Mauritius. The office had the opportunity to visit 18 of the 21 chapters this year, and rekindle relationships with Unisa’s valued alumni after the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more

Unisa boasts alumni chapters in ten African countries and eleven in South African regions. The chapters were established in 2008 to play an integral part in the university’s sustainability. Read more

Bezalem Eshetu Yirdaw, a PhD student in Unisa’s College of Science, Engineering and Technology, was announced as one of the top 20 scientists awarded the 2022 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talents Award for her work in child morbidity. Read more

Great excitement was evident as graduates who could not attend the autumn graduation ceremonies in Unisa’s Eastern Cape Region recently collected their certificates. Read more

Masedi Masekane, a joint doctoral student from Unisa’s Department of Physics and the University of Zagreb, was recently awarded a young scientist award in Trieste, Italy. Read more

Is there a gap in the market, and is there a market in that gap? Unisa’s Directorate of Innovation, Technology Transfer and Commercialisation has been training staff and students to evaluate whether their proposed solution addresses a real market need. Read more

Caroline Matenchi, Unisa’s Biomedical Science student and inventor of an Agricultural Smart Sensor, has been accepted into the UK Future Female Business School Accelerator Programme. The programme aims to empower women in start-up, inter-median and functioning businesses to improve their target market and to be different in the Green-Tech solutions industry.Read more

Unisa’s Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Puleng LenkaBula, recently hosted the founder and CEO of Moodle, Dr Martin Dougiamas, to strengthen the university’s relationship with one of the world’s largest learning management systems. Read more

EWN reporter and former Unisa Radio newsreader, Kgomotso Modise, recently won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year 2022 Gauteng Regional Award in the category Live Reporting and Breaking News for her work covering the Senzo Meyiwa case and the Rosettenville shootout between police and cash-in-transit robbers. Read more