Wits turned 100 in 2022. Learn more here.
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CREATING CONNECTIONS is what the Wits Fund is all about. We build the sense of home and belonging, as well as the professional networks that Witsies can rely on. Wherever you are in the US, please reach out to us if you would like to start a small and sustainable local group. We'd love to help and guide you as our community grows.
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CREATING CONNECTIONS IN THREE-CITY TOUR
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"What a jol! Best biltong and boerie. And I met such good people. It made me homesick like crazy. Onwards Kudus!"
The Director of the Wits Alumni Relations Office, Peter Maher, and the Senior Officer in the Vice-Chancellor's Office, Kendal Makgamathe, were joined by the Wits US Representative, Nooshin Erfani-Ghadimi on a three city tour of the US: Seattle, Portland and Atlanta.
The events were wonderful and warm and helped create connections between the US Witsies. In each of the cities, alumni groups are forming to make the circles bigger and stronger.
More US pics here:
And of the event in Vancouver, Canada, here.
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ACCLAIMED AUTHOR AND US WITSIE, JONNY STEINBERG, WINS CRITICS AWARD
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Jonny Steinberg (Wits MA, 1996) has won the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography for Winnie & Nelson: A Portrait of a Marriage.
Steinberg is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Yale and a member of the Council on African Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (Wiser) at Wits University.
In Winnie & Nelson, he explores a century of South African history through the prism of the marriage of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
The Washington Post calls the book “a powerful, tragic portrait of a historic marriage.”
Read more here.
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As we feel gratitude for the blessings in our lives, one way to pay it forward is through making an impact in a person's life that will uplift them, and their familes, for generations to come.
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WITSIE OLYMPIAN FLYING THE FLAG HIGH IN PARIS
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Congratulations to Wits Engineering student Harry Saner on making history.
Harry will be the first South African fencer in nearly 16 years to compete in the Olympics, representing South Africa at the Paris 2024 Games. Go Harry!
Read more here.
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WITS RESEARCHER CONTRIBUTES TO GROUNDBREAKING TB VACCINE STUDY
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Researchers discover a potential vaccine to prevent tuberculosis in people of all ages.
In a critical global public health development, a candidate vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) has been created using a gene-editing approach. Professor Bavesh Kana, the Head of the School of Pathology and former director of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research at Wits University, contributed to the groundbreaking study.
“We can now offer a new candidate vaccine in the fight against this deadly disease," says Kana. "The work also demonstrates that gene editing is a powerful way to develop vaccines. This is particularly important for researchers working on vaccine development."
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WATCH: WITS' LATEST NEWS IN SIXTY SECONDS - In this episode, Wits student Harry Saner makes history at the 2024 Paris Olympics as South Africa's first Olympic fencer since 2008, and PhD student Pedro Ornelas wins the John Kiel Scholarship. Students and staff from the Kelvin-Alexandra-Frankenwald City Studio address socio-spatial challenges in Alex and Bath Spa University funds a three-year scheme to support strategic university collaboration. Wits Chancellor Dr Judy Dlamini hosted a seminar on the global digital success of a start-up.
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