South African women at higher risk of perinatal depression
South Africa faces a perinatal depression crisis, with mothers three to four times more likely to be affected than their...
Head of Sibanye Stillwater Digital Mining Laboratory graduates with a PhD in engineering from Wits.
In a celebratory ceremony held at Wits Great Hall on 8 July 2024, Dr. Muhammad Ahsan Mahboob, the Head of...
The urgent need to empower women in tech
The Urgent Need to Empower Women in TechAfrica stands on the precipice of technological revolution with the potential to leapfrog...
BePRECISE consortium unveils guidelines to enhance reporting in precision medicine research
The inaugural reporting guidelines for precision medicine research, of which Wits University Professor Michèle Ramsay is co-author, have been published...
Can an ancient treatment be used to help fight cervical cancer?
Researchers at Wits University have successfully applied a new technique to enhance the effectiveness of heat therapy as a way...
Eskom Expo ISF honours top young scientists with exciting prizes and bursaries
Friday, 27 September 2024: An array of exciting prizes from full bursaries to cash prizes, laptops and tablet computers were...
Breaking Barriers
In Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers, published in Harvard Business Review, authors Herminia Ibarra, Robin J. Ely and Deborah M. Kolb),...
Artificial Intelligence and gender equality
The world has a gender equality problem and nowhere is it more often mirrored than Artificial Intelligence (AI).Globally more women...
National science week 2024: Living in a High-Tech World: Should We Be Concerned?
The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) is proud to announce the launch of National Science Week 2024, an annual...
Beyond Parity: The Impact of Women Leaders in Science and Technology
By Dr Rakeshnie Ramoutar-Prieschl, Head: Research and Development at University of Pretoria (on secondment to the Dept of Science &...