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Alumni eNews in America 
May 2012
US Army honors engineering movie-maker | Accolades for alumni in the Big Apple | Au.sediba fossil casts turn heads at Smithsonian Institution | Connecting with Witsies in America



Alumni eNews 
April 2012
Riding the wave of the bottled water marketing myth | "Hong Kong is South Africa's gateway to China" | Alumna throws her weight around at Commonwealth Judo Championships | The Peking Man and the US Marine | Sediba fossil casts turn heads in Germany | Witsies unearth South America's oldest carnivorous predator | Award-winning Witsies design Wits Art Museum


 

Alumni eNews 
February 2012
World record-breaking steel headgear extracts gold award | Legal trends require practitioners to keep up with the law | Thumbs up for Hand Surgery Unit five years on | "Three issues dominate the debate around matric results, but they do not illuminate our challenges" | Ancient dinosaur nursery found


 

Alumni eNews 
December 2011/January 2012
BeauTiFuel project to convert waste to fuel debuts at COP 17 | The Secrecy Bill: Wits Law School alumni present their views | HIV drama for life, not just December: Cultural leadership needed | New health research unit explores inter-generational pathways to health 


Alumni eNews
September 2011
Witsie is featured artist at Africa’s only art fair | Witsies aim for gold with bio-tweet bacteria | Order of the Rising Sun for Witsie with the Way of the Sword | Magnet Professionals’ Survey

 


Alumni eNews 
August 2011
Healthcare policy expert impressions of the National Health Insurance (NHI) | Humanities ‘stagnant’ for years | Wits women scientists wow in Women’s Month | New Convocation members strengthen alumni voice

 


Faculty of Humanities
July 2011
For Fact’s Sake fundraiser with Pieter-Dirk Uys | Johnny Clegg classic track remastered for animated Jock of the Bushveld | Gordimer, Mtshali, Khumalo remember Lewis Nkosi | Humanities Sciences alumni with the edge 

 


Faculty of Health Sciences
June 2011
The Japan Disaster: Reflections of a Wits emergency medicine doctor |American psoriasis foundation honours alumnus with Lifetime Achievement award | Art in therapy and doctors who draw | News-making alumna in South Sudan is a doctor without borders | Health Sciences alumni with the edge | Dr Peter King: A half-century of service in the School of Pathology

Pic: wwSkywake: www.janes.comFaculty of Engineering & the Built Environment
January 2011
“Everywhere is here” for National Architectural Student of the Year | Electrical engineering alumna sets the standard in essay competition | Witsies engineer SA’s first production-built light sport aircraft | Alumnus leads Wits School of Mining Engineering | 24-Carat Witsie shines in Canadian Mining Hall of Fame | Mining giant digs deep to fund design lab | Miners look at green energy | Millions invested to mine talent


Jacarandas in bloomFaculty of Science
October 2010
Thousands swarm to 2010 Yebo Gogga Exhibition | High performance computing in SA given the edge | Witsies collaborate to put African global change on the map | Wits University to host convention for 2011 International Year of Chemistry | A World Cup Year of Bio-diversity for APES alumni | Raise a toast to the chemist's excellent tipple | Bird?s eye view for alumni ornithologists at birding weekend | The key to identifying trees | Jo'burg planetarium celebrates

 


Faculty of Commerce, Law & Management
August 2010
Partnership grooms future accountancy alumni to plug South Africa's skills gap | Research rating for pure accountancy Witsie 'Superior number crunching runs in the family' | Mandela Institute to host Globalisation and Governance Conference | Witsie is world's best aviation lawyer | Champion of the oppressed wins International Justice Prize | Wits accountancy alumni amongst South Africa's best | New Heads of Law and Business Schools Faculty | G'day, your Honour! | Mandela Institute courses in September and October 2010 | A love affair with learning | Anglo's Medical Officer to speak on business response to HIV/Aids and TB | Environmental economist and Head of School dies.
Faculty of Health Sciences
May 2010
Where have all the Wits doctors gone? | New head of global surgical society aims to keep Africa at the cutting edge | Coming home: the Faculty of Health Sciences Alumni Diaspora Programme | Postgraduate development under the microscope for new head of School of Anatomical Sciences | Wits doctors in Haiti: Reflections on the Haiti disaster | Legacy of 'the lady of the lamp' shines on a century later for nurses worldwide | High-flying nurse laid to rest at Wits | Lifetime achievement award for alumnus who looked within | Award of the century for alumnus? chronic disease management technology | Wits' "most distinguished graduate" in 1960 wins American Medical College award | Appetite for activism: Public health alumnus shows how to feed the world | A Living Legend

Faculty of Humanities
March 2010
Literati to descend on Wits for 2010 Arts and Literature Experience | All the world s a stage for new head of Wits School of Arts | New head of School of Education knows how teachers and students think | Pioneering the transformation of maths, science education adds up for Marang Centre.

 

 

 

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