NWU Student selected as Science Today candidate

A PhD student from the Department of Biological Science at the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU), Theodora Ekwomadu, was selected as one of the Science Today 2016 candidates.

Science Today, formerly Science Voices, is a science-writing project run by award-winning science journalist, Sarah Wild.  Postgraduate science…

BABEL Project: Winning a global speech technology challenge

North-West University (NWU) researchers within the field of speech technology were part of an international consortium that recently won a high-profile speech technology challenge - a first for South African researchers, in this field. 

Today’s speech transcription systems are built on technology that was originally developed for English and…

First publishers acknowledged

A total of 40 staff members of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Potchefstroom Campus received recognition for their first publication of a research article.

This event is held annually to welcome staff members into the ranks of research publishers.

Prof Susan Visser, Vice-Rector: Research and Planning, said that everyone is…

NWU CARST Centre Director appointed to GIF SA Chapter

The director of the  Centre for Applied Radiation Science and Technology (CARST) on the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU), Prof Victor Tshivhase, was recently nominated and unanimously appointed to serve as a member on the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) Senior Advisory Panel.

The main objectives of GIF Senior…

NWU Vaal BTMG: an equation that makes sense!

This year marks the fourth rendition of the very successful learning programme: Bridging The Mathematical Gap, as presented by the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Information Technology on the Vanderbijlpark Campus of the North-West University. 

The programme literally takes the sting out of mathematics and offers learners the opportunity…

Bridging the Mathematical Gap – offering matriculants a second chance at success

Four years since the inception of the Bridging The Mathematical Gap (BTMG) learning programme at the North-West University’s (NWU's) Vanderbijlpark Campus, many learners have not only overcome towards anxiety for mathematics, but are also flourishing as students pursuing their university studies within the BCom and BSc fields.

Many of these…

Prestigious Royal Society inducts NWU professor

Prof Chaundry M Khalique, from the International Institute for Symmetry Analysis and Mathematical Modelling on the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU),  has recently been inducted as one of three 2016 fellows of the prestigious Royal Society of South Africa.

The Royal Society of South Africa, founded in 1908, is an…