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We use our abundance of knowledge, talent, and innovation to find solutions to the challenges of the 21st Century.

Launch of Irish Tech Challenge SA 2024 ignites innovation

The Tech Challenge seeks to foster partnerships between South African and Irish startups.

15 March 2024

Why do we usually sleep at night and what happens when we don't?

Sleep is as essential to our health as food and water. It is important to a number of brain functions, including how nerve cells communicate with each other.

15 March 2024

Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate

The Holberg Prize is one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology.

14 March 2024

Advancing gender and leadership in higher education

A group of ten Wits University staff and students recently attended the Afretec Gender in STEM Workshop in Kigali, Rwanda.

14 March 2024



Wits Innovation Centre (WIC)

The Wits Innovation Centre (WIC) lies at the heart of the University's innovation ecosystem that seeks to develop an 'innovation mindset' across all disciplines and boundaries. This is where brilliant minds come together to create, collaborate, and drive multidisciplinary innovation that leads to impactful solutions. #WitsInnovation | #InnovationForGood





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Wits was the first South African university to have a nuclear accelerator, to test radar, to have a computer, to study building materials, to produce a systematic climatological atlas of southern Africa, to achieve a successful graft of plastic cornea, and the first African university to have access to a quantum computer. These are just some of our 'firsts'.







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A cross-faculty, cross-discipline centre to promote postgraduate students focused on enhancing the postgraduate experience and promoting postgraduate research


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For 100 years, Wits has nurtured innovators, discoverers, problem-solvers, activists, artists, critical thinkers, and thought leaders - all who punch above their weight.


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The Research and Innovation Office drives a number of initiatives that aim to grow future generations of scholars publishing research with impact.


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The Internationalisation and Strategic Partnership Office partners with universities, research entities, government, and many others in pursuit of solutions to impact society for good.




Our strategic priorities

Wits is pursuing eight priority areas that will have a major impact on our society. For Good.





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Wits produces innovative research with far-reaching impact. We are proud of our researchers who count among the leaders in their fields. READ THE REPORT

This is where brilliant minds come together to share, collaborate, and support innovation from first ideas and research to entrepreneurship and societal impact. LEARN MORE

The Plan presents a framework aimed at supporting researchers and thus enabling them to achieve the strategic objective. LEARN MORE

Our theme-based research magazine tells the stories of groundbreaking research through the voices of talented researchers, students and academics. READ THE LATEST ISSUE