University of the Free State

Outbreaks of avian influenza and SARS-CoV-2 highlight the importance of performing research and surveillance for emerging novel viruses and understanding how pathogens circulate in nature with potential for spillover from animals to…

A visiting scholar from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland visited the University of the Free State (UFS) to work with staff members from the UFS Transformation of the Professoriate Mentoring Programme on identifying collaborations,…

Buhle Hlatshwayo, a master’s student on the UFS Qwaqwa Campus, has been selected for the 2023 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) programme. Despite initially doubting herself, she took a leap of faith and applied for the…

The University of the Free State Next Generation Sequencing (UFS-NGS) Unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences recently held a successful Data and Bioinformatics Workshop on the UFS’s Bloemfontein Campus.The week-long workshop, which took…

Louzanne Coetzee, residence head at Akasia residence, and coordinator of parasport for KovsieSport, University of the Free State (UFS) recently scored a silver medal at the World Para Athletics Championships 2023 in Paris, France.Her…

The spineless cactus is a unique perennial plant that is able to yield close to 40 tons of dry matter per hectare per year with a rainfall of 500 mm per annum. “This equates eight tons of biomethane or 11 000 litres of diesel-equivalent…

The University of the Free State’s (UFS) drive towards student engagement and graduate employability necessitates the development and implementation of value-adding initiatives. One such initiative is the Business Management Start-up…

South Africa, like the rest of Africa, is facing increasing water stress due to a variety of factors, including inadequate maintenance and investment in water and sanitation infrastructure, unequal access to water, poor water quality, and…

The University of the Free State (UFS) has welcomed the second cohort of fellows taking part in its Learning and Teaching Fellowship.“The UFS merit-based fellowship programme in Learning and Teaching provides recognition to our university…

Science becomes particularly intriguing when it is approached through hands-on experimentation. The beauty of it is that you do not need access to an expensive laboratory to engage in scientific exploration. With simple, affordable,…