Wits in 60 Seconds | Season 2 | Episode 24: Your weekly Wits News digest

In this week's episode, we celebrate former Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal Prof. Loyiso Nongxa's honorary doctorate for his leadership in mathematics and higher education. We congratulate five Wits academics on winning National Science and Technology Awards, and recognise Dr Muhammad Ahsan Mahboob, Head of the Wits Sibanye-Stillwater Digital Mining Laboratory, for earning his PhD in Engineering. We explore the spread of superbugs using mobile and genomic data and highlight a 90-million-year-old novel beetle species fossil discovery in Botswana. Read more at www.wits.ac.za/news.

[@PhilipMayers]

Thanks for the update. It's great to have a short snapshot of 'goings-on' at Wits. Special congratulations to Professor Loyiso Nongxa, who we were so pleased to meet when he visited Australia a few years ago.