Projects

Skin stem cells give birth to daughter cells that eventually become specialized cells to form our protective, watertight skin and to produce hair. An imbalance of cell type composition, molecular signaling,...

The way we talk about abortion needs to change. Abortion is a safe medical procedure that has a significant impact on one’s life, is emotionally and materially experienced in different ways, and must...

Evolution depends on the copying of genetic information (DNA) with the incorporation of changes (mutations) that are inherited by subsequent generations. Evolutionary biologists use the information in...

For millennia humans have gazed into the sky and wondered where it all came from. Today, using cutting-edge supercomputer and telescope technology, numerical cosmologists are assembling a scientifically-based...

Changed circumstances since the adoption of the primary international human rights treaties, a multitude of scattered education rights norms, and distinct new challenges require a “reframing” of the...

The aim research project is to find new ways to prevent and treat implant associated infections. This is a science-driven innovation focused project that has the potential to highly impact the biomaterials...

This project investigates sound knowledges from Southern African cosmologies and investigate their deployment in black radicalism enacted within Pan-African and black internationalist contexts in the 20th...

In 2018, the South African government instituted a social assistance payment and registration system that it would administer through a public entity: the South African Post Office (SAPO). The shift to...

Archives of the Ethical: Market Exchange, Ethical Relations, and Sensory Politics in the Urban South brings together in comparative perspective, historically situated ethnographic insights of urban market...

A meson fluctuation about a two-flavored chiral soliton model is studied. The fluctuations are treated as large amplitude fluctuations by parametrizing them as collective coordinates. When this collective...

Building on empirical findings of former projects (spread over the years, from 2014 to 2023), the research project aims at conceiving land tenure otherwise, deviating from standard approaches by putting...

The Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970 occasioned the Igbo pogrom and the lingering memory of starvation as a weapon of war. The collective trauma of the period has remained buried in the group’s consciousness....