The theme of this edition, ‘Global’, illustrates how the University of Pretoria (UP) serves as a globally engaged, continental hub that is driving impactful research through innovation, creativity and sustainability.

In this edition, we take you on a journey from Cambodia, where our surgical intervention on an elephant’s tusk made local history, to remote Marion Island, where documenting the flights of albatrosses has implications for aeronautical engineering. We travel back in time to learn how ancient Africans developed climate-smart water storage solutions for droughts in Great Zimbabwe. We also look at the future of faith across the world and consider why globally renowned high-performance athletes need a bit of extra healthcare.

This edition centres on the theme ‘Global’, and reflects not only UP’s global outlook, but also our research that is having an impact around the world. The University has a strong international standing, having placed 63^rd worldwide in the 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings and securing seventh spot globally for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 (Partnership for the Goals).

This issue features the following articles, all of which illuminate the University of Pretoria's global impact:

• A tech centre to optimise business unusual (page 4)
• Five pathways to global health equality (page 6)
• Refining radiation therapy (page 8)
• Energy poverty: A challenge without borders (page 10)
• Setting the standards for safety (page 12)
• Immigration: The polarising issue of our time (page 14)
• Extra time: Keeping footballers in the game longer (page 16)
• Who develops the teacher educator? (page 18)
• Faith like kisses (our social realisation) (page 20)
• Food security starts with biodiversity (page 22)
• From ancient wisdom flows modern water solutions (page 24)
• Fungi for the future (page 26)
• Cambodia witnesses veterinary firsts (page 28)
• Eavesdropping on emotion: A new way to understand wildlife tourism (page 30)
• The highs and lows of albatross flight (page 32)
• Pushing the boundaries of veterinary science (page 34)

Click here or on the cover below to read more.