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Foreword
Introductory Messages
Professor Christo J Botha (Department Paraclinical Science, Faculty of Veterinary Science).
Exceptional Young Researchers
The awards are in recognition of early career achievements in research:
Dr Marde Helbig (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology)
External Awards
Numerous awards were made to academics at UP for their leadership and research excellence, both nationally and internationally. Some of the most prestigious include:
Professor Cheryl de la Rey, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, was named the 2017 winner in the education category
of the 37th Businesswomen’s Association of South Africa Businesswoman of the Year Awards.
Professor Stella Nkomo, Strategic Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management, received the International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifetime contributions to the creation and development of the discipline of leadership.
Professor Brenda Wingfield, FABI and the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, was awarded honorary membership of the Mycological Society of America, the highest honour for a mycologist, and was also selected as a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society in recognition of her research achievements and outreach
to young scientists. In 2017 she was named as one of 11 inspirational SA women authors with highly cited papers by Clarivate Analytics (previously Thomson Reuters), based on InCites and Essential Science Indicator data.
Professor Mike Wingfield, founding director of FABI, received the Chinese Government Friendship Award for 2017 to acknowledge his 20 years of collaboration with Chinese colleagues in the field of tree health.
Professor Charles van Onselen, Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, was awarded the Annual Medal in the Social Sciences and Humanities by the Human Sciences Research Council.
Dr Sim H Mayaphi (Department of Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences)
Dr Eshchar Mizrachi (FABI, and the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.
Dr Tjaart Kruger (Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences).
Professor Robert Millar, Director of the Centre for Reproductive Neuroendocrinology, was awarded
the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship for his work in neuroendocrinology. He also received the highest award of the African Union, the Kwame Nkrumah Continental Award for excellence in scientific achievement.
Professor Brenda Wingfield (FABI) and Professor Nigel Bennett (Zoology) were elected Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences, while Professor Don Cowan (Genetics) was elected an Associate Fellow.
In the DST’s 2017 Women in Science Awards, Professor Henriëtta de Kock (Food Science) received the Distinguished Woman Researcher: Research and Innovation Award; Professor Roula Inglesi-Lotz (Economics) won the Distinguished Young Woman Researcher: Humanities and Social Sciences Award, and Professor Saloshna Vandeyar (Education) was the first runner-up in the Distinguished Woman Researchers: Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dr Thulani Makhalanyane (Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, and the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology) was named as one of the Young Independents 100 Inspiring and Aspiring Leaders Awards of the Independent Media Group.
Professor Jacqui van der Waals (Department of Plant and Soil Sciences) received the Applied Plant Pathologist Award at the 50th Anniversary Congress of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology.
Dr Vinet Coetzee and Professor Sanushka Naidoo
(FABI, and the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology) were selected as Next Einstein Forum Fellows from 2017–2019.
DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
PEOPLE AND CONTEXTS
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
PLANET AND SUSTAINABILITY
Awards
Lead Researchers
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