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  Awards and recognition
There are numerous awards and accolades that UP staff and students receive in recognition of their achievements. This brief overview is of the internal UP research awards, and of some of the most prestigious external awards in 2018.
 INTERNAL AWARDS
The Chancellor’s Award, in recognition of exceptional achievement in research:
• Prof Zander Myburg, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and
Microbiology, Director of the Forest Molecular Genetics Programme in the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, and Chair of Forest Genomics and Biotechnology at UP.
• Prof Josua Meyer, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, and Chair of the School of Engineering.
The Vice-Chancellor’s Book Awards, in recognition of excellence in the publishing of scholarly books, monographs and collections:
• Prof Jan Snyman and Prof D Nico Wilke, Practical Mathematical
Optimization (2nd edition, Springer, 2018)
• Prof Riël Franzsen and Dr William McCluskey, Property Tax in Africa
– Status, Challenges, and Prospects (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2017).
The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellent Supervision, under- scoring the critical link between research and postgraduate students: Prof Mike Wingfield, founding Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), who has been the advisor or co-advisor of 101 doctoral students and 68 master’s students over a period of 30 years as an academic.
Exceptional Academic Achievers Awards, made to senior academics who have consistently excelled in their academic fields:
• Prof Teresa Coutinho, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and
Microbiology
• Prof Louis Nel, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and
Microbiology
• Prof Emma Steenkamp, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and
Microbiology
• Prof Lyn-Marie Birkholtz, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and
Microbiology
• Prof Marion Meyer, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
• Prof Andrew McKechnie, Department of Zoology and Entomology
• Prof Steve Cornelius, Department of Private Law
• Prof Ragan Gupta, Department of Economics
• Prof Walter Föcke, Department of Chemical Engineering.
Exceptional Young Researchers Awards, in recognition of early career achievements in research:
• Prof Regard Brits, Department of Mercantile Law
• Dr Thulani Makhalanyane, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology
• Dr Tung Le, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics • Dr Paul Razafimandimby, Department of Mathematics and Applied
Mathematics
• Dr Hendrik Brink, Department of Chemical Engineering
• Dr Nico Wilke, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Dr Jeannie van der Linde, Department of Speech-Language
Pathology and Audiology.
EXTERNAL AWARDS
• Prof Robert Millar – the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Award for scientific excellence, and for his contribution to advancing the field of science and research on the continent.
• Prof De Wet Swanepoel – the Newton Advanced Fellowship by the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK.
• Prof Dire Tladi – the Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar Program Grant for his work on the International Law Commission’s Peremptory Norms of General International Law.
• Prof Egmont Rohwer – the Georg Forster Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
• Prof Alisa Phulukdaree – Fellow of the Next Einstein Forum.
• Dr Irene Barnes – the Ethel Mary Doidge Medal in recognition of
outstanding early career research in mycology.
• Dr Taryn Bond-Barnard – the Global Young Researcher Award. • Danielle Twilley – the L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science
International Rising Talents Award; and Fiona Mumoki and Andy
Wilson, Fellowships for Women in Science Regional Programme. • UP academics won three National Science and Technology Forum
Awards: Prof Tiaan de Jager and the UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control team – Communication for Outreach and Creating Awareness of Science Engineering Technology and Innovation; Prof Kevin Ward – the Lifetime Achievement Award; and Prof Mmantsae Diale – the Award for Exceptional Performance in Research Development.
• Prof Brenda Wingfield – the South African Society for Microbiology’s Gold Medal for exceptional service over an extended period of time.
• Prof Mike Wingfield – the South African Academy for Arts and Sciences MT Steyn Prize.
• Dr Siona O’Connell – the Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Hanging on a Wire.
• Prof Braam van Wyk – the South African Association of Botanists Gold Medal Award for his lifetime contribution to Botany.
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