December 2008

As 2008 draws to a close, the Facultycan celebrate a successful andproductive year that has seen a numberof significant achievements. Despitesevere budget constraints andchallenges associated with filling keypositions, the Faculty has maintainedits high standards and commitment toexcellence.

Although there are still several unfilledposts within the Faculty, numerousimportant appointments have beenmade and we continue to advertise andendeavour to attract staff withspecialised skills. Many staff andstudents have excelled in various areasranging from teaching and research tocommunity outreach initiatives. Wecontinue to produce the highestresearch output and 10 of the top 30ranked researchers in the institution in2008 emanate from our Faculty.

The Faculty’s relocation of its Durban-based activities from the HowardCollege campus to the Westville

campus is finally complete. TheSchools of Biological andConservation Sciences, Chemistry,Mathematical Sciences and Physics arewell ensconced in their new facilities.Biochemistry and Microbiology areabout to embark on majorrefurbishments which should becomplete by early next year as will thefurther extension of the ElectronMicroscope Unit. We can nowconfidently boast of having some of thebest teaching and research facilities onthe continent and these have impressedmany visitors to our Faculty.

The Science and TechnologyEducation Centre was officially openedby the Minister of Science andTechnology, Dr Mosibudi Mangena, inOctober. During his visit to theWestville campus, the Minister wastreated to a tour of some of the newlyrenovated facilities in Physics andChemistry. In his keynote address, hementioned the importance of sciencecentres in bridging the gap betweenscience and society and said they havea significant influence on youngpeople, directing them to careers inscience, engineering and technology.

We are currently celebrating 60 yearsof agricultural teaching and researchon the Pietermaritzburg campus.Numerous celebratory activities areplanned for the end of the year thatinclude tours of the agriculturalfacilities, a symposium and paneldiscussion on the past, present andfuture trends in African Agriculture anda formal dinner. Reflecting on the pastgrants us an opportunity to celebrate

our achievements; encourages us topause and take stock of where we arenow; and inspires us to refine ourvision for the future of agriculture atUKZN. Agriculture is clearly a vehiclefor realising the University’s vision andeven more so in the current context inwhich a Green Revolution for Africais hailed as the solution to hunger inAfrica amidst a global food, fuel andeconomic crisis.

I would like to take this opportunity tosay farewell and thank you to two keyFaculty members who will be leavingus at the end of the year: Professor JaneMeyerowitz and Dr Joseph Kioko. Janehas more than ably served as DeputyDean since the birth of the Faculty andour loss has been the University’s gainas she has been appointed to theposition of Registrar. Joseph started outas a Biology honours student and hasrisen through the ranks to his currentposition of Director of the Centre ofScience Access where he has excelledin every way. He has accepted aposition at Cape Penninsula Universityof Technology.

A sincere thank you to every memberof the Faculty for all your hard workand commitment over the past year. Iwish you and your families a relaxing,safe and enjoyable festive season andI look forward to seeing you in the newyear, refreshed and ready to tackle thechallenges ahead.

John Cooke

Professor John Cooke.

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On 10 October, the National Minister ofScience and Technology, Dr MosibudiMangena, officially opened the Faculty ofScience and Agriculture’s Science andTechnology Education Centre (STEC) onthe Westville campus.

The main purpose of STEC is to stimulatean awareness of and interest in science andtechnology and to foster close links withlearners, educators and the public. It willalso offer a glimpse of some of the currentresearch at UKZN and its possibleapplications. Key features of the Centreinclude: the Geology Education Museumwhich is the only geology museum inKwaZulu-Natal; a computer gallery withinteractive software; an open plan displayarea featuring interactive exhibits; amultipurpose seminar/workshop room anda lecture theatre.

In his address to staff, students and industrypartners, Dr Mangena praised theleadership of the University on this“important milestone in the history of theinstitution, which is making a significantcontribution to science education in SouthAfrica”. He highlighted the need to increasepublic understanding of science and said,“the fact that this Science and TechnologyEducation Centre combines the science-

Minister of Science & Technology opens centre

Dr Tanja Reinhardt, Director of STEC,shows Minister Mangena the Scienceand Technology Education Centre.

Minister Mangena delivers his addressat the opening of the Centre.

based outreach initiatives of variousacademic Schools makes it an effectiveplatform for scientists, engineers,academics and researchers on all the UKZNcampuses to interact with the generalpublic”.

A Schools’ Science Symposium for Grade11 learners was expertly organised andhosted by the Faculty’s Science StudentCouncil on the Westville campus on the lastday of the University winter vacation.Approximately 300 learners from 30 highschools in Durban and surrounding areasattended talks by lecturers from all theSchools within the Faculty.

An annual event since 1966, theSymposium reaches out to learners whohave an interest in pursuing tertiary studiesin the areas of science and agriculture. Itprovides budding scientists with access tovaluable knowledge as well as the oppor-tunity to interact with experts capable ofguiding them in making a stimulating andrewarding career choice.

The Science Symposium was also avaluable exercise for the teachers whointeracted with the Dean and Facultystaff over lunch. They praised theFaculty for exposing their learners tothe “real world” and for providing agl impse of the diverse range ofopportunities available to young peopletoday.

Schools’ ScienceSymposium scores topmarks

Faculty Postgraduate Research Symposium winners

Oral Presentations: M-Stream1st Prize Ismail Akhalwaya

The bandwidth of a noisy quantum channelwith memory

School of Physics, Westville: Supervisedby Professor Francesco Petruccione

2nd Prize Jean Medard TchoukouegnoNgnotchouye

Mechanisms of coupling for river networkssimulations

School of Mathematical Sciences, PMB:Supervised by Professor M K Banda (Wits)and Professor P Sibanda (UKZN)

3rd Prize Chun-Sung Huang

Pricing options from the point of view of atrader

School of Statistics & Actuarial Science,Westville: Supervised by Professor JohnO’Hara

Oral Presentations: LES-Stream1st Prize Benice Sivparsad

The use of segmented gene constructs todevelop transgenic sweet potato (ipomeabatatas l.) with broad virus resistance inSouth Africa

School of Biochemistry, Genetics,Microbiology and Plant Pathology, PMB:Supervised by Dr Augustine Gubba

2nd Prize Phillia Vukea

Expression of infectious bursal diseasevirus (ibdv) polyprotein and vp4 protease

School of Biochemistry, Genetics, Micro-biology and Plant Pathology, PMB:

Supervised by Professor TheresaCoetzer

3rd Prize Sandy-Lynn Steenhuisen

The importance of floral scent in theevolutionary shift from bird to beetlepollination in protea

School of Biological and ConservationSciences, PMB: Supervised by ProfessorSteven Johnson

Poster Prize

Sandy-Lynn Steenhuisen

A beetle pollination system in grasslandproteas

School of Biological and ConservationSciences, PMB: Supervised by ProfessorSteven Johnson

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Various academics from the Faculty areactively engaged in the Academy ofScience of South Africa (ASSAf), anational academy that provides science-based advice to government and thecommunity. In May, Professor RoseanneDiab (School of Environmental Sciences)was appointed to the prestigious positionof ASSAf Executive Officer and Professor

Pat Berjak (School of Biological andConservation Sciences) was re-elected asone of two Vice-Presidents. In addition,Professor Manfred Hellberg (School ofPhysics) was re-elected for a third term asa council member and Professor SunilMaharaj was re-appointed as a specialadviser to the Council. In October, thefollowing academics from the School of

Biological and Conservation Scienceswere elected to the membership of theAcademy: Professors Chris Appleton andHimansu Baijnath. Former academic andFellow of the University, ProfessorMichael Samways (Entomology) wasawarded a Science-for-Society GoldMedal by the academy as well as electedto its membership.

Faculty members active in national science academy

The Centre for Electron Microscopy(CEM), located in the John Bews Buildingon the Pietermaritzburg campus, recentlyinstalled a new confocal laser scanningmicroscope. This instrument has the powerto visualise cells in three dimensions at highresolution. Cellular components can be

Centre for Electron MicroscopyNew confocal microscope in the Centre for Electron Microscopy

Dr Edith Elliot working on the Confocal Microscope.

Pollen grains, 3D projection. Convallaria 2 autofluorescence.Fluorescently labelled cathepsin Bproteins in breast cancer.

Images from the Confocal Microscope:

labelled with fluorescent markers and thefate of these cells can be visualised in realtime.

Dr Edith Elliot, a senior lecturer inBiochemistry has played a major role inthe acquisition of this new microscope. Her

main research interests involve cancer andmechanisms of killing tuberculosis.Enzymes known as metalloproteases playa key role in the spread of cancer. Usingthis instrument she will be able to studymigration of these enzymes to specialisedcavities in the extracellular matrix.Treatments that effectively regulate thismigration may play a role in preventing thespread of cancer. Ongoing studies withinBiochemistry in the areas of malaria andstem cell research will also benefit greatly.In addition, this instrument is expected tobe used across a range of disciplines.

Regardless of your research area – plant oranimal sciences, cellular biology, micro-biology or medical research – confocalmicroscopy can provide new insight intoyour research.

Bookings for the use of the Confocal LaserScanning Microscope can be made throughMrs Pat Joubert in the CEM:

Tel: (033) 260 5155E-mail: joubertps@ukzn.ac.za

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A very successful initiative to recruitstudents for the Centre for Science Access(CSA) took place during the July vacation.A total of 103 current and former CSAstudents from both the Pietermaritzburgand Westville campuses voluntarilyparticipated in the recruitment drive. Theyconducted presentations at 311 dis-advantaged schools throughout the country,reaching over 10 000 learners. Besidespresenting the science access options, thestudents also shared their experiences of

Centre for Science AccessStudents reach out to communities

Some of the current and former Science Access students who took part in the studentrecruitment drive.

EARTH (Escuela de Agricultura de la Region Tropical Húmeda) Universityin Costa Rica has offered a full time four-year scholarship to Ms NokubongaCherryl Mweli, a Science Foundation Programme student (SFP) at the CSA.She will study towards a BSc degree in Agriculture and will commence herstudies at the beginning of 2009.

This scholarship is offered to young South Africans from disadvantagedbackgrounds and low income families who possess not only academic potential,but also environmental awareness, an entrepreneurial spirit, and vocationalinterest in Agriculture. Nokubonga was selected from among 10 CSA studentswho applied for the scholarship and is the third South African recipient. Theother two recipients have also been UKZN science access students.

A very excited Nokubonga said, “Earth University has given me an opportunitythat I have to grab with both hands…. I’m from a community that is dependenton farming and planting crops for survival. At Earth University I’ll gainagricultural experience and be able to come back and contribute to upliftingmy society in terms of agriculture and community development.”

EARTH University scholarship for CSA student

Ms Nokubonga Mweli (right) with Ms Neeta Soni(left), a 3rd year EARTH University studentcurrently doing her internship at UKZN.

studying in the programme and at theUniversity.

The schools provided written feedback oftheir appreciation for the visits, indicatingthat the presentations were informative,interesting and motivating for both teachersand learners. Many of the schools were notaware of the access options at theUniversity and requested more timeous andfrequent visits. The lack of finances wasmentioned as a major concern that prevents

many learners from considering furtherstudies.

The CSA students were recognised for theirparticipation and awards were presented tothe students who visited the most numberof schools. A small stationery pack and acertificate of appreciation were also givento each student who participated in therecruitment drive.

For this drive, brightly coloured t-shirtsadvertising the CSA and the Universitywere sponsored by the University’s Cor-porate Relations Division. The CSAexpresses sincere gratitude for thesponsorship.

The CSA finds this method of advertisingthe most suitable for reaching its targetmarket and is extremely grateful to all thestudents who volunteered their assistance.Besides helping the Centre (and theFaculty) reach its enrolment targets,recruitment drives are an excellentexperience for the students who participatein them. They build up the students’confidence and make them feel good abouthelping their previous schools. Overall theyhelp the learners believe that it is possibleto accomplish their dreams despite comingfrom difficult backgrounds.

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School of Agricultural Sciences andAgribusiness

Four Postgraduate Diploma Dieteticsstudents taking a module in CommunityNutrition were invited to participate ina staff wellness day at The South AfricanSugar Association (SASA) on 21 August.Working together with SASA’s NutritionDepartment, their aim was to dispelcurrent dietary myths by presentingsound scientific information and usingtheir creative flair. The students eachdeveloped and hosted a stand addressingdietary myths such as: ‘sugar makes youfat’, ‘sugar causes diabetes,’ ‘brownfoods are always healthier than whitefoods’ and ‘organic food is better foryou.’ The feedback from the SASA staffwas wonderful and the studentsthoroughly enjoyed the opportunity tointeract with the corporate world.

Postgraduate Diploma student, Ms Melissa Pyle presents her stand to staff at theSouth African Sugar Association Wellness Day.

(left–right) Ms Solane Mkhize (SASA), Ms Wendy de Goede (UKZN) and MsDuduzile Mthuli (Nutrition Manager, SASA) with UKZN students: Ms NokuthulaChitwayo, Ms Melissa Pyle, Ms Jessica Norton and Ms Julia Reader.

Agricultural Economics won two awardsat the Agricultural Economics Associ-ation of South Africa (AEASA) AnnualConference held in Windhoek from 24-26 September. MScAgric student MrRichard Mac Nicol, supervised byProfessor Gerald Ortmann and co-supervised by Dr Stuart Ferrer, receivedthe AEASA Best Masters Thesis Awardfor 2007/2008. He studied sources andmanagement of risk in large-scalesugarcane farming in KwaZulu-Natal.Honorary Professor Mike Lyne andstudent, Mr Tanaka Dengu, won the prizefor the second best paper in Agrekon (theofficial journal of AEASA) in 2007/2008for their paper entitled: “Secure landrental contracts and agriculturalinvestment in two communal areas ofKwaZulu-Natal”.

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School of Biological and ConservationSciences

Staff newsNew additions to the academic staffinclude: Drs Doug Stone (Lecturer:Pietermaritzburg); Angus McDonald(Lecturer: Westville) and Benny Bytebier(Lecturer: Pietermaritzburg). Mrs YvonneGengiah was appointed as AssistantAdministrative Officer (Westville).

We bid farewell to Professors MichelleHamer (Pietermaritzburg) and DaveSchoeman (Westville), who will be leavingat the end of the year. We wish them wellin their new careers. The Westville campuswill also lose technical staff members MrDehn Von Ahlefeldt and Mr BernardMbambo, as well as Professor Mike Smithwho will be retiring.

Professors Barry Lovegrove (Pietermaritz-burg), Renzo Perissinotto (Westville) andDave Ward (Pietermaritzburg) deliveredtheir inaugural lectures during 2008.

Awards and achievementsProfessor Emeritus Patricia Berjak(Westville) received the highly prestigiousPresident’s Lifetime Achievement Awardfrom the National Research Foundation forher “outstandingly extraordinary contri-butions to the development of science inand for South Africa”.

Dr Daryl Codron (Pietermaritzburg) wasawarded the Royal Society’s MeiringNaude Medal for 2009, which is awardedto young South African scientists forexcellence in research.

Ms Meghan Ellis (MSc student: Pieter-maritzburg) received the award for the BestPresentation by a Young Scientist at the2008 meeting of the Grassland Society ofSouthern Africa.

Four postgraduate students (Westville)received Honorable Mention Awards at the2008 Congress of the International Societyfor Seed Science (ISSS) held in Olsztyn,Poland. Awards for oral presentations wentto PhD students Mr Sershen Naidoo and

Faculty Fun RunThis annual 5 km race, hosted by theFaculty on 18 June, was well supported bystaff and students from both thePietermaritzburg and Westville campuses.Besides enjoying a relaxing run and awonderful breakfast, the School managedto scoop two of the six prizes on offer: DrTimo van der Niet (Pietermaritzburg) andthe team of “Vee and Van” (Westville) wonthe First Man Home and Last Person Homeprizes, respectively.

School participants in the 2008 FacultyFun Run.

KwaNunu exhibition a hugesuccessPromoting biodiversity conservation andrespect for the environment, the KwaNunu(Place of the Animals) interactiveexhibition was co-hosted by the DurbanNatural Science Museum and the Schoolof Biological and Conservation Sciencesfrom 11-15 July. Co-ordinated by MrsMarilyn Bodasing (Westville), the eventwas aimed at the general public, notablyschool children, and coincided with theInternational Congress of Entomology inDurban. Besides several displays on a widerange of topics, manned by staff and post-graduate students from both campuses, theexhibition also featured public lectures byProfessor Chris Appleton and Dr CorrieSchoeman (Westville).

2008 Garden & Leisure ShowThe University scooped a Gold for itsexhibit at this premier horticultural eventfrom 3-5 October in Pietermaritzburg.Organised by Ms Christina Potgieter andMs Gael Whiteley, and manned bypostgraduate students, the School’sdisplays made a substantial contribution tothe success of the overall exhibit.

“The UKZN Eulophias”, a team com-prising support staff, participated in the“Ready, Steady, Plant” competition at theshow. The team had 15 minutes to constructa 4m x 4m garden utilising plant materialunseen by the ‘gardeners’ before the clockstarted ticking.

Fun events at the Pietermaritz-burg campusThe administrative staff at the Pietermaritz-burg campus go to great lengths to boostspirit amongst staff and students in theSchool. Besides dressing up for Women’sDay, Secretary’s Day and Boss’ Day, theyactively promoted Casual Day whichencouraged a 1980s dress code. Theysucceeded in raising R400 for localcharities. Their efforts for “Women’s Day”also featured in The Natal Witness. On“Boss’ Day”, Head of School ProfessorKevin Kirkman was first treated to a break-fast in his office, taken to lunch and finallytreated to a massage session to alleviate thestresses of his onerous position. WhatSchool could wish for better service?

The ‘UKZN Eulophias’ team that parti-cipated in the ‘Ready, Steady, Plantevent: (left-right) Ms Christina Potgieter,Mr Paul Hartmann, Ms Tanya Visser(Editor of The Gardener magazine), MrsAlison Young, Mr Rogan Roth and MsGael Whiteley.

Mr Wynston Woodenberg, while MsMeagan Goveia (recent MSc graduate) andMr Vishal Bharuth (MSc student) receivedawards for poster presentations. Allawardees are members of ProfessorBerjak’s research team. Professor Berjakwas instated as the President of the ISSS atthe Congress.

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School of Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology& Plant Pathology (SASA)

MicrobiologyOn 31 October the discipline ofMicrobiology hosted the 21st Annual SouthAfrican Society for Microbiology(KwaZulu-Natal) Symposium on thePietermaritzburg campus. Fifty-twoHonours and BTech students from tertiaryinstitutions in and around KZN presentedthe findings of their final year researchprojects to 160 delegates. In his welcomingspeech the Dean, Professor John Cooke,said that he was thrilled to see so manydelegates and that microbiology wasobviously thriving in the KZN region. Theproceedings kicked off with a keynote

address by Dr Greg Watson (UKZN) whoregaled the audience with his views on real-time polymerase chain reaction ( PCR) andits potential applications. In addition todelegates from UKZN, Durban Universityof Technology and the University of Zulu-land, a number of industry representativeswere also present. Beckman-Coultergenerously sponsored six book prizes forthe best speakers in each session. FourUKZN students: Mr Richard Burgdorf(Microbiology, PMB), Miss LucretiaGovender (Microbiology, Westville), MrPetrus Masango (Plant Pathology, PMB),and Miss Daishnee Padayachee (Micro-biology, Westville) were amongst the winners.

Dr Ché in Tiannamen Square.

(left to right) Attending the Silicon in Agriculture Conference gala dinner were:Mr Habtom Tesfagiorgis, Mr Eyob Kidane, Dr Pat Caldwell, Ms Dael Visser,Professor Mark Laing, Ms Prabashnie Naidoo, Mr Nick Snaith and Mr CelestinGatahariya.

Dr Ché Pillay in BeijingGenetics Lecturer, Dr Ché Pillayattended the XIV Biennial Meeting ofthe Society for Free Radical ResearchInternational (18-22 October) inBeijing, China. He presented a posterentitled “Developing a Systems BiologyFrame-work for describing RedoxinReactions” which described recent workon the kinetic structures found within

redoxin systems. The poster was wellreceived and as a result, a number ofcollaborations with other groups arebeing explored.

Conferences:In September, Dr Setati presented a posterat the Extremophiles Conference in CapeTown, while Dr Chenia gave a talk at the9th International Symposium on Aeromonasand Plesiomonas held in Villa Real,Portugal.

Awards:On 12 September the following BScHonours and MSc students wererecognised at the BHP Billiton Achiever’sfunctions on the Pietermaritzburg andHoward College campuses: Miss AtheeshaGanesh, Miss Kovashnee Naicker, MrYushir Maharaj, Miss Aileen Naidoo andMs Ashmita Arjoon.

Ms Charlene Singh received the IvanOligivie Award for her PhD research onbiocorrosion.

Other events:Professor Bala Pillay was an invitedspeaker at the Test and Measurement 2008Conference held on 27 August inMuldersdrift. He spoke on the potential riskposed by viable-but-non-culturablepathogens in food and water. He was alsoa guest on the “Talk at Nine” evening showon 702 Talk Radio on 6 October discussing“Germs in Public Places”.

Plant Pathology organised the 4th

International Conference on Silicon inAgriculture at the Wild Coast Sun, PortEdward from 26-31 October. The con-ference, which took three years to put to-gether, was attended by over 155 inter-national delegates. It dealt with severalimportant aspects of the use of silicon inimproving crop health and productivity.Silicon is now recognised as an importantnutrient in crop production and protection.

In recent months the discipline of PlantPathology was represented at conferencesin Italy and Kenya.

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School of Bioresources Engineeringand Environmental Hydrology (BEEH)

Harvest festival celebrates four-year collaboration with rural communityThe Potshini community in Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal was the site of a joyousoccasion when the School’s Smallholder System Innovations (SSI) ResearchProgramme recently hosted a Harvest Festival for all participants. Attractingover 300 people, the event was held at the Potshini High School and included theDepartment of Agriculture, the Okhahlamba municipality, UKZN staff andresearchers and members of the local and neighbouring communities. Itcommemorated the four-year collaborative relationship between the Potshinicommunity, BEEH and UKZN’s Centre for Environment, Agriculture andDevelopment (CEAD).

The overall objective of the SSI Project is to improve rural livelihoods and securefood security in sub-Saharan Africa while safeguarding critical ecosystemfunctions. Since 2004, the Programme has established an elaborate hydrologicalmonitoring network and introduced crop production improvement techniquesutilising various water harvesting methods in the Potshini community.

Two full time PhD students, Mr Victor Kongo and Mr Job Rotich Kosgei, underthe guidance of Professors Graham Jewitt and Simon Lorentz, are involved inthe investigation of hydrological determinants and responses to potentialwidespread adoption of rainwater harvesting initiatives.

(left-right) Professor Graham Jewitt fromBEEH and Mr Michael Malinga from CEADspeak at the Harvest Festival in Potshini.

International Collaboration with the University of IllinoisStudents and staff from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) spent a month working with BEEH students aswell as interacting with staff on the UKZN campus. The group arrived in Pietermaritzburg in the second half of July andincluded 11 students and three staff members. They were accompanied by Dr Alan Hansen from the Department of Agriculturaland Biological Engineering; Dr Andrea Bohn, Assistant Dean from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and EnvironmentalSciences and Dr Laura Hahn from the Center for Teaching Excellence.

UIUC students had been partnered earlier in the year with final year BEEH students to work on five capstone engineering designprojects in teams of four to five students. The five projects were: the development of a jab planter, the design and constructionof a biomass stove, the development of a system to produce charcoal from biomass, an investigation into the use of a heat pumpin a broiler house, and the development of an experimental pond for growing micro-algae that would yield oil for conversioninto biofuel. In addition a postgraduate student in the group worked on a project aimed at treating effluent water at a crocodilefarm. Professor Jeff Smithers and Mr Louis Lagrange played a key role in facilitating the arrangements for the institutionalstudent and staff collaboration.

This is the third visit with a group of UIUC students led by Dr Hansen, a former staff member of the School of BEEH. Apartfrom his participation in a teaching enhancement seminar during this visit, he was involved in discussions with the Schoolregarding the United States’ accreditation process. He also made a presentation entitled “Transportation energy solutions: a USperspective” at a meeting of the local branch of the South African Institute of Agricultural Engineers held on the Pietermaritzburgcampus. Dr Hansen’s research focuses on the investigation of biofuels for diesel engines.

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School of Chemistry

Comings and goingsAt the end of July, after 16 years ofdedicated service to the University, Mr BretParel a senior technician on the Westvillecampus resigned and relocated to Canada.At the beginning of October, another seniortechnician, Ms Ria Ramdhaney left theSchool’s Westville campus after 10 yearsof loyal service. The school wishes Bretand Ria well in their future endeavours.

AwardsProfessor Orde Munro from the Pieter-maritzburg campus was awarded the 2008Raikes Medal by the South AfricanChemical Institute. This award is for achemist, under the age of 40 on 31 Marchin the year of the award, whose originalwork shows outstanding promise. Therecipient’s research must have beenconducted in South Africa.

Mr Siphamandla Hadebe won one of thefive highly coveted national SASOL SouthAfrican Chemical Institute Postgraduatemedals for his PhD work with Dr RossRobinson. His research focuses on the useof boron to effect novel reactions in organicchemistry. Mr Hadebe has co-authored fourpublications in ISI-rated internationaljournals.

Mr Ashwin Manival won one of ninenational James Moir Medals awarded bythe SA Chemical Institute for top per-formance in Chemistry Honours.

CongratulationsCongratulations to Dr Sooboo Singh whorecently obtained his doctorate. His thesisis entitled, “Catalyzed partial oxidation ofpentane and hexane over vanadium oxidessupported on calcium and cobalthydroxyapatites”.

Visit by the ministerThe Minister of Science and Technology,Dr Mosibudi Mangena, opened the Scienceand Technology Education Centre on 10

October. He visited the School ofChemistry where he was shown the newresearch facilities and interacted with theresearch students. He was impressed withthe facilities and commented that today’sstudents are very lucky to have access tosuch equipment. While on his tour,Mangena stuck a pin into the School’sdiversity map which displays theinternational training of staff and showswhere Chemistry’s postgraduate studentscome from. A new category of pins forministers that have visited the School isnow needed!

Diversity map in the School of Chemistry.

Dr Sooboo Singh in Korea

Conferences and meetingsDr Neil Koorbanally attended the 7th JointMeeting of several phytochemical societiesin Athens, Greece from the 3-8 August. Hepresented a poster entitled: Noveltriterpenoids from South African Bersamaspecies.

Dr Sooboo Singh attended the 14th

International Congress on Catalysis inSeoul, Korea from 13-18 July. The title ofhis presentation was: “Partial oxidation ofpentane using VPO supported on calciumhydroxyapatite”.

Professor Deo Jaganyi, Dr Ross Robinsonand Dr Nontokoza Xaba attended theIMEBORON XIII Conference in Gerona,Spain. The conference focused on thechemistry and applications of boron and itscompounds.

New Bruker EMX-plusSpectrometer for Pietermaritz-burg campusA new electron spin resonance spectro-meter (ESR), recently installed on thePietermaritzburg campus, is fullyoperational and is currently working on avariety of chemical and biological samples.The instrument has a liquid helium cryostatfor measurement from 4k upwards as wellas electrochemical, photolysis and flowcells for a range of chemical and biologicalexperiments.

The spectrometer was funded by the NRFand UKZN through a successful NationalEquipment Grant Proposal (NEP) writtenby Professor Orde Munro. It will greatlyenhance the competitiveness of researchersin the chemistry and biochemistry fields.The School gratefully acknowledges thegenerous support of the University and theNRF for this instrument.

(left-right) Professor Deo Jaganyi, DrRoss Robinson and Dr Nontokoza Xabain Spain.

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School of Computer Science

New LogoThe School recently embarked on thechallenge of designing a new School Logo.Many different designs were submitted bystaff and students and, after muchdeliberation, the School finally chose a newlogo (see above). A feature of the logo isthat the binary code spells “SOCS UKZN”.

Students excel at annual ACM Programming competition

The School competed in the Africanfinals of the 10th annual ACMInternational Programming Com-petition on 11 October. Fifteen teamsfrom UKZN competed againststudents from other major uni-

versities in South Africa, as well asagainst students from Nigeria, Beninand other African countries. Afterfive hours of gruelling problemsolving, the top team from UKZNwas placed 5th overall.

Professor Hugh Murrell onsabbaticalProfessor Murrell recently returned froman extensive trip to Japan and Europe wherehe visited various universities and researchinstitutions. His first stop was TohokuUniversity where he interacted withProfessor Kazuo Hashimoto in hispostgraduate pattern recognition researchlaboratory. He then attended IMS2008 inMaastricht where he presented a paper onSupport Vector Machine applications. Thiswas followed by a visit, organised byProfessor Milan Hajek, to the departmentof Computing and Control Engineering inthe Faculty of Chemical Engineering at theInstitute of Chemical Technology inPrague, Czeck Republic. Here he delivereda talk entitled: “Modelling in Teaching andResearch”. A highlight of ProfessorMurrell’s sabbatical was time spent at theMax Planck Institute for EvolutionaryAnthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Theinstitute is famous for producing the firstsequence of the Neanderthal genome.

To balance his core research activities,Professor Murrell then visited theUniversity of Sheffield’s “Learning andTeaching Exchange” where he was suitablyimpressed by the models used to deliveronline help in common problem areas.Before returning to UKZN, ProfessorMurrell stopped off in Cape Town wherehe ran a one-week intensive course onMachine Learning for bioinformaticsstudents.

The UKZN team (left-right): Ms Deerasha Singh, Mr Nadeem Vawda andMr Richard Abell, with Head Coach, Ms Rosanne Els.

Dr Nelishia Pillay wins best paper award

Dr Nelishia Pillay and one of her postgraduate students recently attendedthe Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientistsand Information Technologists (SAICSIT) where they both presented peerreviewed papers. Dr Pillay was presented with a best paper award for herpaper, “An Analysis of Representations for Hyper-Heuristics for theUncapacitated Examination Timetabling Problem in a Genetic ProgrammingSystem”. Dr Pillay has published extensively in the area of examinationtimetabling and was placed fifth in an examination timetabling track of theInternational Timetabling Competition earlier this year.

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School of Environmental Sciences

Doctoral student, Mr Elfatih MohamedAbdel-Rahman recently at-tended theinternational SPIE Europe Remote SensingConference held in Cardiff, UK inSeptember. The conference attracted about600 people from countries around theglobe. SPIE Europe conferences aim toshare the latest research in remote sensingtechniques and applications. Abdel-Rahman presented a paper entitled“Imaging spectroscopy for estimatingsugarcane leaf nitrogen concentration” atthe session of crop yield monitoring usingremote sensing. This paper is published inthe Proceedings of Remote Sensing forAgriculture, Ecosystems and Hydrology Xvolume 7104 and will also be publishedonline on the SPIE Digital Library. Abdel-Rahman’s presentation was well receivedespecially by presenters from China, Japanand Italy who are conducting similarresearch.

The Student Geography Conference heldin the first week of September took placeat the University of Cape Town. The

(left- right): UKZN Geography students: Ms Humayrah Bassa, Ms Zaakira Bassaand Ms Meggan Lewis.

conference was attended by approxi-mately 150 students representinguniversities from all over South Africa.UKZN’s discipline of Geography wasrepresented by eight Honours students.Ms Meggan Lewis was awarded firstplace in the Physical Geographycategory for her topic entitled: “Carbonoffsets through forest rejuvenation: Acase study of the Ferncliffe Nature

Reserve”. Ms Zaakira Bassa took thesecond prize in the Human Geographycategory for her presentation entitled:“Resident perceptions of the 2010 FIFAWorld Cup and stadium development inDurban, South Africa”, while MsHumayrah Bassa, was placed third in theHuman Geography category for her paperentitled: “A Gendered Analysis of LandRelations and Power Dynamics in Inanda.”

Ms Diana Sibanda, one of Dr Helen Watson’s MSc students,presented a paper entitled “GIS mapping of areas suitable forvarious biofuel crops in SADC countries” at the AlternativeFuels Conference hosted by the National Fossil FuelFoundation on 12 June in Johannesburg. Ms Sibanda has beenawarded the COMPETE African postgraduate bursary and willcarry out research at Imperial College in London.

Dr Helen Watson participated in the Scientific Committee on Problems in the Environment(SCOPE) meeting in Gummersbach, Germany from 22-26 September. She contributedto three chapters of the book entitled RAP Biofuels: Environmental Consequences andInteractions with Changing Land Use. Dr Watson also presented at the InternationalWorkshop on Bioenergy Policies for Sustainable Development in Africa from 25-27November in Bamako, Mali.

Ms Diana Sibanda.

Centre for Environmental Management (CEM)The Centre is involved in an interesting newproject. Ms Catherine Oleofse andProfessor Dianne Scott are putting togethera Social Baseline Study of South Durban.The Study will eventually inform a broaderplanning initiative by the eThekwiniMunicipality for the South Durban area. MrPatrick Martel and Ms SibongileMaphumulo, as well as a group of under-

graduate and postgraduate students areassisting with the research for this project.

Short CourseGeography on the Pietermaritzburg campushosted a GIS short course (Introduction toGIS for Spatial Data Analysis and DecisionSupport) from 17-21 November for

approximately 32 delegates. The coursecovered a range of theoretical and practicalaspects including GIS technology andapplication.

Collaborative PartnershipsProfessor Heinz Beckedahl, Ms DayleTrotter (both from UKZN) and Mr SaicoSingwane (University of Swaziland)recently visted Halle in Germany as partof a project that is being funded by theGerman Academic Exchange Service(DAAD) until 2011. It forms part of athree- way collaborative partnershipbetween the Martin Luther Universityin Halle, the University of Swazilandand UKZN. The focus of this collabo-ration is the scientific understandingof the soil erosion challenges facingthe southern African region, andcurriculum development in this fieldat the Honours and Masters levels.

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Centre for Environment, Agriculture& Development (CEAD)

CEAD’s Protected Area Management(PAM) Distance Learning Programme wasrecently named the joint winner of the 2008National Association of Distance Educationand Open Learning in South Africa(NADEOSA) Award. The Centre sharedthe award with the University of SouthAfrica. The Biennial Courseware Awardrecognises excellence and creativity inteaching and learning in open and distancecontexts. The 2008 theme was Collabo-rative Relationship in the Design andDelivery of Courseware Designed byEducational Institutions. Submissions for

Courseware award recognises PAM distance learning programme

the award could include relationshipswithin or across institutions, within SouthAfrica or across countries.

The new distance learning PAM Pro-gramme was developed jointly by CEAD,the International Centre for Land ProtectedLandscapes (ICPL) and the University ofWales. It is one of three streams in thecoursework Masters Degree in Environ-ment and Development.

The Darwin Initiative, a UK governmentprogramme that supports UK academic and

professional links with partner institutionsoverseas, provided crucial funding andsupport. Mrs Fiona Bulman of theUniversity’s Open Learning Programmewas instrumental in designing the structureof the programme.

The NADEOSA award is the first publicrecognition of the PAM Programme whichhas involved five years of tenacious workand patience from a team of staff andexternal contributors.

The Centre recently walked off with oneof four prestigious Global Best Awards.Conferred by the InternationalPartnership Network in co-operationwith the Conference Board of Canada,the award recognises CEAD and itspartners for their joint contribution toenabling economic developmentthrough enterprise and livelihoodinterventions and, particularly, forempowering rural women in business.The award was presented at aconference in Helsinki, Finland inSeptember.

An evolving and expanding partnershiphas been established between CEAD,the Zulu Agricultural Central CreditUnion and Cooperative (ZACCUC),Inina Craft Agency (Inina) and theKwaZulu-Natal Department ofEconomic Development (KZN DED) inSouth Africa. Canadian partners includethe Masai Centre for Local, Regionaland Global Health (Masai Centre) andthe University of Guelph (UoG).Funding partners include the EuropeanUnion, the Ford Foundation and the Carland Emily Fuchs Foundation.

International Award for CEAD

Mr Duncan Hay of CEAD and Dr Anne-Marie Zajdlick of the Masai Centrereceive the Global Best Award from Dr John Volmink, (centre) Chair of theInternational Partnership Network.

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School of Geological Sciences

Staff newsProfessor Mike Watkeys and DrMolla Demlie visited Lumbumbashiin the DRC from 19-22 October. Thetrip was in connection with thetripartite agreement between UKZN,the University of Lumbumbashi(UniLu) and the University of Liege(ULg), Belgium. Together withProfessor Jean Frenay (ULg) andProfessor Pierre Kalanga (UniLu)they met with various representativesof the academic community, miningindustry and civil administration. Theobjective was to ascertain thepriorities with regards to the appliedsciences (i.e. geology, engineeringand the environment) in order toassist with capacity building andresearch projects at Lumbumbashi.Having listened to the opinions ofindividuals ranging from the Ministerof Mines and the Rector of UniLu tothe miners, topics for short courseshave been established and researchprojects initiated.

Professor John Dunlevey was onsabbatical leave for eight weeks atthe beginning of the second semesterto facilitate research on themineralogy of modern and ancientheavy mineral deposits. As part ofthis research, he visited theMineralogy Section of the NaturalHistory Museum in London wherethe microanalysis and radiometricdating of monazite grains extractedfrom heavy mineral-rich sediment ofKwaZulu-Natal was undertaken.

Congratulations to Mr Andrew Greenwho has been awarded a PhD for hisdissertation entitled “The marinegeology of the northern KwaZulu-Natal continental shelf, South Africa,SW Indian Ocean”. A major focuswas the role played by increasedoffshore sediment delivery during the

Pliocene. It sculpted the canyonfeatures within which the SouthAfrican coelacanth is found.

The School will be saying farewellto two long-standing colleagues,Professors Colin Jermy and KuiwuLiu. Colin joined the formerUniversity of Natal as a lecturer inEngineering Geology in 1980 andhas been indispensable in the runningof engineering geology at UND andUKZN. Colin will be taking hiswealth of expertise to industry.Kuiwu joined the Department ofGeology of the former University ofDurban-Westville in 1992 and hasbeen an integral member of staffspecialising in the fields ofSedimentary Geology and MiningGeology. Kuiwu will be working inthe petroleum industry in China. TheSGS wishes Colin and Kuiwu thevery best in their new ventures.

A belated welcome to Dr KarenTaslagyan, appointed as a lecturer ingeotechnical engineering. Karencompleted his PhD in 2006 at theInstitute of Geological Sciences atthe National Academy of Sciences ofArmenia where he continued to workuntil joining the School in October2007.

ResearchDr Maria Ovechkina (post-doctoralresearcher in the Marine GeoscienceUnit) and Professor Mike Watkeyspresented two papers at the BiennialConference of the PalaeontologySociety of South Africa (PSSA)which was held from 11-14September in Matjiesfontein,Western Cape. The Best Poster of theConference Award was awarded toone of their collaborative studies

involving Mr Warren Kretzinger, aMSc student in the School of Geo-logical Sciences: Nannoplanktons inthe manganese deposits of theMozambique Ridge andMozambique Basin, SW IndianOcean. The next conference of thePSSA will take place in 2010 inKZN. It will be convened byProfessor Mike Watkeys and DrMike Mostovski (Natal Museum,Pietermaritzburg).

Postgraduate newsMr Warren Kretzinger and ProfessorMike Watkeys visited the AlfredWegener Institute for Polar andMarine Research (AWI) inBremerhaven, Germany from 27October to 7 November. This tripwas in connection with a projectjointly funded by the NRF and theInternational Bureau of the GermanMinistry of Education. Together withcolleagues at AWI and the Universityof Kiel, they are using a number ofgeological, geophysical andgeochemical techniques to examinethe Mozambique Ridge which lies300-500 km offshore of KZN. Theaim is to establish the nature of theridge and its economic potentialwhich has important geopoliticalimplications. Currently SouthAfrica’s territorial waters extend 370km from the coast and include partof the ridge. However, as with allother countries with “oceanfrontage”, there is the possibility ofextending this Exclusive EconomicZone to 670 km. The claim has to besubmitted by 13 May 2009 to theUnited Nations Commission on theLimits of the Continental Shelf. Ifsuccessful, the whole MozambiqueRidge will belong to South Africa.

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School of Mathematical Sciences

This year, UKZN’s School of Mathematical Sciences hosted the South African Mathematical Society’s (SAMS) AnnualConference. Held in the Desmond Clarence Building on the Howard College campus, the conference took place from 5-7November. Acting DVC for Research, Knowledge Production and Partnerships, Professor Johan Jacobs, officially openedthe 51st Annual Conference and welcomed all delegates to the University.

The conference attracted over 120 papers from mathematicians from all over South Africa and topics varied from applicationsof mathematics to industry and pure mathematics to mathematics education. There were six invited speakers, including twofrom Italy: Professor J Banasiak (UKZN): Between real life, mathematical model and its analysis: what can go wrong ;Professor S Baratella (Universita di Trento): A working tool called Nonstandard Analysis; Professor N Bishop (UNISA):Gravitational Radiation; Ms B Goba (AMESA, UKZN): Researching mathematics education in the post-apartheid SouthAfrica:The content challenge; Professor C Procesi (Universita di Roma): From splines to index theorem; Dr S Sibisi(CSIR):Mathematics and industry: A need for some fresh thinking

The success of the conference was due to the hard work of the organising committee which comprised Professors D Baboolal(Head of School), J Banasiak, E Bruning (Chair), M Henning, P Sibanda and Drs P Gosh and S Moopanar.

School of Physics

Staff NewsDr HanningtonOyoko retired atthe end of Juneafter five years atthe former UDWand UKZN. Hereturned to Kenya,his native country.After just one yearof lecturing, DrR o s h e nMoorgawa hasdecided to returnto Mauritius at theend of the year.

The School was saddened by the death of Professor Glynn Davies in October.Professor Davies was appointed to the former University of Natal inPietermaritzburg as a lecturer in 1969, and although he retired in 1996, he was stillactively teaching up until 2007. Glynn is remembered particularly for his flair inusing innovative demonstrations to liven up lectures. He received a DistinguishedTeachers’ Award in 1994.

The Centre for Quantum Technology(CQT) has been very active over the pastsix months. The Centre, under theleadership of Professor FrancescoPetruccione, was recently identified as theNational Quantum Information ScienceResearch Niche Area by the NationalResearch Foundation within theInstitutional Research DevelopmentProgramme. Quantum InformationProcessing and Communications (QIPC)has also been identified as an emergingtechnology in the National PhotonicsInitiative. The Centre investigates boththeoretical and experimental aspects ofQIPC, and its primary research withinQIPC is the development of a QuantumKey Distribution (QKD) device, therealisation of quantum networks andtheoretical studies into open quantumsystems. Further information can be foundat http://quantum.ukzn.ac.za.

Professor Glynn Davies performs his physics show at oneof the University’s Open Days.

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Four of the five members of the Centre for Quantum Technology team who tookpart in the KPMG Business Relay: (left-right) Francesco Petruccione, Dr ClementPellegrini, Mr Abdul Mirza and Mr Magnus Rehn.

In July, MSc student Mr Viroshan Naickerwas awarded a Commonwealth CambridgeShared Scholarship to read for the nine-month Certificate of Advanced Study inApplied Mathematics at the University ofCambridge.

Professor Francesco Petruccione was theguest speaker at the FFS Expo for YoungScientists held in the Sports Centre on theWestville Campus in August. The title ofhis talk to the 400 budding scientists was“Doing Research for the fun of it”. At theComputer Society of South Africa galaevent held at the Albert Luthuli ICCDurban, Professor Petruccione was named“IT Personality of the Year” for KwaZulu-Natal.

Dr Clement Pellegrini recently joined theCQT as a postdoctoral student aftercompleting his PhD at the University ofLyon. Dr Pellegrini was awarded the prizeof the French Fondation EADS for the bestPhD thesis of 2008 in the section‘Mathematics and Interactions’.

The CQT exhibited some of the latestquantum technologies at the InternationalScience, Innovation and TechnologyExhibition 2008 (INSITE08) held from 15-

17 September at the Sandton ConventionCentre.

In October, SAVANT, an initiative of theDepartment of Trade and Industry (dti),arranged for a group of internationaljournalists to visit the CQT as part of anational ICT tour. The group included ICTjournalists from the UK, USA, Brazil,Singapore and South Africa, as well asrepresentatives of the dti.

The CQT took part in the KPMG BusinessRelay on 1 November. Each member of the

Durban: SmartCity = QuantumCityThe CQT is a major partner in the Durban SmartCity initiative.As part of this initiative eThekwini Municipality has recentlycompleted the installation of a fibre optic network connectingseveral strategic nodes in the city. eThekwini’s concept of theSmartCity has taken a ‘quantum leap’ with the implementation ofquantum security over this network. This secure means ofcommunication, through Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), isbeing developed by the CQT. As Professor Petruccione explains,“This shifts the security of cryptographic protocols frommathematical complexities to the intrinsic physical behaviour ofquantum particles. Thus the security is upheld through the lawsof quantum mechanics”. The QuantumCity project is led by theCQT and the Innovation Company of UKZN in partnership withidQuantique and Senetas Corporation, leading companies inquantum and classical encryption. The project is funded byeThekwini Municipality and the Innovation Fund. Thesedevelopments were reported and demonstrated at the DurbanSmartCity Conference and Exhibition held at the Albert LuthuliICC Durban on 1-2 October.

(left-right) MSc student, Mr Abdul Mirza and ProfessorFrancesco Petruccione testing some of the newly arrivedequipment which is due to be deployed as part of the DurbanQuantumCity project.

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team (Professor Francesco Petruccione, DrClement Pellegrini, Mr Magnus Rehn, MrIsmail Akhalwaya and Mr Abdul Mirza) ranone lap of the 5 km course. The team endedup 151st out of 345 teams, with a total timeof 2:25:56, not a bad achievement for ‘first-timers’.

At the Faculty of Science & AgriculturePostgraduate Research Day on 4 Novem-ber, PhD student Mr Ismail Akhalwaya wasawarded first prize for his presentationentitled “The bandwidth of a noisy quantumchannel with memory.”

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School of Statistics & ActuarialScience

Statistics Talk for Departmentof Education at STECProfessor Delia North, Head of The Schoolof Statistics and Actuarial Science,continues to provide desperately neededassistance to the Department of Education’s(DOE) KZN subject advisors in Mathe-matics. On 6 June, a group of 24 DOEMathematics subject advisors attended aworkshop which covered key aspects of thedata handling content of the NationalSenior Certificate’s optional paper three.

The STEC Centre was the perfect venuefor the workshop and all participants wereunanimous in their praise for the workshopcontent and venue. The DOE Subjectadvisors, some of whom came from as farafield as Newcastle, were very appreciativeof the opportunity to upgrade theirstatistical knowledge. This was a goodopportunity to showcase the STEC centreand to spread the news that UKZN hasmany opportunities to offer matricgraduates.

Dr Henri Moolman’s sabbati-cal leave to Europe and BritainAt the beginning of May Dr HenriMoolman left on a three month visit toEurope and Britain. The purpose of the visitwas to obtain information on appliedstatistics consultation and research con-ducted at European and British universities.A total of 20 universities were visited andmany interviews with leading appliedstatisticians were conducted. Some of themain points emerging from these interviewswere:

As a rule, theoretical and appliedstatistics are not located in the samedepartment.Statistical methods are mainly used inbiostatistics and economic applications.Applied statistics involves people fromdifferent disciplines working togetheron a project. Effective communicationbetween statisticians and otherscientists is very important to ensuresuccess in such projects.

School participants at the Faculty Fun Run.

For the second consecutive year, an Honours student fromthe School of Statistics and Actuarial Science claimed FirstPrize in the 2007-2008 South African Statistics AssociationNational Honours Project Competition.

Mr Jordache Ramjith, who is currently registered for aMasters degree in Statistics, joins last year’s winner, MrNishay Vithal, as the worthy recipient of this award. Supervised by Professor GlendaMathews, Mr Ramjith’s project focused on the Cox Proportional-Hazards RegressionModel, considered the most widely used method of survival analysis.

Head of the School, Professor Delia North, said that the competition provides a usefulyardstick by which to judge the high standard of UKZN’s Honours’ projects – testimonyto the local population that they “need not rush off to far away institutions to get a goodeducation”. Professor North added, “We are all very proud of the excellent work done inour School as we are making a mark nationally. Professor Matthews in particular hasbeen very active in the field of biostatistics, supervising many excellent PhD, MSc andhonours projects using data from the MRC and CAPRISA”.

Mr Jordache Ramjith.

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Faculty Fun Run at UkulingaThe School won the prize for best proportional representation at the Faculty’sannual fun run. The prize was a box of chocolates!

Teaching of statistics has traditionallyfocused on core (mathematical) andservice courses. There is a growingneed for teaching short, computer-based courses to researchers, post-graduate students and business people.In statistical education there is toomuch emphasis on explainingmethodology followed by an exampleand too little on starting with a problemfollowed by asking the correctquestions that lead to the correctmethodology.

Statistics Student Scoops First Prize.

WorkshopsOn 22 and 23 September Dr HenriMoolman presented a SPSS workshophosted by the UKZN College of HealthSciences Women in Leadership andLeverage (WILL) programme.