Activities

Other activities  -  NAS Transformation Desk  2018:
 

• Department of Physics - An undergraduate student working with Prof Chris Theron is developing the first two posters in a series profiling African physicists
• Department of Physics has proposed a glossary of physics terms project to the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP)
   
• Department of Statistics - Merging of client view of transformation versus company view of transformation (student vs institution)
   
• Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology - Funding for previously disadvantaged students and industry partners have been identified who will provide bursaries (CGIS is helping three students).
• Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology - South African Weather Services (SAWS) is funding Meteorology students (second year (1), third years and honours)
   
• ​Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) - has a a formal programme with the University of Venda, through the  Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB). They have a shortage of supervisory capacity and research equipment, access to literature, etc. FABI supports them through co-supervision of some of their students to share our experience and help add to their capacity. They also use FABI facilities for some of their work.  
• FABI also runs a mentorship programme for undergraduate students (which led to the University undergraduate mentorship programme), predominantly targeting Black, Indian and Coloured students, that connects an undergraduate student to a postgraduate student - getting them in contact with the research environment, with payment that adds to their financial security. 
   
• Transformation and development in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
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