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Student Affairs host future UFS leaders during leadership conference
2018/2019 student leaders gather in the EBW Auditorium for the annual Leadership Conference
Newly elected 2018/2019 Kovsie student leaders, comprising the Student Representative Council (SRC), Residence Councils (RC), and Residence Assistants (RA), gathered in the EBW Auditorium for training during the annual Student Leadership Conference. This year’s conference was also privileged to be joined by the South Campus SRC members.

The Director: Student Affairs, Dr WP Wahl, kicked off the programme with a session highlighting the importance of creating value-driven communities. Pulane Malefane, Assistant Director: Residence Life, spoke about student leaders fulfilling their roles and responsibilities as RC and RA representatives.

The Dean of Student Affairs, Pura Mgolombane, delivered a presentation based on The Role of Student Leadership as Aligned to the Student Affairs Strategic Plan, Pedagogies and Policies. Students also enjoyed an inspirational talk about Lessons in Leadership: What Leadership Taught Me presented by UFS Council member, David Abbey. 

 
The conference concluded with a delightful dinner and networking session for Kovsie’s future leaders.

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Student’s study accepted in top anti-microbiotic journal
2008-10-28

 

Part of the study of Ruan Els, 'n M.Sc. student at the University of the Free State’s (UFS) Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology was recently accepted for publication in one of the top anti-microbiotic journals, "Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy". With this he became the first M.Sc. student at the UFS whose research as first author is published in such a high-impact journal. The part that was published is about a possible way of improving the functioning of drugs that kill fungi which cause diseases in humans. By combining the drug with a fatty acid, less of the drugs that can sometimes be poisonous to humans, can be added to kill the fungus. Here he is with his study leader, Dr Carlien Pohl.
Photo: Lacea Loader

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