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Kovsie Advice: Achieving your goals is possible

04 September 2019 | Story Rulanzen Martin | Photo Sonia Small

With the second semester well underway, you may feel overwhelmed by the academic pressure and you aren’t sure how to find your way out of this maze. Some first-years are still trying to cope with the hectic academic workload, and our soon to be graduates are contemplating how they will find their feet in the post-university world.

The new edition of Kovsie Advice by the Advising Team in the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) would like to help you get ready for the busy academic times ahead. But they would also like to dedicate this edition to helping you align your tasks and efforts with the end goal – that dream job!

In this edition, ideas and resources are shared to help you align your academic journey with your career aspirations.

Enjoy the journey!
The UFS Advising team

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André Roodt leads European Crystallographic Association

2012-08-30

Prof. André Roodt, newly-elected ECA president.
30 August 2012

Prof. André Roodt, Chairperson of the Department of Chemistry, made history in being elected as the first non-European president of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA). He was elected as the new president of the ECA for 2012-2015 at the 27th European Crystallographic Meeting held in Bergen, Norway, recently.

Other members of the current Executive Committee are from the UK, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Russia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The ECA’s national membership includes more than 40 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and covers research on all aspect of pure and applied crystallography, including intersections with biology, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, chemistry and materials science.

It is the first time since its inception more than 40 years ago the ECA has a non-European president, and in particular the first one from Africa.

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