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20 December 2020
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Story Thabo Kessah
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Mbuyiselwa Moloi with student volunteers, Keamogetswe Mooketsi (presenter), Tshumelo Phaladi (producer), and Siphamandla Shabangu (SRC member – Social Justice and Universal Access).
The month of October 2020 marked the first anniversary of the Qwaqwa Campus online student radio, Q-Lit. “It has been a rocky road of sleepless nights, tears, and a lot of challenges. However, we have grown from strength to strength. We have made dreams of ordinary students possible. We have influenced change and inspired students to tap into their talents and potential,” said an elated station manager, Mbuyiselwa Moloi.
The station came in handy during the worst lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic when it bridged the communication gap between students and the university to integrate teaching and learning into the programming to ensure that no student was left behind. “With all of the regulations and online learning, Q-Lit had to be reinvented. While it was not an easy journey, we have grown more than ever before. Our August 2020 report shows that we have pulled in more than 1 600 listeners, even amid the learning, unlearning, and relearning processes. It was during this month that we also ran a series highlighting strategic offices led by women on campus as part of our Women’s Month celebration,” Mbuyiselwa revealed.
Looking to the future, the station hopes to obtain a full broadcasting licence from the regulatory body, the Independent Communication Authority of South Africa (ICASA), soon.
Prof Dejene’s inaugural lecture to focus on light energy
2016-05-05
Prof Francis Dejene
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The Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Prof Danie Vermeulen, and the Assistant Dean, Dr Tom Ashafa, will be hosting the inaugural lecture of Prof Francis B Dejene on Friday 6 May 2016 at 17:00 in the New Science Building Auditorium on the Qwaqwa Campus.
Prof Dejene, a Professor of Physics in the areas of solar energy and phosphor, is a National Research Foundation C3-rated researcher with more than 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals as well as more than 1 000 citations in author references. He has also made more than 100 national and international conference contributions. Prof Dejene has also acted as a reviewer of about 15 international and national professional journals and has supervised more than 25 MSc and PhD students.
The subject of the lecture will be ‘Light energy in service of mankind – from nanoscale to microscale’.