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Pura Mgolombane, Dean: Student Affairs
Welcome to the University of the Free State! This is an opportunity to enjoy yourself and have the best years of your life. This is the message from Pura Mgolombane, Dean: Student Affairs at the University of the Free State, to new first-year students.
About 7900 new first-year students will start their study journey at the UFS this year, and Pura has some advice for the new Kovsies.
WATCH: Message from Pura Mgolombane, Dean: Student Affairs
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’.