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16 March 2021 | Story Lacea Loader

All academic activities have been suspended on all UFS campuses from 17 to 22 March 2021. No online/face-to-face lectures/tests/assignments will take place until 23 March 2021, and the full academic programme will resume on this date.
This decision will allow the university management an opportunity to address outstanding matters regarding the admission of senior undergraduate students.
Administrative activities will continue during this time and the campuses are not closed. The university management is aware that sporadic disruptions of activities by small groups are still taking place on the Bloemfontein Campus.
 
Protection Services, with the assistance of private security, remains on high alert and is closely monitoring the situation on the campuses. The necessary safety and security plan, as well as contingency plans, are in place.
 

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Young UFS scientist wins international award
2010-10-29

 Prof. Martin Ntwaeaborwa

The thin films division of the American Vacuum Society (AVS) selected Prof. Martin Ntwaeaborwa from the Department of Physics at the University of the Free State (UFS) as the 2010 awardee of the Paul Holloway Young Investigator Award.

Prof. Ntwaeaborwa has been given the award for novel work in the field of nanostructured luminescent materials, the optical properties of nanoparticles and photovoltaic applications. The award is named after Prof. Paul H. Holloway of the University of Florida who has a distinguished and continuing career of scholarship and service to the AVS.

 The nominee must be a young scientist or engineer who has contributed outstanding theoretical and experimental work in an area important to the Thin Film Division of AVS.

 

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