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25 April 2022
Photo Jan van der Walt
From the left are Eduan du Plessis (Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and recipient of the SAIPA Prize for Best BCom third year student in Accounting), Johanco Viljoen (Bachelor of Science: Botany and Zoology), Louis van der Walt (Bachelor of Accounting), and Thinus Greyling (Bachelor of Commerce: Investment Management and Banking).
Seventeen years of friendship, with four degrees among them. This is what friends Eduan du Plessis, Johanco Viljoen, Louis van der Walt, and Thinus Greyling celebrated during the University of the Free State’s April graduation ceremony. The four friends – who started their academic careers together at Grey Pre-Primary in 2006 and matriculated at Grey College in 2018 – obtained qualifications during the graduation ceremonies of the faculties of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and Economic and Management Sciences.
UFS awards honorary doctorate to chemist
2008-04-16
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The degree Doctor Scientiae (honoris causa) was awarded to Prof. Daneel Ferreira this week during the autumn graduation ceremony of the University of the Free State (UFS) on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein. Prof. Ferreira was honoured with an honorary doctorate for his significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry. Prof. Ferreira, a former professor in organic chemistry at the UFS, is professor and chair of Pharmacognosy in the School of Pharmacology at the University of Mississippi, United States of America (USA), as well as research chair of the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at that university. Attending the chancellor's dinner were, from the left: Prof. Frederick Fourie, Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ferreira, and Prof. Herman van Schalkwyk, Dean: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the UFS.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
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