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28 June 2022
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Story Nonsindiso Qwabe
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Photo ALBERT VAN BILJON
In conversation: Prof Petersen and Leanne Manas.
An outward-looking, globally competitive university that ranks among the top-tier universities in South Africa and on the continent, driven by a strong human-centred, diverse social-justice approach. This is at the heart of the vision
Prof Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS, shared with multi-award-winning
news anchor
Leanne Manas during a sit-down conversation on Friday 22 July 2022.
Prof Petersen reflected on the great strides and difficulties faced during his first term, as well as navigating the UFS through the COVID-19 pandemic to position the institution in a strategic and focused manner as a university of choice on the continent
and in other parts of the globe.
Prof Prakash Naidoo, Vice-Rector: Operations, introduced Leanne Manas
Prof Francis Petersen
Leanne Manas and Prof Petersen In conversation
Leanne Manas
Leanne Manas meeting our staff members.
Leanne Manas meeting our staff members.
Leanne Manas meeting our staff members.
Prof Petersen with some of our staff members
From the left; Prof Prakash Naidoo, Leanne Manas, Prof Francis Petersen and Temba Hlasho, Executive Director: Student Affairs
Leanne Manas meeting our staff members.
From the left; Prof Prakash Naidoo, Prof Francis Petersen and Quinton Koetaan, Senior Director; HRA
Leanne Manas meeting our staff members.
Rotary awards UFS academic
2008-03-14
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Rotarians of the Bloemfontein Rotary Club, associated with the UFS, celebrated the Rotary Foundation’s Peace and Conflict Award for 2008 to Prof. Heidi Hudson with some previous rotary awardees at the university. Prof. Hudson is the Departmental Chairperson of the Department of Political Science. From the left are, front: Mr Arthur Johnson (UFS Research Administration), Prof. Hudson, Mr David Yuill (Rotarian, Goldblatt Yuill Architects, also former Head of the Department of Architecture), Mr Jock Murray (Rotarian and retired head of the Department of Occupational Therapy); back: Prof. Peter Holmes (Rotarian and Head of the Department of Geography), Prof. Johan Grobbelaar (Department of Plant Sciences and previous Rotary Foundation Group study exchange member), Prof. Frederick Fourie (Rector and Vice-Chancellor and previous Rotary Foundation Scholar to Harvard) Prof. Maitland Seaman (Rotarian and Head of the Centre for Environmental Management), and Dr Jack Armour (former Rotarian and from the Department of Agricultural Economics).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
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