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31 October 2023
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Story Mosa Mofokeng
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To inform, inspire, motivate, and connect!
These are the outcomes that the UFS Department of Alumni Relations wants to achieve through its Alumni Career Connect engagement series.
The series connects pre-alumni with leading alumni who have experience as leaders in various careers, entrepreneurship, personal and professional success.
The content and themes further aim to prepare pre-alumni for the world of work and life beyond graduation.
Dr Roy Jankielsohn is the Leader of the Official Opposition in the Free State Legislature and the DA Free State Provincial Leader. Formerly a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at UFS (1995-2000), he was a Member of Parliament (2000-2006) during which he served as the DA’s Spokesperson on Defence and Safety and Security (Policing).
Join us as we experience Dr Jankielsohn’s personal and professional success.
Date: Thursday, 09 November 2023
Time: 12:00 to 13:00
Venue: Multilingualism Building (Bloemfontein Campus) and Senate Hall (Qwaqwa Campus)
UFS professor receives prestigious Science Award
2012-01-31
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President Jacob Zuma is congratulating the Kovsies Prof. Maryke Labuschage after she received an award from the African Union for her selfless contrubution to sciene in Africa. Prof. Labuschagne attended the award ceremony in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia last week.
Photo: Jacoline Prinsloo
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The African Union awarded an international award to Maryke Labuschagne, a professor in Plant Breeding at our Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, for her contribution to science in Africa.
Prof. Labuschagne received the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Scientific award in the category Life Sciences – Continental level. This is the highest level of this prestigious award programme.
Prof. Labuschagne has been part of the UFS for the past 23 years. Over the last 20 years she has been involved in training and educating scientists in plant breeding all over Africa. Her work also entails the development of better cultivars to ensure food sustainability on the continent.