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31 October 2023
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Story Mosa Mofokeng
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)
Prof Dejene’s inaugural lecture to focus on light energy
2016-05-05

Prof Francis Dejene Photo: Thabo Kessah |
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’.