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of Astronomy) were awarded A-ratings by the NRF, recognising them as leading international scholars in their fields.
Recognition for Excellence The Master’s in Adult Learning & Global Change (ALGC) programme won the Excellence in e-Learning Award at the 14th European Conference on e-Learning, held at Hertfordshire University, UK at the end of 2015. Dr Garnet Grosjean, the international coordinator of the programme, accepted the award on behalf of the ALGC. The Masters in ALGC, in its 15th year of existence, is delivered collaboratively by UWC (South Africa), Linköping University (Sweden), Monash University (Australia) and the University of British Columbia (Canada).
International Award for Dr Pedro Abrantes Dr Pedro Abrantes, from the Department of Medical Biosciences, was awarded the John David Williams Memorial Award by the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC) for Infection and Cancer. This award was presented to him during the American Society for Microbiology / International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC) for Infection and Cancer 55th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and 29th International Congress of Chemotherapy and Infection, held in San Diego, California, in 2015. The title of his award-winning conference paper was “Proteomics of drug-resistant HIVassociated candidiasis”.
Physics Awards Five UWC students from the Physics Department won awards at the 2015 South African Institute of Physics conference:
Siphelo Ngqoloda (second-year masters student, MATSCI) – Outstanding poster presentation in the Condensed Matter division; Sinovuyo Tanci (first-year masters, Physics Education) – Outstanding poster presentation in the Physics Education division; Lynndle Square (PhD, material modelling physics) – Best PhD Oral presentation in Theoretical and Computational Physics division; Phumzile Zandile Mabika (joint MANUS student from University of Zululand) – Outstanding poster presentation in Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics Division; and Bernadette Maria Rebeiro (PhD Nuclear Physics) – Best PhD oral presentation on Nuclear Structure studies.
Moot Court competition The Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice in which student teams argue both the applicant and respondent positions of the case. The UWC Law student team beat four of South Africa’s top universities in the South African round of the competition at UWC, earning the right to represent South Africa in the international phase of the world’s largest student courtroom challenge.
Imperial Barrel Awards UWC team members Sylvia Mabitje, Teddy Raphiri, Muazzam Hashim, Amansure Giovanni and Faculty Advisor Dr Mimonitu Opuwari won the African leg of the Imperial Barrel Award (IBA) competition. The IBA is an annual competition where graduate geoscience teams from universities around the world compete to win scholarship funds towards postgraduate geoscience development at their universities.