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All the Campus news you need to know about August 2017's #WomansMonth
For instance, we celebrated these three accomplished women:
Professor Charlyn Wessels Dyers of the Department of Linguisitics has retired. Prof Dyers began her association with the University of the Western Cape as a student and worked in the English Department before beginning her long association with the Department of Linguistics.
Last year Catherine Joubert worked in a road construction crew in Wellington, waving a flag to regulate the traffic. Whenever her Grade 1 teacher passed her she lowered her gaze, ashamed of a menial job she disliked.
Dr Lana Alagha, assistant professor of mineral processing at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, visited Professor Leslie Petrik in the Department of Chemistry at UWC for two weeks to learn how Prof Petrik applies nanotechnology to the mining of rare earth metals. Dr Alagha’s specific interest is in fi nding the best way to separate rare ear