Working together to achieve great things DUT Alumnus, Ms Ugeshni Moodley, lauded for her contribution to the Student Bursaries Project… The Durban University of Technology’s (DUT’s) Ms Ugeshni Moodley, an alumnus of DUT, is honoured to have been the recent recipient of the prestigious Chancellor’s Award, given in recognition of Innovative Excellence in the category of ‘Student Centeredness’, and awarded to her for her sterling role and contribution towards the Student Bursaries Project.
Ms Ugeshni Moodley won the award at the DUT Council Staff and Research & Innovation Awards Ceremony 2020, which took place virtually. The award in this category is awarded to an innovative project or initiative that has positively enhanced the student living and/ or learning experience – academically, socially and/or in the context of student welfare and wellbeing. Moodley is a Technician who hails from the Faculty of Accounting and Informatics. She has 15 years of lecturing experience at DUT and has attained many industry certifications over the years. As fate may have it, she had to leave her passion for lecturing due to ill-health and has since taken up a technical post within the Faculty of Accounting and Informatics at DUT. “I have a strong flair for organising events and have successfully hosted numerous award functions and team building events. I advocate for a positive work environment characterised by teamwork, support, trust, and respect for one another. I believe that hard work and commitment is the key to success, so if you ask my family, they will say that I am a workaholic,” she relayed. Moodley further said that she lives by the values of service to humanity, giving back and paying it forward, to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate. Upon winning such a prominent Chancellor’s award, Moodley expressed that she still cannot believe she had won such an award. “I really didn’t expect it. I feel so honoured and it is just so inspiring to be recognised. I am extremely grateful to the Durban University of Technology for this prestigious award. It has motivated me to keep working at it to make a difference to those in need. I believe I have done my family, my parents and my community proud,” she said happily. Moodley thanked all the industry partners, including SAP, IBM, Hollywood Bets, Aspen, Lenovo, Institute of Business Partnership and Betting Entertainment Technologies for reaching out to the call to assist students from financially strained families. Over the
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