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Speaker:  Professor Kelly Chibale Award:  2010-2011 NSTF-BHP Billiton Award Winner Date : MONDAY 19 September 2011Time : 13:00 – 14:00Venue : De Beers Building, Lecture Theatre 2003. Prof. Chibale is a SARCHi Chair in Drug Discovery, Departmentof Chemistry at the University of Cape Town.His current research focuses on finding potential medicines that fight malaria, TB [...]

The enriching experience of attending the Afro Asia Workshop on Advanced Topics in Chemistry in Bangalore, India has so enthused a group of young academics from the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science that they are now interested in hosting a similar workshop at Stellenbosch University in 2012. “We would like to reciprocate in an [...]

For two Stellenbosch University students doing postgraduate research on the chemistry of platinum metals, the International Year of Chemistry, which is being celebrated in 2011, got off to a great start. Hugo van Wyk and James Odendal, who are both members of the Platinum Metals Research Group of the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, [...]

A doctoral student in organic chemistry, Simon Herbert, will be off to Manchester in the United Kingdom (UK) in September thanks to a prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship. Simon is one of about 30 South Africans to receive receive this prestigious scholarship from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK this year. Over the past 50 years, [...]

The Water Research Commission (WRC) has honoured Prof Ed Jacobs of the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University with a Technical Excellence Award for developing innovative water purification technology that are commercially viable. The WRC’s inaugural Technical Excellence Awards were established to honour WRC funded technological inventions that have been commercialised to [...]

Gareth Bayley, a doctoral research student in Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University, has won the Carl Klason Prize for the best oral paper presented by a student at the World Forum on Advanced Materials (POLYCHAR 18). POLYCHAR 18, which was held in Siegen in Germany, brought together established polymer scientists from academia and industry, young [...]

Nobel Laureate Prof Richard Ernst gave an inspiring and often humorous account of his life as a groundbreaking scientist when he addressed a public lecture at Stellenbosch University’s Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science. “Everybody is a scientist or a chemist,” the 1991 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry said. “Some just do it [...]

Simon Herbert, a doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University, received the Young Chemist Award at the 11th Frank Warren Conference held in Pietermaritzburg. The conference, held by the South African Chemical Institute, covered all branches of organic chemistry. Simon’s research project, done under supervision of Dr Gareth Arnott, [...]

A senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, separation scientist Dr Andre de Villiers, received the Csaba Horváth Memorial Award at the 34th International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separation and Related Techniques (also known as HPLC2009) in Germany.

Students from the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science of Stellenbosch University walked away with three of the six poster prizes to be awarded at the INORG2009, the 14th biennial international South African Chemical Institute (SACI) and Royal Society Dalton conference.What makes their achievements even more impressive is that the trio of Eugene Lakay, Hugo [...]