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Distinction for first Electrolyser Research Group master’s graduate Ziba Rajan will be the first master’s graduate from UCT’s Electrolyser Research Group, and she will be graduating with distinction.

‘Grab your opportunities with both hands’ Takunda Chitaka, by her own admission, walks through doors when she sees they are open. It is an instinct that has served her well on her academic path.

A very heart felt congratulations to the "Waste to fuel initiative" for making to the IChemE Global Awards 2020 finalist list under the Energy category.

The "Waste to fuel initiative" is a collaborative project with a research team across three continents that contribute to the development of a modular technology to produce fuel from waste (https://www.wastetofuelinitiative.com/).

The initiative includes researchers from your very own Catalysis Institute, in Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), the Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (India) and the Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron, Campinas (Brazil).

The IChemE Global Awards celebrate chemical, process and biochemical engineering excellence and are widely considered as the world’s most prestigious chemical engineering awards.

So this is a great achievement for the team.

Well done, A/Prof Broadhurst!

Six UCT researchers are ‘Science Oscars’ finalists Six UCT researchers are into the final round of the 2019/2020 NSTF-South32 Awards, which celebrate those making outstanding contributions in science, engineering and technology.

Do you want to be part of movement that creates positive and sustainable solutions for society's problems? Then be like Brandon and join EBE at UCT. Applications closed 31 July. applyonline.uct.ac.za

Apply for an NRF scholarship to come do your MSc or PhD in chemical engineering with us in 2021!

Applications are due at the end of this month (30 June).

Top tip: Don't underestimate the time it takes to compile the information for the application. Make sure you give yourself enough time!

For more info, visit the UCT Postgraduate Degree Funding noticeboard on the UCT website.

http://www.students.uct.ac.za/students/fees-funding/postgraduate-degree-funding/noticeboard

Opportunity!

Wonderful guidelines to use in association with our department's outline

Congratulations to all the EBE graduates!

Our hearts simply burst with pride on graduation days! Yesterday was no exception as we celebrated the success of our extremely talented EBE graduates...

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!

We are so excited to announce that applications are now open for our flagship Foundation Programme in Design Thinking running in the first semester of 2020.

This is an exciting journey into creativity, team-work and finding new ways of thinking about the world's challenges. Students across South Africa are invited to apply.

Have a look at our flyer for application criteria and more information and follow the link below to apply:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FpBswAX8z7f1MbNPiykeTLy7tHu_dQONsOvi0UI6ytA/edit

University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business

Congratulations, Mpumelelo Mhlongo!

South African Para Athlete sets new world record!!! Mpumelelo Mhlongo broke his own world record while bettering his own time in the T44 category with a time of 11.09 secs!   Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Mp

Congratulations, Chelsea Tucker!

We are looking to recruit a part time lecturer here at the GC Programme to begin in January 2020. Please see the attached advertisement and share widely if you know someone who might be interested! The closing date is 8 November 2019.

Tomorrow with the UCT EBESC.

A while back we did a drive for clothes, sanitary pads (Thank you EBESC and UCT IAPO) and books.

The idea here is to promote literacy, carrying for one another and breaking stereotypes and challenges in our country and continent.

The event will see the boys distributing the sanitary pads to the girls on the day.

We expect to be having 40 students from Bulumko Secondary School and Zonnebloem Nest Snr.

We are inspired to reach out to the UCT communities and its environs to come see the work of these two organisations and also contribute towards this initiative in terms of sanitary pads, books and clothes for the young and old.

10 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY!

All UCT students from all 6 faculties are welcome! (To qualify, Students must have exactly 2 years remaining of their undergraduate degree programme). This is a merit-based scholarship for UCT students who show exceptional leadership qualities.

Deadline 20 October 2019.

Reminder: One Week Until 2019

Register today for Hart House Global Commons 2019. Be part of a global discussion about LIVE on Thursday, October 17th 4pm-6pm in Hoeri 3C. Hosted by Hart House, with virtual participation from students in Colombia, the U.S., South Africa, and France. Get inspired, get involved.

Presented in partnership with:
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
University of Toronto Student Life Programs & Services
UTSC Department of Student Life and International Student Centre
UTM Centre for Student Engagement
UTM International Education Centre

Learn more and register now at https://harthouse.ca/events/global-commons-fall-2019

Next session for Men Let's talk with the facilitators from the Mankind project.

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!

Students registered at universities or higher learning institutions across South African are invited to apply for our exciting Design Thinking Week running from 19 to 22 November 2019. Application deadline is 25 October at 12am.

Read the flyer for more information.

Apply at this link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kEQaVsvSo8oaKBCmMDCBTbEMaS7AM1sGzwzIl1pKWIw/edit

Reflection time session two - time to talk, to listen and engage with how you doing.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts in the general area of mineral and metallurgical processing. The deadline for submission is the 30 September 2019

Please follow the link - https://bit.ly/2krfUaV to see the listing of congress Technical Streams. Authors will be notified of the outcome of the abstract review process by 30 November 2019.

Men let's continue the conversation

For those in Gauteng

Process Design Practices by Cilliers Kruger TO ALL SAIChE Members:   Please note the following training event for your consideration. Please assist by forwarding this note to others that could also benefit from it?   1. Process Design Practices by Cilliers Kruger CONFIRMED

Men Let's talk - a session facilitated by people from the Mankind project.

Come and join us for free 50-minute self-defence classes for the rest of the semester. Brought to you by the EBE transformation committee! RSVP's are required 💚💪

Our next Critical Conversations topic will be “Towards an of Care: & ”. The discussion will take place tomorrow, September 10th in EM7 between from 16h00 and 18h00, and our guest speaker will be Forensic Psychology scholar and visual activist Skye Chirape (link to bio in comments).

Congratulations to CeBER UCT Student Tomas Hessler who has just received the WhiteSci Travel Award from Whitehead Scientific! 🎉

This award has been given to Tom (a PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering) who will now deliver an oral presentation at the 23rd International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium (IBS) held in Fukuoka Japan this October.

This is the first time that this prestigious award has been received by a postgraduate student in the UCT Chemical Engineering Department - well done, Tom! The conference proceeding associated to his presentation is entitled: "Biological sulphate reduction as sustainable treatment of acid rock drainage: performance of an acetate supplemented Linear Flow Channel Reactor."😁