Bumper FitzPatrick Institute student graduations in 2011

We are delighted to announce that the FitzPatrick Institute has had a bumper year for post-graduate student outputs. No less than 26 students, supported and/or supervised by the Institute’s Centre of Excellence graduated during 2011 – 7 PhD, 12 MSc and 7 BSc Honours students. This is the largest group of students that has ever graduated from the Institute in a single year!

The Institute’s proud record of research, teaching and public awareness of science has been built up over 50 years of hard work and strategic planning. Students are an integral part of any research activity and contribute directly to intellectual capital and problem-solving capacity in the country and abroad. The Institute wishes to thank all those that have supported us during this bumper year, in particular the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation for their award of full Centre of Excellence status, without which these outputs would not have been possible. We wish these graduates all of the very best with their future careers and trust that they will indeed make a difference.

The graduate students supervised and/or supported by the Institute's Centre of Excellence are the following:

PhD
Adams Chaskda, Callan Cohen, Genevieve, Jones, Ian, Little, Graeme Oatley, Angela Ribeiro & Sampath Lokugalapatti (U. Stellenbosch)

MSc
Gregory Mutumi

MSc (Cons Bio)
Sharon George, Petra de Abreu, Katherine du Plessis, Katherine England, Clova Jurk, Andre Krahner, Sarah Lewis, Gina Louw, Dane Marx, Sofia Solano, Vincent van der Merwe & Dale Wright

BSc (Hons)
Koebraa Peters, Alexa Prinsloo, Ben Dilley, David Green (NMMU), Gareth Tate,
Maarten Van Beuningen & William Wyness (UCT Botany)

IMAGE: Three of the PhD students who graduated on 16 December 2011 (from right to left): Genevieve Jones, Ian Little and Graeme Oatley (Photo: Bryan Little).