John F. W. Herschel Medal in recognition of Highly Distinguished Multidisciplinary Contributions to the furtherance of Science, to : Professor Salim Abdool Karim FRSSAf Director of CAPRISA – Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, President of the South African Medical Research Council and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal […]
On 20th November, Keith P Klugman, Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Society Fellow and winner of RSSAf’s John Herschel Medal, will present a talk entitled ‘Battles across kingdoms: how bacterial co-infections lead to death from influenza’ at the SA Astronomical Obserrvatory Auditorium in Observatory, Cape Town at 5pm. Abstract: Respiratory […]
Professor Yackoob K Seedat, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, is the first recipient from Africa to receive the 2013 Pioneer award for Africa, from the International Society of Nephrology (ISN). The ISN award was recently established to recognise outstanding and sustained contributions to the establishment and/or […]
Wynberg Girls High School in Cape Town won an unprecedented six out of the fifteen prizes in the Senior Category of the National Essay Competition this year including the Royal Society of SA/Claude Leon Foundation Trophy. The Claude Leon Foundation kindly sponsor this annual competition. The prizes were presented by Professor Jill Farrant FRSSAf of […]
The Zoological Society of Southern Africa (ZSSA) has recently awarded a gold medal to Society Fellow, Rhodes University’s Distinguished Professor, Christopher McQuaid of the Zoology and Entomology Department. Amongst his many accomplishments an NRF A-rating was bestowed upon him in 2012. For more about the Award visit the Rhodes University Website
The Society is proud of the achievements of Fellow Professor Tebello Nyokong who won the National Research Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Said the Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom, of Professor Nyokong, “We are privileged to have an academic and scientist of Prof Nyokong’s stature in our National System of Innovation. She is an […]
The 2013 WW Howells Book Prize, a prestigious international award, was awarded to RSSAf Member, UCT’s Professor Alan Morris for his book about the stories told by human bones recovered in South Africa entitled ‘Missing and Murdered: A Personal Adventure into Forensic Anthropology’. The prize is awarded by the biological anthropology section of the American Anthropological Association. […]
RSSAf Fellow, Professor George Ekama, of the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment at UCT, was among those to be awarded the highest recognition in the land when the Order of Mapungubwe, in silver, was bestowed on him by President Zuma, at a ceremony in Pretoria. The award was made “for research that has […]
South African medical engineering group Lodox Systems soon release its latest version of its digital X-ray screening technology, dubbed the Xmplar-dr, which the company says is “unrivalled” as the world’s only high-speed full-body digital scanning device. CEO Pieter de Beer explained that the exceptional feature of the Xmplar-dr is that it takes only 13 seconds […]