Scholars inaugurated to the Academy of Science of South Africa
The new SAYAS member is Professor Asanda Mditshwa, who is an associate professor of horticultural sciences at UKZN.
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) academics are among 29 of South Africa’s leading scholars and scientists inaugurated as members of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) while one young academic has been admitted into the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS).
The new ASSAf members from UKZN are Professor Deevia Bhana (South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality), Professor Rituparno Goswami (Academic Leader (Research) at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science), Professor Yin-Zhe Ma (Academic at the Physics Cluster at UKZN and a core member of the Square Kilometre Array team), Professor Thajasvarie Naicker (Academic in the College of Health Sciences), Professor Kogieleum Naidoo (Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA).
The new SAYAS member is Professor Asanda Mditshwa, who is an associate professor of horticultural sciences at UKZN.
Vice-Chancellor and Principal of UKZN, Professor Nana Poku congratulated the newly inaugurated members.
“Membership in the Academy is reserved for the country’s leading scholars and scientists. Their election as Members of ASSAf cements their stature as among the country’s best scholars. The mere fact that they were elected into the Membership by existing members of the Academy is proof that they also command the respect of their peers,” said Poku, adding that new members are elected each year by the full existing Membership.
Poku added that membership of the academy is a great honour and is in recognition of scholarly achievement.
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