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482 Faculty of Science Dean’s report The Faculty of Science enjoyed considerable success in its research endeavours in a number of areas during 2011. To meet the continuing rise in cost of internationally competitive research, staff were successful in raising approximately R141 million in research income to cover a range of projects, including salaries for soft-funded staff, postdoctoral fellows and master’s and PhD bursaries. This is a particularly noteworthy achievement, given the dwindling NRF resources for the pure sciences. Of this funding, R58 million was received from the NRF and some R78 million from research contracts with industry, government, public entities and statutory bodies, and science councils; with about R28 million being raised from foreign sources. Of importance to the training of postgraduate students in our faculty, staff were able to raise R32 million for bursaries in support of honours, master’s and PhD students in the faculty. The number of PhD and postdoctoral researchers remained high, with 118 postdoctoral fellows spread among the departments, and 350 PhD students registered in the faculty. A measure of the success of our postgraduate training programmes is reflected in the number of master’s and doctoral graduates produced in the Science faculty in 2011, with 48 PhDs and 122 master’s degrees being awarded, 22 percent of the latter with distinction. Two students who excelled in their postgraduate studies were Fhumulani Nemulodi (Department of Physics), who was awarded the prestigious S2A3 Medal for the best master’s dissertation titled Third Order Relativistic Fluid Dynamics for Heavy-Ion Collisions, and Dr Jasper Slingsby (Department of Botany), who received the faculty PhD medal for 2011 for his thesis, titled Ecological Differentiation and the Evolution and Maintenance of Fynbos Diversity. Research publication output from staff and postgraduate students remained high, with about 900 articles being published in ISI journals during 2011. As we continue to strive for excellence and international competitiveness in the research arena, the faculty is proud of the latest additions to its current 13 NRF A-rated, 56 B-rated, 45 C-rated, 24 Y-rated, and five P-rated scientists. The latter, in particular, reflects the growing research strength of our younger academic staff. Professor Ed Rybicki of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology received an NRF A-rating, while three young researchers, Dr Amanda Weltman (Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), and Dr David Braun and Dr Shadreck Chirikure from the Department of Archaeology, received NRF P-ratings in 2011. At the university level, three of our more senior scientists, professors George Janelidze (Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), Hans-Peter Kunzi (Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), and Ed Rybicki were honoured by being elected as fellows of the University of Cape Town in recognition of their international research standing and the impact of their research. Professor Janelidze was recognised for his work in categorical algebra, including abstract Galois theory, with applications in classical algebra, geometry and topology; Professor Kunzi for his work in analytic and categorical topology, focusing on frame theory and asymmetric topology; and Professor Rybicki for his work on the use of plants and cell cultures to make pharmaceutically-important proteins, and in elucidating the virus-host interactions of grass- and cerealinfecting geminiviruses. At a junior level, the faculty was privileged to have the UCT College of Fellows name two of our younger staff, Dr Rob Ingle (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology) and Dr Deena Pillay (Department of Zoology), as recipients of its 2011 College of Fellows’ Young Researcher Awards that recognise outstanding scholarly work by young academics. Dr Ingle’s research area lies in the interactions between plants and their environment, particularly in the molecular mechanisms that help them cope with stresses imposed either by other organisms or by chemical/physical factors. Dr Pillay’s research interests focus on inter-tidal and estuarine ecology, with a view to understanding the role of biological interactions in structuring marine ecosystems. An important milestone in the faculty that was reached in 2011 was the 100 th anniversary of the Bolus Herbarium (Department of Botany). A series of lectures by worldrenowned botanists, two exhibitions, and a commemorative collecting trip were arranged to celebrate the event. Professor Peter Linder (University of Zurich) gave the keynote address. Another development of importance to the faculty was the establishment and URC accreditation of the H-3D Centre for Drug Discovery & Development, with Professor Kelly Chibale, Department of Chemistry, as Director, and the URC accreditation of the Scientific Computing Research Unit, with Professor Kevin Naidoo, UCT ReseaRCh RepoRT '11
also of the Department of Chemistry, as Director. These add to the 12 previously established URC research units and centres in the Faculty of Science. The faculty was privileged to be awarded another SARChI Chair, in Extra-galactic Multi-wavelength Astronomy, with Professor Claude Carignan taking up the position to bolster the rapidly expanding Department of Astronomy. Staff of the faculty continued to garner national and international awards for their research contributions. Professor Jill Farrant of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology became the third UCT woman scientist to win the L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award in Life Sciences (region: Africa and Arab States), announced in November 2011. Another notable achievement was that of Dr Amanda Weltman, who received the 2011/12 NSTF – BHP Billiton TW Kambule Award for “an outstanding contribution to science, engineering, technology and innovation (SETI) through research and its outputs” by an emerging researcher. The faculty was privileged to have three other deserving finalists at the award ceremony faCUlTy of sCIeNCe Departments Department of Archaeology Department of Astronomy Department of Botany Department of Chemistry Department of Computer Science Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Department of Geological Sciences Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Department of Oceanography Department of Physics Department of Statistical Sciences Department of Zoology 483
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