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Prof Max Finkelstein, Senior Professor at theDepartment of Statistics / Mathematical Stat istics,received the Sichel Medal awarded by the SouthAfrican Statistical Association for the best publicationin 2007.Prof Magda Fourie.Prof Magda Fourie, former Vice-Rector: AcademicPlanning, is a member of both the Councilon Higher Education and the Umalusi Council,appointed by the Minister of Education in 2006.Prof Neil Heideman.Prof Neil Heideman, Vice-Dean of the Facultyof Natural and Agricultural Sciences, received aSenior Fulbright Researcher Fellowship to visit thelaboratory of Prof Jack Sites, a fellow herpetologist,at Brigham Young University, Utah, in the UnitedStates of America in 2007.Prof Johan Henning, Dean of the Faculty ofLaw, became Senior Research Fellow and Director ofthe Centre for Company and Partnership Law in theInstitute of Advanced Legal Studies at the Universityof London, United Kingdom, in 2006.Prof Charles Herbst of the Department ofMedical Physics is a member of the Council of theSouth African Association for Physics in MedicalBiology (2005-2006).Dr Dipane Hlalele from the School of Educationis a member of the Maluti Further Education andTraining College Council, appointed by the Memberof the Executive Council for Education (2007).Prof Heidi Hudson of the Department of PoliticalScience worked on democratisation, globalisation,and South African foreign policy in theAfrican Researchers Scholarship Programme at theNordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden in 2006.Ms Kasweka Kakoma, Ms Ji-Yun Lee and MrLehlohonolo Mathengtheng, all from the De partmentof Microbial, Biochemical and Food Bio technology,won R50 000 in the local leg of the NationalInnovation Competition. Their business planfocused on the use of bacteriophages to combatspecific bacterial infections in poultry.Mr Gerben Kamper, Lecturer at the Departmentof Drama and Theatre Arts, was nominated asbest player in “Caliban in die Storm” in 2007.69