ANNUAL REPORT 2011 - University of Cape Town

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coordinating team to the first two other African partner institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia. Key outcomes of these visits were the planning of research visits to Cape Town and the USA by the senior members of the institutions, and the identification of junior staff members who will join the NanoSciences Innovation Centre as postgraduate students. Two junior staff members from each institution were identified and have applied to UCT for first registration in 2012. Similarly, after the first release of funds, recruitment of support and scientific staff, as well as local postgraduate students for 2012 has been initiated in the second semester of 2011. In total the postgraduate student cohort of the NanoSciences Innovation Centre is expected to double from its mid-2011 number by April 2012. This planned growth is enabled by the addition of new partners in the NanoPower Africa network and the affiliation of locally based collaborators to the NanoSciences Innovation Centre. Since its inception, new partners in at Rhodes University in South Africa, and the University of Botswana and BOTEC in Gaberone, have joined the NanoPower Africa Network. Within South Africa, the NanoSciences Innovation Centre is consolidating its own network with affilates at other universities and research institutions, including the CSIR National Centre for Nanostructured Materials and iThemba LABS. Similarly, within the Department of Physics, associate Professor Mark Blumenthal is the newest member of the NanoSciences Innovation Centre. As part of the USAID funded initiative, the members of the NanoSciences Innovation Centre have been instrumental in implementing an experimental lecture series held simultaneously at six sites, in four countries on two continents. The assistance of UCT’s Health Science Faculty in providing essential infrastructure has been invaluable in this regard. As part of this programme, African science and engineering postgraduate students are expected to work with Amercian social and business science undergraduate students, assisting them in understanding and developing appropriate business models for solar power projects the different African countries. As part of our involvement in USAID activities, a low key working visit by Dr. John. P. Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and TechnologyPolicy, and Assistant to the Preseident for Science and Technology, is planned for 11 th November 2011. 3.4.2 Current Students and Fellows MSc David Moweme Unuigbe Lehlohonolo Mongalo Michel Mambouku Nzikou Sara Abdelazeem Hassan Abass 12
PhD Lloyd Angelo Corker (under examination) Emmanuel Ohieku Jonah Batsirai Magunje Stanley Douglas Walton Stephen David Jones Ulrich Männl Post-doctoral Abdulrafiu Tunde Raji Rudolf Nüssl 3.4.3 Student Theses and Dissertations Submitted in 2011 Lloyd Angelo Corker, PhD Lehlohonolo Mongalo, MSc 3.4.4 Degrees passed in 2011 Sara Abdelazeem Hassan Abass, MSc Michel Nzikou, MSc 13
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