Here's to you –

05 April 2004

Paying tribute: Vice-chancellor Prof Njabulo Ndebele (right) congratulates Prof George Ellis on winning the Templeton Prize, at a function attended by members of UCT's Senior Leadership Group. In his speech, Prof Daya Reddy, Dean of Science, expressed his gratitude to Ellis, one of the world's leading cosmologists, for remaining in South Africa and doing his best work at UCT. Reddy said Ellis was "a whole person in the fullest sense of the word". Ellis will collect his prize at Buckingham Palace in May.

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Volume 23 Edition 08

05 Apr 2004

News

Briefs

Science meets art in the click of a shutter

Special deal for some Discovery members

Governing across three levels

Here's to you –

UCT stars among jazz greats

Spoof was a joke most fowl

Youth-on-youth radio programme takes to the air

Baptism of fire made easy for first-years

UCT climate survey results due out

Knighthood for city archaeologist

Farewell to beloved dean of students

Science in the eye of the beholder

Bioterrorists could be targeting US elections

A meeting of two worlds

HRM I presume –

Success for Campus Protection

Buoyant Boyes is a Five-Star Staffer

Sports science spruces up Gugulethu school sports

Close but no cigar for cricket team

Calling all Olympians

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