VN November 2022

Vetnews | November 2022 7 Prizes were rewarded as follows: The best undergraduate oral presentation: JD Clark The best postgraduate presentation runner up: KM Sepotokele In the speed-dating section the best 3 minute thesis was presented by CEMay and the best 1minute dissertation was presented by JL Kotze The Researcher of the Year Award sponsored by MSD Animal Health went to Prof Geoffrey Fosgate. Prof Fosgate was unfortunately absent. The rest of the top 10 Researchers in the Faculty were as follows: 1. Prof Geoffrey Fosgate 6. Prof Peter Thompson 2. Prof Lyndy McGaw 7. Prof Henriette van Heerden 3. Prof LeithMeyer 8. Prof Marinda Oosthuizen 4. Prof Vinny Naidoo 9. Prof Nenene Qekwana 5. Prof Anita Michel 10. Prof Amelia Goddard The old saying that “It is not done until the fat lady sang” was not more true, except the last word was not by any fat lady, but by the Onderstepoort Community Choir themselves. The OCC is a choir consisting of students, nurses, clinicians, researchers and others at the University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort Campus. They thoroughly entertained the guests and sent themoffwith a beautiful blessing. v LindaNocakaandothersbeingupdatedontheresearch KibambeDaddyperformed Thebestpostgraduateposterpresentationrunnerup: ACDonaldson Thebestpostgraduateposterpresentationrunnerup: TKMtetwa Thebestpostgraduatepresentation(SponsoredbyMSD): LMarais Article