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In this issue
- NSTF Awards - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
- NEW NSTF Awards Category - Awards to Science Communicators
- NSTF Awards Radio Talk Show
- NSTF Awards Discussion Forum
NSTF Awards - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The call for nominations for the NSTF Awards 2006/2007 is officially being opened on the 18th of August 2006. This year, nominations can be submitted online from the NSTF Awards Web site at http://nstfawards.org.za/nominationinfo.htm. Alternatively for this year, you can still contact the NSTF secretariat at [email protected] if you wish a copy of the nomination forms to be e-mailed to you.
NEW NSTF Awards Category - Awards to Science Communicators
This category is intended to encourage South African writers, educators and journalists to promote science and technology. If you know of somebody who has, through articles published or materials produced for radio or television, raised the public awareness of science and technology issues, career opportunities and/or educated the public, nominate them for this category.
Entries may include reporting on the life, physical and/or social sciences, engineering and/or mathematics, as well as policy, health and environmental issues related to science and technology.
More information can be obtained about this NEW NSTF Awards Category at http://nstfawards.org.za/awardsk.htm.
NSTF Awards Radio Talk Show (Schedule for the following three weeks)
28 August 2006 - James Smurthwaite will be conducting an interview with Dr Saadhna Panday, a research specialist at the HSRC’s Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme. James is a radio presenter at Rhodes Music Radio (Rhodes University’s campus radio station). If you are in the Grahamstown vicinity on this day, tune into RMR on 89.7 MHz FM Stereo at 16h00.
04 September 2006 - Refiloe Khoali will be interviewing Vis Naidoo, CEO of Mindset Network. Refiloe is a radio presenter at TUT Top Stereo (Tshwane University of Techology’s campus radio station). Everybody in the Pretoria area would be able to listen to this interview at 13h00 by tuning into 93.6 MHz FM Stereo.
06 September 2006 - Perusha Naidoo will be interviewing Prof Greyvenstein, Faculty of Engineering at the University of the North West, Potchefstroom. Perusha is the station manager of UCT Radio (University of Cape Town’s campus radio station). People in Cape Town can listen to this interview at 13h00 on 104.5 MHz FM Stereo
Academics are encouraged to invite students to engage with these top scientists, engineers and technologists by posting an invite on the student intranet system or WebCT.
NSTF Awards Discussion Forum
Visit the NSTF Awards Web site (http://nstfawards.org.za/) to view the profiles of this year’s NSTF Award Winners and at which campus radio station they will be interviewed. You are invited to post comments and questions to the NSTF Awards Discussion Forum (http://nstfawards.org.za/discussions.htm), which will be addressed in the live radio talk show.
Corporate organisations and companies are encouraged to extend this invitation to staff, using the company intranet, to participate in the NSTF Awards Discussion Forum in order to benefit from the wealth of knowledge held by these leaders in the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) sector.
For more details about the contributions of the NSTF Awards Winners, visit the NSTF Awards Web site at http://nstfawards.org.za/
Remember to post questions or comments that you want answered or addressed during the NSTF Awards Radio Talk-show discussion to the NSTF Awards Discussion Forum.
The NSTF Awards Discussion Forum can be found at: http://nstfawards.org.za/discussions.htm.
The Web & Media Technologies Division of the MRC evaluates the use of a convergence of ICTs to optimise on the process of knowledge transfer.
We wish to thank the following campus radio stations for their participation in showcasing the contributions of the NSTF Award winners to the SET sector:
UCT Radio (University of Cape Town), MFM (Stellenbosch University), Rhodes Music Radio (Rhodes University), TUT Stereo (Tshwane University of Technology), Tuks FM (University of Pretoria), UJFM (University of Johannesburg), Univen Community Radio (University of Venda), UCRFM (Walter Sisulu University)
For more information, contact the NSTF Secretariat at:
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.nstf.org.za
Tel: +27 12 841 3987 x2708
Fax: +27 12 841 3025
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