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• NSTF Awards Radio Talk Show - MFM (Stellenbosch University's campus radio station) will be interviewing Dr Tania Douglas on 31 July at 11:15

NSTF Awards Radio Talk Show - MFM (Stellenbosch University's campus radio station) will be interviewing Dr Tania Douglas on 31 July at 11:15

By combining biology and medicine with engineering, biomedical engineers develop devices and procedures that solve medical and health-related problems. NSTF Award Winner, Dr Tania Douglas is a biomedical engineer at the MRC/UCT Medical Imaging Research Unit in the UCT Department of Human Biology. Having completed an undergraduate degree in traditional electrical engineering, Dr Douglas works in the field of medical imaging, which includes X-ray, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging. More specifically, research that Dr Douglas is involved in includes identifying Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in children using photographs followed by a process of automatic facial feature recognition, the development of a smart microscope for automatic detection of TB in sputum smears and digital mammography.

A Web cast profiling the work of the two female NSTF Award winners for 2005/2006, Dr Douglas and Prof Candy Lang will be streamed from the NSTF Awards Web site on Women's Day 9 August 2006. You are encouraged to post 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 during the NSTF Awards Radio Talk-show discussion to the NSTF Awards Discussion Forum at questions 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
Fax: +27 12 841 3025

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

If you wish to participate on the NSTF Awards Radio talk show discussion contact:

Lorenzo Raynard
E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.mrc.ac.za or http://radio.mrc.ac.za

Tel: 012 339 8572
Fax: 0 21 938 0474