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Clean sweep for female scientists at Women in Science Awards

Wednesday, 29 August, 2018
Evodia Setati
Congratulations to Dr Evodia Setati, from the Department of Viticulture and Oenology, Stellenbosch University, for winning the Distinguished Women Scientist award from the national Department of Science and Technology in the category Natural and Engineering Sciences.

In a first for Stellenbosch University, three of the institution's eminent female scientists made a clean sweep in the same category at the annual South African Women in Science Awards ceremony in Polokwane on Thursday (23 August 2018).

Dr Evodia Setati (Institute for Wine Biotechnology)​ was a winner in the category: Distinguished Woman Researchers in Natural (Life and Physical) and Engineering Sciences, while Prof Karen Esler (Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology) and Prof Soraya Bardien (Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics) finished second and third respectively.

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