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Out-of-the-world feeling for outstanding PhD student
Congratulations to Ralph Muvhiiwa, who received the Henry V Kehiaian Travel Award at the 24th International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics held in Guilin, China, from 22 to 26 August 2016.
Muvhiiwa is a doctoral student at Unisa’s Material and Process Synthesis (MaPS) research unit, and leader of the Engineers without Borders project attached to MaPS.
Formally presented by the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics (IACT), the Henry V Kehiaian Travel Award is meant to stimulate and encourage outstanding students to enter the field, to facilitate scientific contacts with the international thermodynamics community, and thereby to promote the discipline.
Speaking to us on his return from China, Muvhiiwa said that the award was something to be treasured and honoured. “Winning such an award helped build my confidence, and courage to do more ground-breaking research. It was indeed an out-of-the-world feeling!”
The award is named after Henry Vartan Kehiaian (1929-2009), an internationally acknowledged thermodynamicist, whose dedication to science was legendary: his output ranged from experiment to theory to world-class data banks for thermodynamic and other thermophysical properties to bibliographic work.
*Compiled by Sharon Farrell
Publish date: 2016-09-07 00:00:00.0
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