SERA e-News

August/September 2011, Vol 8, No 5

SERA partners boast five top Women in Science achievers
	The recent announcement of the Department of Science and Technology's 2011 'South African Women in Science' Award recipients served as a particular point of pride for the Alliance's partner institutions - with five members of staff having made the cut.

CHPC to host 2011 National Conference at CSIR International Convention Centre
	The 2011 Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) National Conference themed Better HPC and data-curation adoption, better research and industrial development will be held from 7-9 December 2011 at the CSIR International Convention Centre (ICC).

River water from Olifants River catchment poses high risk of infection
	As part of the upper Olifants River Research project - linked to work of the SERA Water Focus Area - microbiologists have found that residents of communities living close to Brugspruit in the OIifants River catchment stand a 10 to 60% chance of becoming sick from contaminated water.

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Science talks on global change at CSIR - The CSIR will be hosting a series of science talks on global change in the run-up to COP 17. Source: CSIR

Fellowships for African women scientists a big hit - A mentoring scheme for African women in agricultural science has been inundated with applications. Source: SciDev.Net

Population has bigger effect than climate change on crop yields - Rising population pressure will squeeze maize yields in West Africa at least as much as climate change, researchers say. Source: SciDev.Net