Alumni Achievers

Education as integrity
Dr Patrick Deane was installed as President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University, Canada, in November 2010. He Wits as being the catalyst for his becoming an academic administrator in pursuit of “education as integrity”.

• Percy Tucker: (Compu)Ticket to ride
  
Alumni with the Edge

Alumni Profiles

Anatomy of Glenda Gray and the war against HIV
Professor Glenda Gray of the Wits-affiliated Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU) is a world authority on HIV. She says the next 10 years are going to produce vaccines, microbicides and even cures for HIV that were never thought possible.

• Quest for Intellectual Leadership
• Ahmed Wadee: Dean of caring

Features

Wits gets to grips with the science of change
Prof. Andrew Crouch is building an army to help save the Earth. The Dean of Science at Wits University is assembling a team of revolutionaries to combat an enemy common to us all, one that may threaten the planet’s very ability to sustain life.

• Ancient art palette discovered in African cave
• Bio-tweeting Witsies lauded
• Sunnyside – treasure trove of history, tradition and fond memories

At Wits End

Ticket Supremo
“I was born in Benoni, where not only did I have my first Campari, it was BC (Before Charlize) and now BCC (Before Charlize and Charlene, Princess of Monaco),” says Percy Tucker.

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