BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//TERMINALFOUR//SITEMANAGER V7.3//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20200930T090000
LOCATION: 
DESCRIPTION:Wits PhD presentation by competition finalists
<br />PROGRAMME
<br />30&nbsp; September 2020: Session&nbsp;2
<br />Finalists:
<br />
<br />09:00 hr 12 Melanie Moodie: “Vaccine Voices”- the antidote to the pandemic of scientific misinformation
<br />09:25 hr 13 Mwansa Ketty Lubeya:&nbsp; Impact of the COVID 19-Pandemic on delivery of the human papillomavirus vaccine to adolescent girls in Zambia
<br />09:50 hr 14 Ndivhuwo Shumbula: Surface enhanced Raman scattering/spectroscopy and its potential in early detection of diseases: Towards diagnostics and combating Covid-19 pandemic
<br />10:15 hr 15 Onyinye Jennifer Uwaezuoke:&nbsp; A neoteric biomaterial design for limiting mucous surface interaction with pandemic-causing viral proteins.
<br />10:40 hr 16 Ruth Stephenson: The importance of wastewater treatment during a pandemic and the role that constructed wetlands can play in rural communities.
<br />11:10 hr 17 Seyram Pearl Kumah: African financial markets in a storm: Cryptocurrency safe havens during the COVID-19 pandemic
<br />11:35 hr 18 Tamlyn Naidu: Pandemic Prevention using Early Detection Techniques in Wastewater: Using our Sewage System to Curb Infection Rates
<br />12:00 hr 19 Tumelo Moshoette: DNA ORIGAMI: The molecular art of getting viruses ‘to fold’
<br />12:25 hr 20 Vieviene. A. Antifon: IS IT TIME FOR CLIMATE PLANNING FOR THE SAKE OF PUBLIC HEALTH? A MESSAGE FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
<br />12:50 hr 21 David M. Witelson: Pandemic: indigenous southern African notions of unstoppable disease and how to fight it
<br />13:15 hr 22 Zakhele Ndala: Redesigning the face mask for the inactivation of airborne viruses
<br />
<br />Close of event: 
<br />
<br />13:40 Professor Robert Muponde, Director: Postgraduate Affairs Office
<br />
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong>Wits PhD presentation by competition finalists</strong><h4 style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-university/students/postgraduate-hub/images/Wits-PhD-Seminar-invitation.png" alt="" title="" class="" style="   " ></h4>
<br /><h3 class="p1">PROGRAMME</h3>
<br /><h4 class="p2" style="text-align: center;">30&nbsp; September 2020: Session&nbsp;2</h4>
<br /><p class="p3"><span><strong>Finalists:</strong></span></p>
<br /><ul>
<br /><li class="p1">09:00 hr 12 Melanie Moodie: “Vaccine Voices”- the antidote to the pandemic of scientific misinformation</li>
<br /><li class="p1">09:25 hr 13 Mwansa Ketty Lubeya:&nbsp; Impact of the COVID 19-Pandemic on delivery of the human papillomavirus vaccine to adolescent girls in Zambia</li>
<br /><li class="p1">09:50 hr 14 Ndivhuwo Shumbula: Surface enhanced Raman scattering/spectroscopy and its potential in early detection of diseases: Towards diagnostics and combating Covid-19 pandemic</li>
<br /><li class="p1">10:15 hr 15 Onyinye Jennifer Uwaezuoke:&nbsp; A neoteric biomaterial design for limiting mucous surface interaction with pandemic-causing viral proteins.</li>
<br /><li class="p1">10:40 hr 16 Ruth Stephenson: The importance of wastewater treatment during a pandemic and the role that constructed wetlands can play in rural communities.</li>
<br /><li class="p1">11:10 hr 17 Seyram Pearl Kumah: African financial markets in a storm: Cryptocurrency safe havens during the COVID-19 pandemic</li>
<br /><li class="p1">11:35 hr 18 Tamlyn Naidu: Pandemic Prevention using Early Detection Techniques in Wastewater: Using our Sewage System to Curb Infection Rates</li>
<br /><li class="p2">12:00 hr 19 Tumelo Moshoette: DNA ORIGAMI: The molecular art of getting viruses ‘to fold’</li>
<br /><li class="p1">12:25 hr 20 Vieviene. A. Antifon: IS IT TIME FOR CLIMATE PLANNING FOR THE SAKE OF PUBLIC HEALTH? A MESSAGE FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC</li>
<br /><li class="p1">12:50 hr 21 David M. Witelson: Pandemic: indigenous southern African notions of unstoppable disease and how to fight it</li>
<br /><li class="p1">13:15 hr 22 Zakhele Ndala: Redesigning the face mask for the inactivation of airborne viruses</li>
<br /></ul>
<br /><p class="p4"><strong>Close of event: </strong></p>
<br /><ul>
<br /><li class="p1">13:40 Professor Robert Muponde, Director: Postgraduate Affairs Office</li>
<br /></ul>
SUMMARY:The WITS PhD Seminar, Day 2
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
