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Providing Medical Training in the Heart of Communities INSIDE September 2009 UCT News Update is a twice yearly publication of the UCT Fund that provides informa- tion about developments at News the University of Cape Town to Alumni and Friends in the Update United States. INSIDE Providing Medical Training in the Heart of Communities A partnership between SHAWCO (the Students’ years—and she’s a “big fan” of community service. Health and Welfare Centers Organization) and “It’s essential to train students in the sort of environ- UCT’s Health Sciences Faculty is providing clinical- ment they have to work in,” she says. skills training for scores of medical students. The Site B Community Health Center provides essential Such is her belief in this experience that, when her health care to thousands of residents on the Cape teaching space came under threat in 2008, instead Flats. It is here that UCT’s medical students get their of just packing it all up, she dug in her heels and first real exposure to community clinics. got creative. The solution to Buchanan-Lee’s space Activist Wins Alumni problem was “Big Mama”, SHAWCO’s largest clinic. Under the guidance of Dr. Biddy Buchanan-Lee and It’s a win-win-win situation in which SHAWCO’s mo- Award, page 2 her two assistants, Ezzy Zozi and Khanyisa Ntwana, bile clinics, used by volunteers to provide medical fourth-year students manage patients with chronic services by night, double up as sites for the manage- diseases such as diabetes, learn the process behind ment of patients by day. X-rays, and assist in HIV clinics. Said Buchanan-Lee: “Without SHAWCO, our stu- With a BSc from UCT and medical training at dents would not have the experience of working in Cambridge and Newcastle Universities, Dr. circumstances close to what awaits them in their Buchanan-Lee has worked in Khayelitsha for 12 community service.” Institute Enhances Creative Cape Town, page 3 Spring Events, page 5 (from left) Interpreter Ezzy Zozi, health sciences student Raphaella Stander, Dr. Biddy Buchanan-Lee, and interpreter Khanyisa Ntwana at work in the SHAWCO mobile clinic in Khayelitsha Site B. 2 ALUMNI IN THE NEWS High Honors for Opera Graduates UCT graduate Golda Schultz (right) has won the inaugural Jan Kaminski Bursary to support her graduate studies at the Juilliard School in New York. Soprano Magdalene Minnaar-Venter (left) has been offered a supporting grant to study at the New York City Opera this year. Both alumni are former members of Cape Town Opera. Activist Wins David Goldblatt at the New Museum Alumni Award The New Museum has compiled over 100 images taken over the past 50 years for ac- claimed photographer David Goldblatt’s first major New York exhibition in over a decade. Photographs in “Intersections Intersected” examine the relationship between the past and present. Black-and-white photographs from the beginning of Goldblatt’s career are paired with his more recent color work. Goldblatt, who was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Art from UCT in 2001, has documented the changing political land- scape of South Africa for more than five decades. He has won the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award. I regard myself as an unlicensed, self-appointed observer and critic of South African society which I continue to explore with the camera. — David Goldblatt “Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt” will be on view until October 11, 2009. Related events include the African Film Festival, a series of documen- tary and fictional films exploring contemporary representations of South Africa, on show at the New Museum on August 29, September 19, and October 10. For more info, see http://www.newmuseum.org Dr. David Russell’s decades-long fight against apartheid was honored by UCT when he was awarded the President of Convocation Medal at the June graduation ceremony. The medal is awarded to UCT graduates who have brought credit to the university by their contribu- tions to the wider community. As a young priest in the 1970s, Russell made headlines as a prominent anti-apartheid activist, Lulu Gebashe and Solomon long before churches spoke out strongly against Mlutshana, Mofolo Park, the apartheid regime. Soweto, Johannesburg, January 1973. 55.5 x 55.5cm Who would you like to see receive the Convocation Courtesy the artist, Goodman Medal? Submit motivations to Monde Mjebeza at Gallery, Johannesburg, and [email protected], by September 30. Howard Greenberg, New York. CAMPUS CONNECTIONS 3 South Africa Tests Salazar Wins Oppenheimer Award AIDS Vaccine Distinguished Professor Philippe-Joseph Salazar has been awarded the prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award. Two HIV vaccines developed by UCT’s Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine have The fellowship is granted to leading scholars to advance cutting-edge, internationally begun clinical testing at Crossroads in Cape Town significant work. Salazar, who is a Life Fellow of UCT and Director of the Centre of and in Soweto. Rhetoric Studies, is the ninth recipient of the award and the third from UCT. The trial was described by Medical Research “The award will enable me to begin research, while in residence at The George Council President Anthony Mbewu as a “giant Washington University, on rare documents concerning George Washington—as a tem- leap” for science and technology in South Africa. plate for understanding what I call presidential ethics,” said Professor Salazar. The country is one of the few developing nations, and the first in Africa, to have developed an HIV vaccine and put it forward for human clinical trials. The vaccines are the culmination of eight years of research and development. They are being con- ducted jointly with the HIV Vaccine Trials Network and U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. “An effective vaccine against HIV/AIDS remains Bridget Oppenheimer with a top global health priority,” said UCT’s Professor Professor Salazar (middle) Anna-Lise Williamson, leader of the vaccine devel- and Professor Wieland Gevers opment team. “We hope that evaluation of these (right), secretary-general of the vaccines will bring us closer to this goal.” Academy of Science. New UCT Institute Enhances “Creative Cape Town” UCT’s newly-established Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts kicks into high gear this month with the start of a new set of public projects and the appointment of a new Director. “What excites me about working with the Gordon Institute is that it embraces a breadth of disciplines,” says Director Rob Baum. Launched last December, the Institute is underpinned by a R50-million chal- lenge grant from the Donald Gordon Foundation. It seeks to bridge creative disciplinary boundaries by bringing together creative writing, drama, dance, film and media, fine art, music and the Baxter Theatre. In August the Institute launched “Great Texts/Big Questions”, a public lecture series featuring speakers such as AIDS activist Zackie Achmat, cosmologist George Ellis and world-renowned neuroscientist Mark Solms. If you’re heading to Cape Town, check for details on upcoming events at UCT dancers perform at the launch of the Gordon Institute www.gipca.uct.ac.za for Performing and Creative Arts in December 2008. 4 EVENTS UCT in California Several Alumni and Friends gatherings were San Diego held in California in May, during a visit to the Alumni met up with friends and colleagues over Sunday brunch U.S. by the Vice-Chancellor Dr. Max Price. and heard from Vice-Chancellor Max Price about new develop- ments at UCT and the role of the University in South Africa and abroad. Barry Kassar with UCT Executive Director of Alumni & Los Angeles Development, Jim McNamara. LA-area Alumni and Friends enjoyed a guided tour of the exhibition “Continental Rifts: Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa” at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, featuring the work of Cape Town art- Berkeley ists, Georgia Papageorge and UCT alumna Berni Searle, followed Bay area alumni joined University of California Berkeley faculty by a reception with remarks from Vice-Chancellor Max Price. and staff at an event co-hosted by the UCT Fund and the UCB Center for Africa Studies at UC Berkeley International House. (from left) John Largier, Martha Saavedra of the UC Berkeley Center for African UCT alumni (from left) Wilma Jakobsen and Neil Kritzinger chat Studies who co-hosted the with Max Price in the courtyard of the UCLA Fowler Museum. event, and Sebastian Kevany. Lynn Reid (left) with Joy Brown. EVENTS 5 Law Dean in New York Palo Alto At the end of May, Law Dean PJ Schwikkard hosted a reunion UCT alumnus Robert Berman and his wife Lucy hosted an for law graduates and friends at event for Dr. Max Price at their home in Palo Alto. This gath- the South African Consulate in ering drew a broad cross-section of alumni, from graduates New York City. The Dean spoke from the 1950’s through the past few years and students from informally about developments in California colleges who studied abroad at UCT. the Faculty and progress of the Law 150 Campaign. She was followed by alumnus Nicholas Haysom, Director for Political Affairs in the Office of United Nations Secretary- General, who spoke about the current challenges facing the UN. Mark Setzen (left) with Robert Berman. (from left to right) Saras Jagwanth with Justin Goldblatt and Lindiwe Vundla. Max Price with alumni Shehnaaz Suliman and Vivek Veeraraghavan, with Grant Parker in the background. Laura-Lee Atkinson-Hope and her husband Eugene Smit. Lynn Reid (left) with Joy Brown. 6 GIFTS AT WORK New Global Career Program Launches at UCT Students Emma Mlanga of Cosmocity High School, Olwethu Rwairwai of Masiyile High School, Nosiphiwo Kabane of Harry Gwala High School, Kesle French of West Haven High School, and Aletta Matakanye of Cosmocity High School took part in the launch of the LEAD program at UCT.
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