Top Achievers' Top Tips

Recently, several pharmacy students were identified as being amongst the Top 100 female students in STEM (Science, Engineering & Technology) degrees at UKZN and were invited to attend a Women in STEM event hosted by Johnson & Johnson.

A group photo of the top 100 best performing female students in STEM

The event featured guest speakers from several disciplines, including:

• Professor Cristina Trois - SARChI Chair in Waste and Climate Change, UKZN

• Professor Kogie Naidoo (Keynote speaker) - Deputy Director and Head of Treatment: CAPRISA

• Zakithi Mkhize #BlackGirlScientist - PhD Candidate, HIV Pathogenesis Programme: UKZN

• Rakhi Beekrum - Counselling Psychologist

• Dr Nomali Ngobese - UKZN Alumnus, Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South African

• Michelle Lang - Janssen Haematology KZN

Beautiful Entrance

Mini Cacti Favours

Event Speakers

Professor Cristina Trois

Professor Kogie Naidoo

Zakithi Mkhize

Rakhi Beekrum

Dr Nomali Ngobese

Michelle Lang (J&J)

Several of our pharmacy students were attendees, including 3 UKNAPS Executive Committee members!

We recently reached out to these intelligent women to glean some of their top tips and advice for succeeding academically, and these were some of the responses we received:

We as UKNAPS are incredibly proud of their achievements and wish them continued success in their futures!

Aadila Moosa

Media & Communications Officer