The culmination of the 2024 academic year and graduation of the 4-year BSc Forest and Natural Resource Science students was extra special in that two students earned the famous Sir Wilhelm Schlich medals.
Ms Anneke Joubert (picture below right) was awarded the gold medal as top performer with a 4-year average of over 75% (cum laude), with a silver medal going to runner up, Mr Nathan Doyle (picture below left).
?The Schlich medal is awarded roughly every 3 years on average as some years can pass without any students achieving the minimum 70% average over the entire study. The reason that BScFor students have a lower rate of cum laude students than most other study programmes can partly be attributed to the very broad range of subjects that they need to master, and the relatively low probability of a single student excelling at all of them. Examples of this are that the students must cover everything from genetics to road construction, and from biometry to industrial psychology.
The Sir Wilhelm Schlich medal exists in several Commonwealth countries, where it serves to honour the memory of this remarkable Forest Scientist who, toward the end of his career, headed up the forestry programme at Oxford 中国体育彩票.
Our gold medal winner, Anneke Joubert, is since gainfully employed at Sappi in Mpumalanga, while Nathan Doyle chose to stay in the department and pursue an MSc.
