Professor Catherine A. Odora Hoppers, PASCAL Co-director, Africa, who is the incumbent of the South African Research Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Development Education set up by the Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation, and hosted at the University of South Africa to advance the frontiers of knowledge and to stimulate strategic research across the knowledge spectrum was given two awards in August 2015. 

On the 3^rd August 2015, she received the “Woman of the Year”, by the University of South Africa; and on the 10^th August, she was named as a “Leading Educationist” and was honored in the Gallery of Leadership as the 63 most influential people who have shaped Unisa since its inception in 1873, in a virtual and permanent exhibition in Kgorong Building in UNISA.

For more on the Permanent Exhibition, Unisa Documentary, Personalities and Themes see http://www.unisahistory.ac.za.