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Trans Collective stops RMF exhibition
10 Mar 2016
Why it's time for business schools to radically rethink the MBA
10 Mar 2016
UCT devastated to confirm student rape; suspected link to Rhodes Memorial incidents
10 Mar 2016
UCT-LSE July School open for registration
UCT will host the 4th annual London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) - UCT July School from 27 June to 8 July this year. Applications made by 31 March 2016 qualify for early bird discount.
10 Mar 2016
Latest update
09 Mar 2016
Coldest Place in Africa is in the UCT Physics Department
The Physics Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) recently acquired a Dilution Fridge, which is officially the coldest place in Africa with a temperature of 8.190mK (milli Kelvin), i.e. 122 times colder than the known naturally coldest place in the universe - the Boomerang Nebula.
09 Mar 2016
Dan Stein: challenging the mental health stigma
Psychiatric disorders account for the third largest portion of South Africa's disease burden.
08 Mar 2016
Joining hands
08 Mar 2016
Sue Parnell: designing cities
According to Professor Sue Parnell, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences and Executive Committee member of the African Centre for Cities...
08 Mar 2016
Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings: unemployment and public policy
South Africa has always been a country of insiders and outsiders, and today one of the biggest fault lines in society is between the employed and the unemployed.
08 Mar 2016
Analysing poverty and inequality
Professor Murray Leibbrandt, DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Poverty and Inequality, and Professor Haroon Bhorat...
08 Mar 2016
Alan Flisher: high-risk teenage behaviours
It was for his work on the epidemiology of high-risk behaviour among adolescents, particularly related to sexual behaviour and substance abuse...
08 Mar 2016
Timm Hoffman: changes in land use
Professor Timm Hoffman, Leslie Hill Chair of Plant Conservation, Department of Biological Sciences, won the Alan Pifer Award for his work...
08 Mar 2016
Open letter calling on the UCT community to reject violence and divisiveness
UCT is a community in which diversity of opinion is celebrated, where creativity and critical thought are valued, and where ideas are advanced through reasoned open debate.
08 Mar 2016
Pippa Skotnes & Mark Fleishman: art and performance
Every year in the small Western Cape town of Clanwilliam local schoolchildren take part in workshops hosted by UCT's arts and drama departments...
08 Mar 2016
Raj Ramesar: genetic research and intervention
Professor Raj Ramesar, head of the Division of Human Grenetics and director of the UCT/MRC Human Genetics Research Unit...
08 Mar 2016
UCT closes RiverView accommodation account
The University of Cape Town is concluding a process of finding accommodation for students who arrived on campus in February in need of housing.
08 Mar 2016
25 exceptional young leaders to participate in UCT leadership programme
A group of 25 exceptional young Africans from 6 countries are participating in the second Leading in Public Life Young African Leaders programme at the University of Cape Town, which will take place over 2 weeks.
08 Mar 2016
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