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UCT in the top 10 in the world in mining and mineral engineering
The ShanghaiRanking’s Global Rankings of Academic Subjects 2017 has placed UCT in the top 10 in the world in mining and mineral engineering.
12 Jul 2017
Young African scholars toasted
A group of young academics were feted at an All Africa House Fellowship Programme workshop at UCT on 12 June.
12 Jul 2017
Cybersecurity boffins to compare notes
UCT, in partnership with Dimension Data, will host the inaugural Cyber Security Symposium Africa from 16 to 19 July on UCT’s middle campus.
12 Jul 2017
Support recovery this Mandela Day
This Mandela Day, support the recovery of Valkenberg Hospital patients by contributing to three initiatives of the Friends of Valkenberg Trust.
12 Jul 2017
‘Let’s make UCT a pluriversal space’
Professor Loretta Feris, the deputy vice-chancellor for transformation, spoke to the UCT newsroom about her first few months in office.
11 Jul 2017
Translating a path to success
Xolisa Guzula is working hard to ensure that isiXhosa-speaking children are able to learn and read in their own language.
11 Jul 2017
The sun never caught Chuma Himonga sleeping
Customary Law expert and advocate Professor Chuma Himonga is the latest recipient of the Alan Pifer Research Award for Socially Responsive Research.
11 Jul 2017
South Africa and the G20: where do we stand on greenhouse gas emissions?
South Africa’s greenhouse gas emissions are high for a developing country, but we are slowly beginning to address this. Andrew Marquard, senior researcher in the Energy Research Centre, discusses South Africa’s progress in addressing climate change.
11 Jul 2017
The South African College of Music and Electrical Engineering working in perfect harmony
Demonstrating interdisciplinary collaboration and excellence, the South African College of Music and an electrical engineering post-doctoral fellow have teamed up on an innovative music application to isolate sounds.
11 Jul 2017
From the Flats to social entrepreneurs
For Brandon Como and Grant Oosterwyk, growing up on the Cape Flats was about economic survival and avoiding gangs. No one talked about university.
11 Jul 2017
New hermit crab species
It has green eyes, a girl’s name and, like other parapagurid species, piggybacks its tentacled lodgers around in a unique biological marriage called symbiosis.
11 Jul 2017
Salt solution: How UCT research is paving the way for zero-waste water treatment
The first full-scale working unit for Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation (EFC) treatment of wastewater will soon be operational at the Tweefontein colliery in Mpumalanga.
11 Jul 2017
New species of deep-water hermit crab discovered at the West Coast
The new species bears the name of University of Cape Town (UCT) alumnus Dr Lara Atkinson, the marine researcher who first noticed it, but it goes by the common name
11 Jul 2017
Mandela Day blanket drive
With Mandela Day coming up on 18 July, the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) Transformation and Events Committee invites you to collect and donate as many blankets as possible.
10 Jul 2017
UCT condemns rape and sexual assault
The University of Cape (UCT) recognises that rape and sexual assault are serious problems in our societies and universities.
09 Jul 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa diabetes threat
The increase of type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa threatens to double the costs associated with the disease by 2030, according to a new report.
07 Jul 2017
What remains is memory
The latest offering from celebrated writer and UCT alumnus Dr Nadia Davids premieres at Hiddingh campus.
07 Jul 2017
It’s about sortilege of sorts
A new art exhibition at the Irma Stern Museum, which runs from 8 to 29 July, displays the artworks of UCT alumnus Nicolaas Maritz.
07 Jul 2017
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