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UCT centres lead the way
29 Dec 2011
UCT engineers help make medical history
22 Dec 2011
Flowery gift for Groote Schuur patients
21 Dec 2011
Graduation '“ Days Five and Six
20 Dec 2011
Graduation - Day Four
15 Dec 2011
Graduation - Day Three
14 Dec 2011
Graduation - Day Two
13 Dec 2011
Space satellites help UCT researcher dive into study of southern African ocean currents
Marjolaine Rouault's PhD thesis, Agulhas current variability determined from space: a multi-sensor approach, used complex earth observation techniques to study the major ocean currents around southern Africa.
13 Dec 2011
Law reform needed to aid conservation and land reform, according to new UCT research
An array of broad legislative reforms can bridge the divide between South Africa's conservation and land reform imperatives, by improving the use of communally conserved areas and the management of the country's dwindling natural commons. This is according to Alexander Paterson, a PhD graduand in Public Law at the University of Cape Town.
13 Dec 2011
UCT researcher seeks to boost tourism industry
A candidate for a PhD in Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town has proposed ways to make the tourism industry in South Africa more competitive and innovative through the protection of intellectual property. Caroline Ncube's thesis, >i>Intellectual property protection for e-commerce business methods in South Africa: Envisioning an equitable model for SMEs in the tourism industry, examines how intellectual property law should protect e-commerce business methods to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in tourism, one of South Africa's immediate priority sectors, are not disadvantaged.
13 Dec 2011
UCT PhD research provides insights into mood disorders
Three doctoral graduands at the University of Cape Town will receive their degrees at December graduation for their respective research into the relationship between psychopathology and substance use - especially cannabis; mood disorders; the positive effects of feeling guilty; and the impact of early trauma on the brain's natural painkiller system.
13 Dec 2011
UCT researcher develops self-regulating vacuum dressing for wounds
University of Cape Town doctoral student Dr Nicolas Kairinos' thesis, The biomechanics of negative-pressure wound therapy, finds that, contrary to common perception, negative-pressure wound dressings do not reduce tissue pressure but increase it, resulting in accelerated wound healing.
13 Dec 2011
New UCT research dips into water management issues
Three graduands at the University of Cape Town will receive their doctoral degrees this month for their research into water management. In their respective theses they compare water use by indigenous trees with that of alien species; consider how low-flow events affect rivers; and examine the use of algae as water quality indicators in KwaZulu-Natal rivers.
13 Dec 2011
Taxation can slow global warming behaviour - UCT research
Concerns about the political and economic consequences of carbon taxation are not necessarily justified, and such taxes can provide a cost-effective means of changing human behaviour and encouraging technological improvements in the use of fossil fuels, according to Nadia Kamm, a PhD graduand in Public Law at the University of Cape Town.
13 Dec 2011