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Leading sports injury clinic 'goes public'
16 Oct 2015
Six new UCT fellows announced
16 Oct 2015
How plants dupe dung beetles into burying their seeds
12 Oct 2015
Severed head suggests ancient ritual rather than trophy-taking
12 Oct 2015
Bones, birds and dinosaurs: the tale of an accidental palaeobiologist
12 Oct 2015
Debunking the myth that orality trumps literacy in Africa
12 Oct 2015
Stem cells may hold the key to fixing a mutated gene that causes blindness
12 Oct 2015
UCT's young 'upstarts' take flight
12 Oct 2015
Cities in the Global South: crucibles of change
UCT's African Centre for Cities (ACC) aims to understand and work with cities on their own terms, and to create the interdisciplinary knowledge base needed to support the emergence of more equitable African cities; cities that are liveable and sustainable.
12 Oct 2015
UCT/UN workplace programme to examine leadership in Africa
The University of Cape Town, in partnership with the United Nations System Staff College and research and development organisation SCEZONS, will host the 2015 UN Leaders Programme at the River Club in Observatory on 12-16 October 2015.
12 Oct 2015
Comms and marketing team comes up trumps at the MACE awards
11 Oct 2015
UCT hosts gathering of senior UN leaders
09 Oct 2015
UN prioritises mental health in Development Agenda2030
08 Oct 2015
UCT launches new initiative to recruit, develop and retain academic talent
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has recently launched a new initiative to advance the development of black academics and to ensure the university expands and accelerates the pipeline to transform the professoriate. The Recruitment, Development and Retention programme (RDR) is an umbrella for a number of constituent initiatives that will furnish academic staff with greater clarity in their career paths and provide targeted support to help them to succeed.
08 Oct 2015
UCT Vice-Chancellor to run for mental health on 11 October
Dr Max Price, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, will run alongside other Western Cape academics in the Gun Run in support of mental health care for economically disadvantaged people.
08 Oct 2015
UCT team smashes 8-year water rocket world altitude record
A team from the University of Cape Town's Industrial Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Group has successfully broken the longstanding Class A water rocket world altitude record by a massive 33%, achieving a height of 830m.
08 Oct 2015
UCT team smashes eight-year water rocket world altitude record
07 Oct 2015
Happy birthday, Arch!
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who was born on 7 October 1931, turns 84 today.
07 Oct 2015
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