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Advice for #UCTFreshers2018 Seasoned UCT students share their top tips with Freshers entering university for the first time. 28 Feb 2018
Shave or spray in solidarity The annual CANSA Shavathon comes to the Health Sciences campus once more. Shave, spray or donate to show solidarity with those affected by the disease. 28 Feb 2018
SHAWCO: 75 years of giving back SHAWCO is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a fundraising drive to secure future efforts to promote healthcare and education in the community. 28 Feb 2018
UCT’s executive selection process is rigorous and thorough VC Dr Max Price writes to the UCT community about the executive selection process. 28 Feb 2018
Making it through the water crisis Associate Professor Lesley Green warns against selfish survivalism in the face of the water crisis, and urges communities to band together and care for one another. 28 Feb 2018
Small plastic pollution on SA beaches A UCT study has found that most of the plastic polluting South Africa's beaches and coastal waters has not drifted here from distant nations. 27 Feb 2018
100 students make a summer (school) A special Summer School lecture series introduced a cohort of potential students from UCT’s Schools Improvement Initiative’s 100UP programme to campus life. 27 Feb 2018
Visiting United States law Professor Davis to deliver talk on The Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town will host US law Professor Angela J Davis, who is an expert in prosecutorial power and racism in the US criminal justice system, on 1 March. 27 Feb 2018
UCT Libraries taps into water-saving campaign Installing low-flow metered taps, encouraging staff to bring their own water to work and turning off HydroBoils are some of UCT Libraries' water-saving strategies. 26 Feb 2018
You can help cut UCT water use in half VC Dr Max Price writes to the UCT community about water saving initiatives on campus. 26 Feb 2018
Annus mirabilis for refugee clinic’s Khan Each year, Refugee Rights Unit director Fatima Khan tackles a large project. In 2017 she outdid herself, completing a PhD, editing a new book and undertaking a pilgrimage. 26 Feb 2018
Power and racism in the US justice system Visiting Professor of Law Angela Davis will be in conversation with Dean of Law Professor Penny Andrews to discuss power and racism in the US justice system. 26 Feb 2018
Better access to research is vital to advance healthcare in Africa, UCT study finds Researchers from the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town found that 1 in 6 African emergency care publications are inaccessible outside institutional library subscriptions and therefore not accessible to African researchers. 26 Feb 2018
Small plastic pollution on South African beaches comes from local sources - UCT study A study of the small plastic fragments on South Africa's beaches repeated every 10 years since the mid-1990s has found that most plastic pollution derives from local sources. This is important, because it means that we cannot blame distant nations with much larger plastic industries for the poor state of many of our beaches and adjacent coastal waters. 26 Feb 2018
SS Mendi memorial UCT will be hosting a memorial service this weekend to commemorate the men from the South African Native Labour Corps who died aboard the SS Mendi. 23 Feb 2018
Finding opportunity in the water crisis Associate Professor Lesley Green outlines ways in which the water crisis could prompt Cape Town to build a greener and more environmentally resilient city. 21 Feb 2018
VC candidate presentations The two shortlisted candidates for the position of new Vice-Chancellor of UCT gave their presentations to members of various campus constituencies this morning. 21 Feb 2018
UCT civil engineering student wins top national award for water project on waterless urinals With Cape Town experiencing the worst drought in over a century and facing the possibility of Day Zero, a University of Cape Town (UCT) Civil Engineering graduate has won a prestigious award for a project on waterless urinals. 21 Feb 2018
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