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Day Zero is meant to cut Cape Town’s water use: what is it, and is it working? The possibility of reaching Day Zero - and the devastating consequences that it will bring - has focused everyone's attention on tightly managing water consumption. 20 Feb 2018 Republished
Help keep Day Zero at bay You can do a lot in your office to keep Day Zero at bay. These five simple tips will help you start saving water today. 20 Feb 2018
SAICE award for urine research project Graduate Tinashe Chipako has won the 2018 South African Institution of Civil Engineering National Investigative Project Showdown for his research project on waterless urinals at UCT. 20 Feb 2018
A warm welcome to UCT UCT rounded off its annual orientation programme with Plaza Week and Sax Appeal Day. 20 Feb 2018
How the placenta can shed light on HIV mothers and their babies In many parts of the world, the human placenta (the after birth) is discarded once a baby is born and considered waste. The focus is on the child and the new mother. 20 Feb 2018 Republished
The unexpected appetites of predators in the Karoo An extensive study on the eating habits of predators on farms and a reserve in the Karoo has yielded some surprising findings. 20 Feb 2018
Results from innovative tuberculosis vaccine trial show potential for new revaccination strategies Scientists from the University of Cape Town's South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) and the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation will present the findings of an innovative clinical trial that provides encouraging new evidence that TB vaccines could prevent sustained TB infections in high-risk adolescents. 20 Feb 2018
Kwame Nkrumah award for Millar Professor Robert Millar, a member of UCT’s Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, has been awarded the Kwame Nkrumah Award for Scientific Excellence. 19 Feb 2018
Get involved, says Oxford-bound scholarship winner As an international student, Chanda Chungu’s determination to engage fully in student life at UCT set the foundations for the graduate’s Beit Trust Scholarship to study at Oxford. 19 Feb 2018
UCT research group notes shortcomings in the National Minimum Wage Bill The Department of Labour is considering one of the biggest changes to South Africa's labour laws since 1995 by, amongst other things, introducing a National Minimum Wage (NMW). The NMW Bill will set a wage of at least R20 for workers across all sectors of the economy subject to lower wages in the domestic and farming sectors. 19 Feb 2018
UCT and Eskom partnership brings change in the energy sector A new research group, the Applied Thermo Fluid Process Modelling Research Unit (ATProM), is building on an existing collaboration between the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Eskom to provide engineers with up-to-date research, students with real-world experience and solutions to some of the challenges facing ageing energy infrastructure in South Africa. 19 Feb 2018
VC candidate presentations and other updates 16 Feb 2018
Blockchain hackathon winners Two UCT students were part of a team that won the recent Unlock the Block blockchain hackathon, hosted by the AIFMRM and Linum Labs. 16 Feb 2018
Dual desalination could increase water yield Though currently expensive, eutectic freeze crystallisation, a process used to treat mine waste water, could boost fresh water yields from seawater following desalinisation. 16 Feb 2018
Inaugural Lecture: Professor Maano Ramutsindela VC Dr Max Price writes to the UCT community about Professor Maano Ramutsindela’s inaugural lecture. 16 Feb 2018
Dual desalination could increase water yield Reverse osmosis followed by eutectic freeze crystallisation, a process used to treat mine waste water, could boost fresh water yields during seawater desalination finds research by a chemical engineering student. 16 Feb 2018
Sustaining live art in Africa In a bid to connect performance artists across the continent, the Institute for Creative Arts is launching the Live Art Network Africa. 15 Feb 2018
UCT study to uncover why brains seize Over the past 5 years, a University of Cape Town (UCT) scientist has been able to establish the necessary local technology to study the function of individual brain cells which aims to uncover why brains seize - resulting in the development of epileptic seizures. 15 Feb 2018
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