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Faculty of Humanities graduation ceremony - 13 December at 14:30
Students from the Faculty of Humanities were robed at a graduation ceremony yesterday afternoon, 13 December, which also saw the awarding of the UCT Book Award, the UCT Creative Works Award, and an alumnus returning to his alma mater to present the keynote address.
13 Dec 2018
Renaming Memorial Hall Sarah Baartman Hall
A joint message from the Chair of Council and the Vice-Chancellor about the renaming of Memorial Hall as Sarah Baartman Hall.
13 Dec 2018
Twin cities connect struggle and liberation sites
Associate Professor Svea Josephy received a Creative Works Award for her solo exhibition, Satellite Cities, at today’s graduation. It is one of three such awards.
13 Dec 2018
Symphony of elements wins Creative Works Award
Professor Hendrik Hofmeyr, of the South African College of Music, receives a Creative Works Award at today’s graduation for his composition Second Symphony – The Elements.
13 Dec 2018
Creative Works Award for Womb of Fire
Dr Sara Matchett’s Creative Works Award winner, Womb of Fire, addresses how centuries of violence in South Africa continue to play out on women’s bodies.
13 Dec 2018
UCT Book Award for classics scholar
Professor David Wardle’s work Suetonius: Life of Augustus has won him the 2018 UCT Book Award.
13 Dec 2018
UCT Vice-Chancellor’s robing ceremony at a special graduation
Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng was officially robed as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town on 13 December 2018.
13 Dec 2018
December graduation 2018
The 2018 December graduation season featured six ceremonies, including the official robing of Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng.
13 Dec 2018
Burst of energy from new UCT lecturers
The completion of the New Academic Practitioners’ Programme (NAPP) was cause for celebration for 20 new lecturers at UCT.
13 Dec 2018
UCT student overcomes odds to be the first post-doctoral graduate in her department
Tafadzwa Mushonga will be the first PhD graduate from the Centre for Environmental Humanities South (CEHS) when she graduates on 14 December at the University of Cape Town (UCT). But her path towards graduation has involved major setbacks. A big blow came early in her academic career when she suffered the loss of her role model, her father. His death in 2006 was followed five years later by the loss of her mother.
13 Dec 2018
‘Razor-sharp intellect, exceptional humility’
UCT alumnus and a founding trustee of the university trust, Nobel Prize winner Sir Aaron Klug is remembered for his “razor-sharp intellect”, yet “exceptional humility”.
12 Dec 2018
Commitment, passion and dogged determination
Due to graduate with a PhD in Medical Biochemistry, Kehilwe Nakedi reflects on her academic journey and the pleasure of seeing things finally fall into place.
12 Dec 2018
DataFirst rescues historical apartheid-era datasets
UCT’s DataFirst research data service has partnered with Rhodes University and the University of KwaZulu-Natal to rescue two historical datasets.
12 Dec 2018
An extra special Golden Grad celebration
Golden Grad Madi Gray, a veteran of the nine-day Bremner sit-in of 1968, will be among other UCT alumni celebrating their Golden Graduation this week.
12 Dec 2018
International honour for cardiology fellow
UCT’s Dr Charle Viljoen has been honoured with the 2018 International Resident Leadership Award by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
12 Dec 2018
Complex systems help explain how democracy is destabilised
The science of complex systems offers a new entry point to studying the vulnerabilities of democratic systems.
12 Dec 2018
Gugulethu-born UCT graduand uses education to rise above challenges
Sonwabo Ngcelwane will receive his master's degree in Sociology from the University of Cape Town (UCT), with distinction, this week. It is his third degree and fifth tertiary qualification. From a young age, Ngcelwane has seen education as the key to rising above one's circumstances - no matter how challenging. Whenever he has faced obstacles, throwing himself into his studies has helped him gain perspective and maintain an even keel.
12 Dec 2018
UCT to host VC robing ceremony and announce Memorial Hall renaming
The University of Cape Town will host a media briefing during which the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, will make a historic announcement on the renaming of the Memorial Hall.
12 Dec 2018
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