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Commemorating Uyinene Mrwetyana and other updates
19 Aug 2020
Commemorating Uyinene Mrwetyana and other updates
19 Aug 2020
Staff survey on emergency remote teaching
Associate Professor Lis Lange writes to staff about the UCT Staff Experience Survey for Term 2.
19 Aug 2020
Study aims to understand tap water sources in South Africa
In an effort to collect spatially representative water samples from across South Africa, researchers at UCT recently enlisted the help of the South African Post Office as project partner.
19 Aug 2020
Post-pandemic property trends
In a recent webinar, UCT’s Associate Professor Francois Viruly presented longer-term trends in South Africa’s property market and considered the impact of COVID-19.
19 Aug 2020
UCT celebrates exceptional educators with highest accolade
Teaching and learning are the core tenets of a university and in order to ensure that students receive the best education possible, there must be exceptional educators that go above and beyond. The University of Cape Town acknowledges the primary place of teaching and learning in the university’s work through the annual Distinguished Teacher Award. It is the highest accolade awarded to teaching staff at all levels within the university and recognises excellent teaching.
19 Aug 2020
Confronting racism in higher education
The third presentation in the Inclusive Practice Speaker Series will explore why racial inequalities continue to manifest at multiple levels in the higher education sector.
18 Aug 2020
Teaching requires passion and commitment
For Professor Andrew Argent, one of four recipients of a 2019 Distinguished Teacher Award, passion, commitment and a good dose of laughter makes a good teacher.
18 Aug 2020
UCT tap water study goes postal
UCT researchers enlisted the help of the South African Post Office to discover the likely sources of tap water across the country.
18 Aug 2020
Emergency medicine team rises above the challenges
UCT emergency medicine specialists set up a system to cope with the wave of COVID-19 patients at the Mitchells Plain District Hospital and the Heideveld Emergency Centre.
18 Aug 2020
Mask education project burgeons into creative remote teaching collaboration
An interdisciplinary postgraduate fieldwork project showed UCT students coming together online to educate children about face masks and COVID-19.
18 Aug 2020
Making the postgrad international experience more equitable
The next instalment in UCT's series of challenging conversations – Unleashing the new global university – is scheduled for Monday 24 August 2020.
17 Aug 2020
Innovative tech ear solution for face masks designed for frontline workers
UCT MSc student in biomedical engineering Lara Timm has designed an ear saver solution, UCT Hearo, to assist the clinical partners and members of UCT’s COVID-19 Research Task Team, who experienced the discomforts of wearing a mask fixed around the ears for hours on end.
17 Aug 2020
Vision 2030: The world is changing, are we?
In a second Vision 2030 engagement session with staff, DVC Prof Sue Harrison discussed how UCT will address its transformation purpose through research.
17 Aug 2020
Distinguished teacher Amrita Pande’s classroom is her theatre
Educator-performer and co-head of UCT’s sociology department, Associate Professor Amrita Pande, is one of four recipients of the 2019 Distinguished Teacher Award.
17 Aug 2020
Female students making difference through technology for Ocean View community
Two UCT computer science honours students have carved out opportunities during COVID-19 by developing apps that will benefit the community of Ocean View in Cape Town.
17 Aug 2020
Working together to meet the funding challenge for soft-funded researchers
Professor Sue Harrison writes to staff and students about the funding challenge for soft-funded researchers.
17 Aug 2020
UCT Women’s Day Celebration Event
This year’s virtual Women’s Day event celebrated the womxn of UCT by highlighting their research on gender-based violence, contraception, HIV risk and building capacity in the field of oceanography.
17 Aug 2020
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