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How you can help shape UCT’s future teaching and learning
Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community about the Learning Platforms Update Project (LPUP).
18 May 2021
UCT alum presented with prestigious Whitley Award
South African conservationist and University of Cape Town (UCT) alum Lucy Kemp has received a prestigious Whitley Award worth over R790 000 to align traditional beliefs with new conservation action that will protect the Southern Ground-hornbill and its habitat.
18 May 2021
Minister Nzimande pledges help to UCT library, students after fire
Visiting our fire-damaged upper campus, the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation promised help and cooperation to UCT Libraries and to students.
18 May 2021
Statement by the UCT executive on the Israeli-Palestine conflict
We are deeply disturbed by the escalating situation in the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Our experience with the democratic transition in South Africa is a lesson about the power of empathy, negotiation and compromise. The escalating situation in Israel and Palestine thus serves as a reminder that intractable conflicts can only be solved through peaceful negotiation.
18 May 2021
UCT professor elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
William Bond, Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Department of Biological Sciences, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific academy. Bond is the seventh South African to be accorded the honour and will join the ranks of other icons of science, including Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking, when he is inducted as a Fellow later this year.
18 May 2021
Emeritus Professor Horst Klump: 1940–2021
Emeritus Professor Horst Klump – from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Biochemistry – passed away on 18 May 2021 after a long illness.
18 May 2021
Mafeje–Jordan Seminar: A Cape radical’s postcolonialism
Emeritus Professor Crain Soudien examines the work of Ben Kies, one of South Africa’s most important yet lesser known political and intellectual figures.
17 May 2021
Community-based TB testing intervention enters critical multilayer phase
The XACT Model project, led by academics in UCT’S Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, has recently entered another multilayer stage.
17 May 2021
Ricardo de Sao Joao
Ricardo de Sao Joao
17 May 2021
People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan
Cryptococcal meningitis is responsible for an estimated 181 000 worldwide in 2014, of which 135 900 were in sub-Saharan Africa, most preventable.
17 May 2021
J.P. Morgan
Charles Harman, Vice Chairman
17 May 2021
UCT alum Lucy Kemp presented with prestigious Whitley Award
UCT alum Lucy Kemp has been awarded for her community approach to conserving the Southern Ground-hornbill.
14 May 2021
Institute of African Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Christine Duff (PhD), Director: Institute of African Studies
14 May 2021
‘Life and Times of Michael K’ at the Baxter this June
The special preview season of Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzee’s “Life and Times of Michael K” runs at The Baxter from 7 to 16 June.
14 May 2021
UCT students return to residences affected by fires
UCT students from Fuller Hall and Smuts Hall have returned to campus after a devasting fire affected their residences.
14 May 2021
UCT professor elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
William Bond, University of Cape Town (UCT) Emeritus Professor and global authority on non-forested ecosystems, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
13 May 2021
South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival is back to (Un)Infect the City
In partnership with the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA), Infecting the City (ITC) – South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival – is back for its 12th edition. It started on 8 May and runs until 30 June 2021 throughout Cape Town’s city centre, in locations across the Cape Flats, and online.
13 May 2021
Help reduce the impact of disposable face masks on the environment
UCT’s director of Environmental Sustainability, Manfred Braune, offers tips on discarding disposable face masks responsibly.
13 May 2021
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