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Additional study spaces made available on campus Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community about additional study spaces made available on campus. 14 Apr 2021

Launch of the University Panel on Responsible Investment 14 Apr 2021

A blood test to find those at high risk of tuberculosis in people living with HIV A new study has reported findings of a host blood test that can find those at high risk of tuberculosis (TB) in people living with HIV. The blood mRNA biomarker differentiated between people living with HIV who had active TB from those without TB and predicted which individuals would develop TB within 15 months. 14 Apr 2021

COVID-19: UCT math modeller makes her mark It’s been a non-stop rollercoaster ride for Dr Sheetal Silal since she joined the SA COVID-19 Modelling Consortium in its fight against the novel coronavirus. 14 Apr 2021

UCT professor appointed to head Law and Society Association’s global portfolio University of Cape Town (UCT) law expert Professor Dee Smythe – a “pioneer in the field of law and society in Africa” – has been appointed as the Law and Society Association’s (LSA) inaugural coordinator of global activities (CGA). 14 Apr 2021

Letter to IOL about Naidu and the student suicide An article in The Sunday Independent (“Emergency council meeting as UCT crisis deepens”, 12 April 2021) attempts to draw a connection between the tragedy of a student’s death in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and a series of recent, unrelated events at the executive level of the University of Cape Town (UCT). In effect, a personal tragedy was hijacked to present a distorted view of the wider management landscape at UCT. 14 Apr 2021

UCT professor heads Law and Society Association’s global activities portfolio The Law and Society Association, an interdisciplinary organisation for sociolegal scholars, has appointed UCT’s Professor Dee Smythe as its inaugural coordinator of global activities. 14 Apr 2021

UCT publishes first Sesotho book in open access continental platform The University of Cape Town (UCT) Libraries, in collaboration with the Department of African Languages and Literatures will have a virtual book launch of Dikeledi ha di wele fatshe (loosely translated means, tears do not fall in vain) authored by Dr Rethabile Possa-Mogoera on 15 April 17:00 to 18:00 via MS Teams. 14 Apr 2021

Inaugural #RhodesMustFall Scholarship Public Lecture On 9 April, Emeritus Professor Njabulo S Ndebele presented the first #RhodesMustFall Scholarship Public Lecture. 14 Apr 2021

Financial support for students affected by 2021 exclusions in NSFAS funded programmes Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community about financial support for students affected by 2021 exclusions in NSFAS funded programmes. 13 Apr 2021

Hon doc for Daya Reddy Renowned mathematician and National Research Foundation A-rated scholar Emeritus Professor Daya Reddy received an honorary doctorate from Stellenbosch University. 13 Apr 2021

‘You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it’ Fahiem Jattiem’s positive mindset has been key to beating the odds, which include being given just one year to live. 13 Apr 2021

#RhodesMustFall Scholarship Fund and annual lecture launched Following an initiative of the Rhodes Must Fall Scholarship Committee, as proposed by student activists, UCT recently launched a scholarship fund and public lecture. 12 Apr 2021

Review finds South African healthcare workers are at high risk of contracting hepatitis B South African healthcare workers were found to be at high risk of contracting hepatitis B, according to a review recently published in the Current Opinion in Immunology journal. 12 Apr 2021

Archaeology is first science department with black staff majority Two new appointments have seen the Department of Archaeology mark a milestone – the first science department to achieve a black staff majority. 12 Apr 2021

Graeme Bloch:1956–2021 Struggle stalwart, higher education activist and beloved UCT alumnus and former Council member Graeme Bloch has died at the age of 65. 09 Apr 2021

UCT’s first-ever Google Research Scholars Program recipients Associate Professor Amir Patel and Dr Mohohlo Tsoeu, both from the University of Cape Town’s Department of Electrical Engineering and its newly formed African Robotics Unit , have become the institution’s first-ever recipients of search engine giant Google’s Research Scholar Program. They are also the only Africans in the Program’s 2021 cohort . 09 Apr 2021

Ancient secrets from the understudied Kalahari Flipping the coastal narrative of human origins, a new study from UCT researchers working with local and international collaborators shows our ancestors lived in a wet Kalahari Basin 100 000 years ago. 09 Apr 2021

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