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UCT researchers contribute to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is currently in its Sixth Assessment cycle , during which the IPCC will produce the assessment reports of its three Working Groups, three special reports, a refinement to the methodology report and the synthesis report.
28 Feb 2022
UCT honours country’s top matriculants and first-year scholarship recipients
The University of Cape Town (UCT) recently rolled out the blue carpet when Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng honoured 17 of the country’s top matriculants, now UCT first-year students. Each has earned a Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship for their stellar results.
25 Feb 2022
Efficacious COVID-19 vaccines increase uptake, new global study finds
Despite the unprecedented progress in developing COVID-19 vaccines, global vaccination levels needed to reach herd immunity remain a distant target while new variants keep emerging. According to a new global study, this will change if efficacious vaccines are offered.
24 Feb 2022
An academic by day and actress by night - finance lecturer gets full professorship
To most people, drama and accounting may seem like two poles at opposite ends of the academic spectrum. However, for Professor Gizelle Willows the pursuit of both these passions has led to finding a niche in behavioural finance as well as attaining a number of career highlights. Most recently, she was promoted ad hominem to full professor at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) College of Accounting.
22 Feb 2022
UCT sets its sights on conquering cancer
Despite being on the brink of elimination, more than 600 000 women develop cervical cancer each year. Of that number, 300 000 are lost to the disease. This loss of life has innumerable repercussions for both the women’s families and their communities, leading not only to a breakdown of the family unit but also spiralling cycles of poverty.
21 Feb 2022
Maternal anaemia investigated as a global health priority
University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD candidate Jessica Ringshaw is investigating the impact of maternal anaemia and iron deficiency during pregnancy on the child brain through her recently awarded Wellcome Trust International Training Fellowship.
18 Feb 2022
Works of prize-winning poet and novelist, Tatamkhulu Afrika should be revived
As a writer and poet Tatamkhulu Afrika’s work won many accolades. And yet his contributions to South African literature have been largely neglected, if not forgotten, said Dr Halim Gençoğlu, a University of Cape Town (UCT) Ottoman scholar and research fellow in the Department of Sociology’s Re-Centring Afro Asia Project .
18 Feb 2022
Exploration of biome boundary reveals roots as drivers of biodiversity
Fynbos and Afrotemperate Forest biomes live side by side in the Western Cape, sharing an underlying geology and climatic patterns. Each survives in very different soil, produced by the vegetation. However, the fynbos biome relies on a unique adaptation to keep trees off its turf.
17 Feb 2022
UCT Faculty of Health Sciences affirms the science of vaccinology – challenges misinformation
The University of Cape Town (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences notes with concern and distances itself from public pronouncements which aim to discredit the science of vaccines. This comes at a time when the emergence and rapid spread of the Omicron variant have highlighted the urgent need for people to be vaccinated. With more than 10 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered globally, the science is unambiguous and supported by substantial evidence: COVID-19 vaccines provide strong protection against serious illness, hospitalisation and death.
11 Feb 2022