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Exam season set to start
Preparations for the final exams have been successfully concluded at the exam centre on the UCT rugby fields in readiness for the first exams on Wednesday, 15 November 2017.
14 Nov 2017
Super student leaders celebrated
UCT’s top student leaders were hailed at the annual Student Leadership Awards ceremony on 31 October 2017.
14 Nov 2017
GSB case-study wins again
A case study examining the collapse of African Bank has been awarded first place in an annual competition that focuses on corporate governance in Africa.
14 Nov 2017
Heather Zar named 2018 Woman in Science Laureate
Heather Zar has been announced as a 2018 L’Oreal–UNESCO Women in Science Laureate for Africa and the Arab States, for her wide-ranging contributions to child health in Africa and the developing world.
13 Nov 2017
The new eyes on UCT’s dam
Cape Town’s water crisis presents an opportunity for researchers to contribute to finding solutions in the water field, starting with UCT’s upper-campus dam.
10 Nov 2017
PhD candidate wins international green award
PhD student Megan Lukas was one of 25 green visionaries honoured at the International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development in Germany.
10 Nov 2017
PhD student hones research in Germany
Khangelani Vuke, a doctoral student in UCT’s Department of Information Systems, has returned enriched from an exchange programme to Philipps University in Germany.
09 Nov 2017
Pietersen is the province’s best librarian
UCT librarian Jeremiah Pietersen has won the LIASA Librarian of the Year 2017 Second Runner-up Award.
09 Nov 2017
Tracking collars reveal city baboons’ raiding tactics
UCT scientists are part of an international team using tracking collars to reveal how city baboons use a sit-and-wait tactic before raiding people’s homes.
08 Nov 2017
How did the francolin evolve?
The partridge family described by Carl Linnaeus, the grandfather of taxonomy, is actually an evolutionarily unrelated group of gamebirds, say UCT researchers.
08 Nov 2017
Top accolades for UCT researchers
Two researchers from the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine have been honoured with top scientific merit awards.
07 Nov 2017
In pursuit of agricultural productivity
A new study into the Ugandan sugar-cane industry undertaken by the UCT Graduate School of Business offers insights into issues holding back African agricultural productivity.
07 Nov 2017
Introducing ZivaHub: Open Data UCT
The newly launched institutional data repository, ZivaHub, will help UCT researchers make their data findable, accessible, shareable and reusable.
07 Nov 2017
McIntyre bows out with NHI talk
Health economist Professor Di McIntyre will deliver her valedictory lecture, focusing on SA’s National Health Insurance plan, at UCT on 9 November 2017.
07 Nov 2017
Dr Cecil ‘Doc’ Moss: a tribute to ‘true gentleman’ of rugby
Springbok, Western Province and UCT rugby icon Dr Cecil ‘Doc’ Moss died on 27 October. Moss, a UCT medical alumnus, was honorary president of the UCT Rugby Football Club.
06 Nov 2017
Is Cape Town’s drought the new normal?
UCT’s Climate System Analysis Group looks at 100 years of data to give us an idea of the future of Cape Town’s rainfall patterns.
01 Nov 2017
Republished
UCT start-up awarded for breakthrough heart valve
Strait Access Technologies – a UCT start-up company – has received two global awards for innovation in cardiac surgery for their new life-saving and cost-cutting heart valve.
01 Nov 2017
Rehearsing rehabilitation
UCT postgrads are working with a drama programme that aims to support prisoners during their reintegration into society.
31 Oct 2017
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