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UCT’s ‘Young Mandelas’ There’s no better tribute on Mandela Day than the UCT staff, students and alumni featured among the 2019 News24 100 Young Mandelas of the Future. 18 Jul 2019
Ensuring students know they are seen and heard VC Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng told the THE Leadership Summit that in times of conflict, it’s best to meet students on their own turf. 18 Jul 2019 Republished
Making UCT a living lab for environmental sustainability UCT can become a living laboratory for research on environmental sustainability while fulfilling its responsibilities to maintain a green campus. But it will need all hands on deck. 18 Jul 2019
Redressing apartheid’s spatial injustices The British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship Lecture in Spatial Justice looked at the role of law in the perpetuation and undoing of the spatial legacy of apartheid. 17 Jul 2019
Global architecture honour for UCT professor A prestigious global architecture honour has been conferred on UCT’s Emeritus Professor Dave Dewar’s company for their work in the Agulhas National Park. 17 Jul 2019
Inclusivity critical for first-generation students Institutional culture has an enormous role to play when teaching students who are the first in their family to attend university, research finds. 17 Jul 2019
Animals shrinking from climate change UCT researchers and their colleagues find evidence supporting the idea that climate change can shrink Earth’s animals. 17 Jul 2019
Predicting lecture attendance behaviour A masterʼs candidateʼs research findings, presented at the 2019 UCT Teaching and Learning Conference, shed some light on what determines students’ lecture attendance. 17 Jul 2019
Shutting down SA’s nuclear future It’s time to redirect taxpayers’ money from shoring up the ailing Pelindaba nuclear research precinct to focus on innovations in the sustainable energy field. 16 Jul 2019 Republished
Running for Red Cross’s Weekend Waiting List Initiative Join UCT Surgical Society students and scrub in for a 10 km run to raise funds for a special surgical programme at Red Cross Children’s Hospital. 16 Jul 2019
Teaching and learning through community engagement A presentation on research into community-engaged teaching and learning fell squarely within the “re-imagining higher education” theme of the 2019 UCT Teaching and Learning Conference. 16 Jul 2019
UCT students run perimeter of eSwatini Two UCT students ran 640 km in 15 days to circumnavigate the Kingdom of eSwatini to raise awareness of healthcare challenges faced by rural communities. 15 Jul 2019
Collaboration is key at maths symposium A collaborative project is bringing mathematicians from across the country together in an attempt to improve student performance in maths, which is fundamental to all STEM programmes. 15 Jul 2019
Polar cyclones, Antarctic sea ice and a cruise to understand it all UCT researchers are heading to Antarctica to study the winter conditions and sea ice there – something we know surprisingly little about. 15 Jul 2019
‘Accelerate transformation at UCT’ Denis Goldberg, struggle stalwart and recipient of an honorary doctorate from UCT, says turning the university around will be a “helluva task”. 12 Jul 2019
UCT VC centre stage at U7+ Alliance Summit UCT Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng was part of a five-member panel that addressed international media at the close of the inaugural U7+ Alliance Summit in Paris. 12 Jul 2019
Plastic: unpacking the media hype The focus on the environmental threat of plastic is detracting from challenges that threaten the very existence of humans, and millions of other species. 12 Jul 2019 Republished
The boy who would build a nation While Denis Goldberg never built SA’s own Suez Canal, the UCT honorary doctorate recipient certainly became one of the country’s finest nation-builders. 11 Jul 2019
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