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Healthcare for all is possible Dr Solomon Benatar, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UCT, delivered the second annual Dr Stuart John Saunders Lecture on Wednesday, 27 November. 29 Nov 2019
VC Award winners give children a head start Pioneering work in contracting and financing early childhood development has won the Bertha Centre’s Dr Susan de Witt and Barry Panulo a Vice-Chancellor’s Global Citizenship Award. 29 Nov 2019
Safety first: VC Award for big picture thinker Responsible for chemical health and safety in the chemistry and chemical engineering departments, Monique Muller has won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Service Excellence. 29 Nov 2019
Sustainability key for new SRC The newly elected SRC for 2019/2020 is committed to creating and implementing sustainable programmes that will outlive their term of office. 28 Nov 2019
Brain injury and infection in children Dr Ursula Rohlwink, with UCT's Division of Neurosurgery, has focused her work on children with traumatic brain injury and the neuro-infection TB meningitis. 28 Nov 2019
Community building for cleaning, catering teams UCT’s first annual general meeting for residence cleaning and catering staff was about celebration and consolidation – and building a healthy community. 27 Nov 2019
HIV factor in kidney transplants: research sheds new light on risks UCT’s Dr Elmi Muller and colleagues looked at the longer-term outcomes of HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive renal transplantation. 27 Nov 2019 Republished
Safeguarding the judiciary New research and guidelines from UCT could lead to more transparent selection of judicial officers in southern Africa. 27 Nov 2019
Students head to national computing competition final Two student teams from UCT will participate in the gruelling second and final round of the Centre for High Performance Computing’s Student Cluster Competition. 26 Nov 2019
UCT scientist takes to the catwalk UCT PhD student Lyle Curry is one of 13 full-figured men who will model a new plus-size men’s range at the Radisson RED Hotel at the V&A Waterfront. 26 Nov 2019 Republished
Inside growing brains Safe and non-invasive techniques for visualising the brain have changed the way we study children’s development, particularly in high-risk contexts. 22 Nov 2019
Prestigious scholarship for star pupil Prospective UCT student Terrell Demorgan has been awarded the inaugural Daniel Samuel Maseko Memorial Scholarship for 2020. 22 Nov 2019
Co-creating a locally relevant web Dr Melissa Densmore’s research into bandwidth-constrained communities in and around Cape Town tackles difficult questions about what the internet should look like in Africa. 22 Nov 2019
The highest energy light from a gamma-ray burst detected UCT astronomers are part of an international team that have taken the next step towards understanding extreme stellar explosions. 21 Nov 2019
The dead teach in a universal language Dissection is core to teaching anatomy but how do UCT’s second-year medical students prepare for their first clinical encounter with the dead? 21 Nov 2019
UCT prof leads ground-breaking pollen monitoring campaign The Division of Allergology and Immunology at UCT’s Lung Institute is leading a multidisciplinary project that examines the levels of pollen across South Africa. 20 Nov 2019
Tackling HIV: one haircut at a time In collaboration with Legends Barbershop, the Amajita Tutu Truck gave 50 men free HIV tests and complimentary haircuts on International Men’s Day on 19 November. 20 Nov 2019
Mining for the future The Minerals to Metals Initiative at UCT is working with the mining industry to help it become more people- and planet-centred. 20 Nov 2019
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