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World AIDS Day: Top scientists seek to improve diagnosis, treatment of HIV-associated fungal infections
Serious fungal infections are a global threat to human health. Many of these severe infections occur in people living with HIV. Four HIV-associated fungal infections - cryptococcal meningitis, histoplasmosis, Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) and talaromycosis - are responsible for over 20% of all AIDS-related deaths globally.
30 Nov 2022
UCT’s researchers among the world’s most cited scholars
Three University of Cape Town (UCT) academics – Emeritus Professor William Bond, Professor Estelle (Vicki) Lambert and Professor Dan Stein – are among the world’s most cited scholars , according to the Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list published by data analytics firm Clarivate.
24 Nov 2022
UCT students win international cybersecurity competition
Four University of Cape Town (UCT) Information Systems (IS) honours students won the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge – an international cybersecurity policy competition. The event was hosted by the Atlantic Council and UCT’s Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa (C3SA) in Monkey Valley Resort, Noordhoek, Cape Town.
23 Nov 2022
Symposium to address experiences of disabled youth in the schooling system
The University of Cape Town (UCT) will host a Disability Symposium to cover the findings of multinational researchers in disability. The research looked at the experiences of disabled youth as they transitioned through the education system in ‘middle’ school, high school and university.
21 Nov 2022
UCT 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children expert list
The media can contact the following academics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) for comment during the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children, which runs from 25 November to 10 December 2022.
21 Nov 2022
UCT project provides psychosocial support for new teachers
It was not the beginning of the end for the 2022 cohort of newly qualified teachers; quite the contrary. Rather, it was the end of the beginning of a journey of service – to the learners who have passed through their classrooms this year, and to all those who will follow in their footsteps.
14 Nov 2022
UCT master’s student scoops award for Delft stormwater basin project
University of Cape Town (UCT) student Tauhir Rakiep has won the Best Student/Research Project category of the inaugural #cocreate Blue-Green Cities Design Awards for his proposal to convert a Delft stormwater basin into a bioretention pond and a valuable natural public amenity, a blue-green oasis in a densely built setting.
11 Nov 2022
UCT’s cheetah locomotion study gets R2.2 million funding boost
Robotics and artificial intelligence can be used to great effect in Africa – especially if we, as Africans, can control the narrative, said Associate Professor Amir Patel, the director of the African Robotics Unit (ARU) based in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
10 Nov 2022
Research into Cape Town helicopter rescue missions raises awareness of mountain and water safety
When that well-known bright red helicopter hovers above in the city or surrounding areas, Capetonians know that someone is in trouble – at sea or along the mountain side – and that helicopter, carrying advanced life support paramedics, has been dispatched to help.
10 Nov 2022
UCT digital project is making isiXhosa texts accessible to contemporary African scholars
Dr Jacques de Wet of the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is leading a team in establishing a digital archive to make early isiXhosa publications authored by African intellectuals easily available for research. Through his own teaching and research, he has begun to introduce these African thinkers into contemporary sociology.
08 Nov 2022
UCT part of multi-million research project to decarbonise aviation
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is one of the partners in a €40 million (approximately R718 million) three-year research project that aims to develop and improve next-generation catalysts that will play a large role in decarbonising the aviation sector by creating sustainable aviation fuels.
07 Nov 2022
Endangered humpback dolphins more vulnerable than previously thought in South African waters
A recent study published in Integrative Zoology demonstrated a high incidence of abnormal beak (rostrum) conditions in South African humpback dolphins, highlighting a previously unreported threat to this endangered population.
04 Nov 2022