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Innovative student trio create giant fabric ‘intestine’ to promote recycling culture
A group of environmentally conscious University of Cape Town (UCT) students have created a giant 90 m sculpture on UCT’s upper campus plaza in a unique effort to increase awareness on the benefits of recycling and to inspire positive change among the campus community.
16 May 2022
UCT students among global young leaders in Antarctica Expedition tackling climate change
A sudden hailstorm at sea in the Antarctic while studying glaciers from a Zodiac inflatable would unnerve any adventurer. For the unseasoned visitor, rapid weather changes in the south polar region can be especially alarming, said University of Cape Town (UCT) humanities student Madina Mothupi.
16 May 2022
UCT part of global parenting initiative awarded more than R200 million by LEGO Foundation
The LEGO Foundation is awarding a £11 million (̴ R218 million) five-year grant to international research aimed at developing and providing free, evidence-based, playful parenting support to every parent all over the world.
13 May 2022
UCT to host World Conference on Research Integrity: Fostering research integrity in an unequal society
To optimally serve society, scientific research needs to be built on trust. The field of research integrity exists to ensure responsible research practices, so that society can trust the outcomes of research and researchers can trust each other to build upon existing research.
12 May 2022
Invite: Leveraging community and stakeholder perspectives on solutions to disaster risk management in the Cape Flats
The Future Water Institute at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is collaborating with three vulnerable Cape Flats communities (Delft, Overcome Heights and Sweet Home Farm), local and international academic institutions and non-profit organisations to address three inter-connected climate change induced environmental hazards, i.e., drought-related water shortages and poor water quality; frequent flooding; and large-scale recurrent fire outbreaks.
10 May 2022
SA healthcare workers lack critical knowledge on new ARV drug
A concerning number of healthcare workers (HCWs) in South Africa lack sufficient understanding of how the antiretroviral (ARV) drug dolutegravir (DTG) interacts with medicines prescribed to treat tuberculosis (TB), diabetes and epilepsy. This knowledge gap could result in largescale, dire ramifications for people living with HIV.
04 May 2022
UCT's Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance signs five-year partnership with United Nations college
The University of Cape Town (UCT) through its Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance and the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will guide cooperation between the institutions over the next five years.
03 May 2022
The 20-week tobacco sales ban of 2020 greatly disrupted the cigarette market - UCT study
A recently published paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research found that the 20-week ban on the sale of cigarettes in 2020 greatly disrupted the cigarette market in South Africa. Despite the fact that the sale of cigarettes was illegal, most smokers were able to access them, but at a hugely inflated price.
03 May 2022
Invite: Student leaders reflect on #FeesMustFall violence
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Student Affairs in partnership with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) invites you to the exhibition titled, Aftermath: Violence and wellbeing in the context of the student movement , taking place from Tuesday, 3 May until Thursday, 5 May 2022.
03 May 2022
Invite: The three theses of decolonisation and the school curriculum – UCT Mafeje-Jordan Seminar Series
At the third instalment of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Mafeje-Jordan Seminar Series 2021, Edwin Etieyibo, professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand and adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada, will present on why decolonising the school curriculum is important.
31 May 2021
The origin of African jackals revealed – new study
New research published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has found the origin of some of the most emblematic groups of African carnivorous mammals: jackals. The international group of researchers describe a new species of canid (current family that includes foxes, wolves, and jackals) named Eucyon khoikhoi , providing vital information about the origin of the group outside of North America – where the canidae family originated from more than 35 million years ago.
31 May 2021
UCT professor elected as Fellow of South African Academy of Engineering
Harro von Blottnitz, professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT), has been elected a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering (SAAE). His election places him among an elite group of 213 fellows who straddle the worlds of academia and industry, and who are considered thought leaders in their fields.
28 May 2021
Response by UCT and the Faculty of Health Sciences to email smears against the university’s academic in relation to the proposed River Club development
The University of Cape Town (UCT) and its Faculty of Health Sciences notes with great concern the email smears against academic, Professor Leslie London, regarding his activities with the Observatory Civic Association (OCA) in relation to the highly contentious proposed River Club development. Professor London is an accomplished and highly respected UCT academic, with a substantial history of engaged scholarship, specifically in the area of human rights advocacy and activism.
27 May 2021
Orchid sexually exploits male beetles – a world first from Africa
Dr Callan Cohen, a research associate of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , has discovered a world pollination first: an orchid that sexually exploits longhorn beetles. The near-extinct Disa forficaria , known from a single remaining plant in the mountains near Cape Town, mimics a female beetle so convincingly that the male beetle mates with the flower, thus pollinating it.
27 May 2021
Decolonising ecology? How to adopt practices that make science more equitable
Knowledge systems outside of those sanctioned by Western universities have often been marginalised or simply not engaged with in many science disciplines, but there are multiple examples where Western scientists have claimed discoveries for knowledge that resident experts already knew and shared. This demonstrates not a lack of knowledge itself but rather that, for many scientists raised in Western society, little education concerning histories of systemic oppression has been by design. Western scientific knowledge has also been used to justify social and environmental control, including dispossessing colonised people of their land and ways of life and discounting existing knowledge systems.
24 May 2021