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New UCT Irma Stern Museum website supports art education nationally
The recently launched University of Cape Town (UCT) Irma Stern Museum (ISM) website enables the public to virtually ‘visit’ the museum as the COVID-19 pandemic continues while also supporting teaching and learning in South African schools.
20 Oct 2020
COVID-19 multitool opens communal doors, taps - minimises surface contamination
A novel multitool designed by a University of Cape Town (UCT) electrical engineering team will make opening doors and taps much safer for communities who rely on communal facilities but are wary of COVID-19 contaminating public surfaces.A novel multitool designed by a University of Cape Town (UCT) electrical engineering team will make opening doors and taps much safer for communities who rely on communal facilities but are wary of COVID-19 contaminating public surfaces.
20 Oct 2020
Sustainable Development Goals can help with post-COVID-19 recovery – UN deputy chief
When Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Ms Amina Mohammed presented an open lecture titled, ‘Decade of Action: so what?’ at the University of Cape Town (UCT) there was a sense of hope that prevailed.
15 Oct 2020
Student pan-African talk show reimagines news by taking feminist approach
In an effort to get more young South Africans to understand and participate in important discourses that affect the country and the continent, two University of Cape Town (UCT) postgraduates have developed and produced a pan-African talk show, The Revulva, that takes a feminist approach to news and aims to change the way the youth perceives and interacts with current affairs.
15 Oct 2020
Construction gets underway for Africa’s first Design Thinking school to be located at UCT
Africa’s first school dedicated to design thinking located at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Middle Campus is officially under construction, with groundbreaking having begun this month.
14 Oct 2020
UCT executive provides update on response to COVID-19
The University of Cape Town (UCT): has had an increase in both undergraduate and postgraduate applications, will commence the 2021 academic year on 15 March 2021, will propose to Senate for its approval that the first semester be completed online , and has, despite the complexities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, responded with extraordinary commitment to support each other and complete the academic year.
14 Oct 2020
Reminder: UCT to host VC Open Lecture by UN Deputy Secretary-General on SDGs and a decade of action
University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng will host Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group Ms Amina J Mohammed, who will present the VC Open Lecture titled “Decade of action for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): So what?”.
14 Oct 2020
South African scientists launch trial to test whether MMR vaccine protects front-line health-care workers against COVID-19
South African scientists from the Universities of the Cape Town (UCT) and Witwatersrand are launching a clinical trial to test whether the childhood vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) can protect front-line health-care workers from COVID-19, or reduce the severity of illness for those who do become infected.
12 Oct 2020
International Horizon 2020 project, “Mission Atlantic”, launched to map and assess sustainable development of the Atlantic Ocean
International ocean experts from Europe, Brazil, South Africa, Canada and the USA have joined forces to map and assess the current and future risks from climate change, natural hazards and human activities to Atlantic ecosystems.
09 Oct 2020
What mental healthcare in South Africa should look like
08 Oct 2020
UCT to host VC Open Lecture by UN Deputy Secretary-General on SDGs and a decade of action
University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng will host Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group Ms Amina J Mohammed, who will present the VC Open Lecture titled “Decade of action for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): So what?”.
08 Oct 2020
South Africa’s dust emissions sources could pose a threat to food security – new research
07 Oct 2020
Kresge Foundation funding to boost equitable student outcomes at UCT
The University of Cape Town has been named among three new additions to the Kresge Education Program’s Siyaphumelela Initiative. The initiative is aimed at identifying and addressing the systematic obstacles that stand in the way of equitable student success at tertiary level.
07 Oct 2020
UCT Vice-Chancellor wishes class of 2019 matriculants well for their exams
University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has wished the class of 2019 matriculants well for their examinations. This year, 790 405 matriculants will sit for their exams, which started today.
23 Oct 2019
Harnessing Africa's potential to develop medicines for its people
Africa makes up 15% of the global population and 25% of the global disease burden yet the discovery and development of medicines that end up in Africa has historically only happened in the global North. It is time for the situation to change, says Professor Kelly Chibale, the director and founder of the University of Cape Town's Drug Discovery and Development Centre, H3D.
17 Oct 2019
A study in African women sheds new light on barriers to a cure for HIV
An international, collaborative study led by University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers has revealed an unexpected finding that could lead to better therapies towards reducing the HIV reservoir, a major barrier to developing a cure for HIV. The reservoir consists of viral DNA that survives hidden in the body even after indefinite treatment with antiretrovirals.
15 Oct 2019
Long-term success rates for kidney transplants between HIV positive donor and recipient
South Africa has one of the highest incidences of people living with HIV in the world with over seven million people living with the disease. Thus, a new study which has found that survival rates between an HIV positive donor and an HIV positive recipient shows long-term success is positive news for the country.
07 Oct 2019
Most plastic dumped at sea doesn't come from land-based sources, UCT study finds
New research led by the University of Cape Town has cast doubt on the widely held assumption that most marine plastic comes from land-based sources, but rather that a significant proportion come from ships dumping their litter at sea in contravention of international law.
02 Oct 2019
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