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UCT hosts discussion on improving scientific communication and media reporting on marine resource management issues
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) departments of Biological Sciences and Mathematics and Applied Mathematics will jointly host a discussion session on Improving Scientific Communication and the Media when reporting on Marine Resource Management on Wednesday, 3 December 2025 at the John Day (Zoology) Building on upper campus.
02 Dec 2025
Media release
UCT accelerates Africa’s genomics future with launch of pioneering short course
A groundbreaking new initiative, the African Genomics Short Course (AGSC), was launched at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences on 1 December 2025. Running until 10 December 2025, the programme marks a significant step in strengthening genomics education, research capacity and scientific leadership across Africa.
01 Dec 2025
Media release
UCT hosts International Stock Assessment Review Workshop
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group (MARAM) is hosting the annual International Stock Assessment Review Workshop from Monday, 1 December to Friday, 5 December 2025 at UCT’s Mathematics Building on the upper campus. Three world-leading scientists in the field are participating in the workshop.
01 Dec 2025
Media release
UCT takes top honours in South Africa’s inaugural Effie College Challenge
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has emerged as the standout performer in South Africa’s first-ever Effie College Challenge, securing both first and second place in a competition designed to test and recognise students’ ability to work with real-world briefs.
26 Nov 2025
Media release
UCT at the forefront as NSTF introduces Research Software Awards
The University of Cape Town’s eResearch Centre (UCT eResearch) has played a leading role in shaping national recognition for research software, inspiring the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF), in partnership with the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), to launch a new award category: the Research Software Awards.
25 Nov 2025
Media release
UCT brings science to the streets as women researchers take over the V&A Waterfront
The V&A Waterfront’s Clocktower precinct transformed into a vibrant, open-air laboratory as women scientists from across the Western Cape stepped onto literal soapboxes to share their research with the public on Saturday, 15 November 2025.
24 Nov 2025
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UCT collaborates with SARAO as MeerKAT decodes interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has played a pivotal role in a major scientific result confirming that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is behaving like a comet and shows no sign of technological activity. An international team, co-led by UCT’s Professor DJ Pisano, used South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope to make the most detailed radio observations to date of this rare visitor from beyond our Solar System.
20 Nov 2025
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UCT shines spotlight on SA–Italy partnership powering MeerKAT and SKA
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has marked the completion of the RADIOMAP programme, a three-year exchange initiative that strengthened South Africa and Italy’s joint work in radio astronomy. The milestone was celebrated on 12 November at UCT with a public lecture by Dr Grazia Umana from Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), who highlighted the growing partnership between the two countries through the MeerKAT and Square Kilometre Array (SKA) projects.
18 Nov 2025
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Pesticide exposure affecting cognitive performance for children in agricultural areas
Children living in agricultural areas may experience reduced cognitive performance due to exposure to various pesticides in their daily lives. This is according to a new study conducted by scientists at the Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research in the School of Public Health at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute at the University of Basel. The study is also part of the South African-Swiss Bilateral SARChI Chair in Global Environmental Health of Professors Aqiel Dalvie and Martin Röösli.
18 Nov 2025
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UCT’s excellence shines as two graduates named 2026 Rhodes Scholars
Excellence and leadership have once again placed the University of Cape Town (UCT) on the global stage, as graduates Thobani Sangweni and Raphael De Sousa are named among the recipients of the 2026 Rhodes Scholarships to study at the University of Oxford.
13 Nov 2025
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UCT GSB secures global top ten spot for shaping sustainable business leaders
The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) has reinforced its reputation as Africa’s top business school and a global leader in responsible management education, with its Master of Business Administration (MBA) once again ranking seventh in the world in the 2025 Better World MBA rankings released on Thursday, 6 November 2025.
13 Nov 2025
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UCT-led coalition rethinks the future of Africa’s cities
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) African Centre for Cities (ACC) is spearheading a coalition of 13 leading African and global institutions, Urban2063, which has challenged Africa to rethink the future of its cities radically through the launch of An Unstoppable Force – a powerful new Cityscapes Magazine special report.
12 Nov 2025
Media release
Women scientists take the spotlight as UCT brings research to the public
The University of Cape Town (UCT) will bring science to the people when it hosts the fourth edition of Soapbox Science – an initiative aimed at increasing the visibility of women in science and inspiring the public by sharing innovative research – at the V&A Waterfront Clock Tower on Saturday, 15 November 2025.
12 Nov 2025
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UCT virologist to unpack the power of immunity in an age of outbreaks
Viruses have shaped both our biology and our societies. The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Professor Wendy Burgers, professor of virology in the Department of Pathology , will reflect on how viral evolution and immune escape challenge our defences, and how vaccines harness the immune system for protection during her inaugural lecture.
12 Nov 2025
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UCT professor calls for decentralisation of money creation
“Centralisation in banking is not positive for economic growth and innovation,” argued Professor Phillip de Jager from Department of Finance and Tax at the University of Cape Town (UCT) during his inaugural lecture on Tuesday, 4 November 2025. His lecture was titled “The Numbers We Trust: Unintended Consequences of the Interconnectedness Between Money, Accounting, and Banking”.
11 Nov 2025
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UCT-led study finds four in five adults with TB have no symptoms
A study led by the University of Cape Town (UCT) has found that most tuberculosis (TB) cases detected among adults living with someone who has TB are silent (without symptoms) at the time of screening. The study, published in The Lancet Global Health , suggests that to slow the spread of TB, South Africa and other high-burden countries should bring TB tests into communities and offer them to people at higher risk – such as household contacts – even if they feel well.
10 Nov 2025
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UCT professor charts a journey of science, service and mentorship in pathology
Professor Komala Pillay of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences delivered her inaugural lecture titled “Give the Path Less Travelled a Chance – It May Turn Out to Be Magical” on 30 October 2025, tracing her remarkable journey into anatomical pathology, a field that, though often underappreciated, forms the backbone of modern medicine.
07 Nov 2025
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