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Scientific Leadership Prize for UCT infectious diseases expert
Professor Graeme Meintjes, an adult infectious diseases physician and the second chair and deputy head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT), has been awarded the 2020 European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) Scientific Leadership Prize for his significant contribution to the improved understanding of HIV and its complications. This prize comes shortly after Meintjes was awarded the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Scientific Merit Award: Gold Medal.
03 Dec 2021
UNESCO chair in open education resources for Glenda Cox
Senior lecturer in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) Dr Glenda Cox is the new holder of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair in Open Education and Social Justice at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
02 Dec 2021
Democratising education – UCT Summer School takes courses to communities
The upcoming University of Cape Town (UCT) Summer School is making its courses more widely accessible in resource-poor communities by livestreaming them to the Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha and Philippi Hub in the innovative Philippi Village at no cost.
30 Nov 2021
Alumni in Action programme strengthens UCT support for GBV survivors
The University of Cape Town (UCT)’s Alumni in Action programme, launched in partnership with alumna Zellah Fuphe and student Sanda Nyoka, has received a boost through funding from various donors which is helping to expand the programme’s counselling service.
25 Nov 2021
UCT leads in training aspiring African neurologists
Training a pool of neurologists in sub-Saharan Africa is an important step towards Africanising the vital discipline of neuroscience on the continent. In addition, it will help to facilitate inter- and cross-disciplinary research and accelerate treatment options for common neurological disorders like stroke and epilepsy, and neurological infections such as tuberculous meningitis (TBM) and HIV-related dementia.
19 Nov 2021
UCT’s leading cervical cancer researcher bestowed country’s highest honours
University of Cape Town (UCT) cervical cancer researcher Professor Lynette Denny received the Order of the Baobab (Silver) from President Cyril Ramaphosa at an investiture ceremony hosted by the presidency on 18 November.
19 Nov 2021
Children with CMV infection are at high risk of developing TB disease in childhood
Children that acquire cytomegalovirus (CMV) in the first year of life are at high risk of subsequently developing tuberculosis (TB) disease, a team of University of Cape Town (UCT) and international scientists has found.
19 Nov 2021
Study offers new insights into the biology of extinct giant reptiles
A University of Cape Town (UCT) study investigating the bone histology (microscopic structure) of multiple skeletal elements of dinocephalians has found that the long bones of the herbivores ( Keratocephalus , Moschops and Struthiocephalus ) and omnivore ( Jonkeria ) had thick bone walls that extended right into the middle of the bone.
17 Nov 2021
UCT Health Sciences student only African recipient of Google Fellowship in subfield
PhD student Dennis Dogbey, from the Medical Biotechnology and Immunotherapy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine based at the Faculty of Health Sciences was recently awarded a 2021 Africa PhD Google Fellowship for Human-Computer Interactions – as this year’s only African recipient in this subfield.
15 Nov 2021
UCT tuition fees increased by nearly 400% from 1923 to 2020
Inflation-adjusted tuition fees at the University of Cape Town (UCT) increased by an average of nearly 400% from 1923 to 2020. Most of the increase in tuition fees happened after 1970. These are the main findings of a paper recently published in the South African Journal of Higher Education .
04 Nov 2021
Global network takes stock of human adaptation to climate change and finds little evidence of risk reduction
As society experiences increasingly frequent and severe natural hazard events and environmental stressors — while making little progress at reducing carbon emissions — the need to adapt to the changing climate has become starkly clear. But what actions are we taking to adapt to climate change around the world — and how successful are our efforts?
03 Nov 2021