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Rehearsing rehabilitation UCT postgrads are working with a drama programme that aims to support prisoners during their reintegration into society. 31 Oct 2017
Human cell researcher gets funding boost Professor Musa Mhlanga has received a grant for funding to contribute to a global project to map all the cells in the human body. 31 Oct 2017
What about rainwater harvesting? With the rainy season drawing to a close, hydro-climatologist Piotr Wolski suggests that rainwater harvesting may help with getting through the dry months of 2018. 30 Oct 2017
City Press report: Fees won't fall Universal free tertiary education will rnot be feasible in the foreseeable future, and different funding models should be adopted to ensure access for all deserving students, according to the Heher commission’s recommendations – as reported by City Press.. 29 Oct 2017
VC’s Concert picks up the pace The annual Vice-Chancellor’s Concert series presented feats of agility and skill in a medley of performances by students from the South African College of Music. 27 Oct 2017
How to transform student support efforts Extended development programmes shouldn’t try to sanitise contentious issues, but rather engage with students about the necessity of the programmes and how they contribute to transformation. 27 Oct 2017
Meet the giant dinosaur that roamed southern Africa 200 million years ago Postdoc research fellow Lara Sciscio and her team have discovered that carnivorous dinosaurs from 8 to 9 m long lived in southern Africa during the Early Jurassic. 27 Oct 2017 Republished
Cecil ‘Doc’ Moss: 1925–2017 Springbok, Western Province and UCT rugby icon Dr Cecil ‘Doc’ Moss (92) died on 27 October. 27 Oct 2017
UCT-led team discovers megacarnivore roaming southern Africa 200 million years ago At the outset of the Jurassic Period, about 200 million years ago, the largest carnivorous dinosaurs were relatively small, with a body length of 3–5 metres. 26 Oct 2017
Unraveling what’s holding back women economists in academia Michael E Rose, a PhD candidate in economics, suggests that men’s attitudes might be sidelining women from the social network of informal collaboration. 26 Oct 2017 Republished
UCT student presents solution to food waste Master’s student Maryjane Mokgethi has just returned from the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, where she presented an app designed to reduce food waste. 25 Oct 2017
Absa increases support to UCT The Barclays Africa Group has pledged R10 million to UCT to fund “missing middle” students as part of its R210-million CEO Scholarship Fund. 25 Oct 2017
South Africa’s police: at times proud, at times shamed by the work they do UCT’s Dr Andrew Faull spent eight months shadowing SAPS officers as they went about their work at two police stations in Cape Town and two in the Eastern Cape. 25 Oct 2017 Republished
Women athletes talk sport on campus UCT’s Student Sports Union will host a talk about women in sport on 24 October at 18:00 in the PD Hahn Building annex on upper campus. 24 Oct 2017
Money woes force South Africa to revisit how it rewards researchers The National Research Foundation recently announced that it will dramatically scale back the “incentive” funding it offers to rated researchers. 24 Oct 2017
Master’s student at the World Economic Forum Master’s student Shamiso Kumbirai will be a representative of southern African youth at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos in 2018. 23 Oct 2017
Student entrepreneurs enact change through education Student entrepreneur Jono Field signed contracts with his first two tutors on the bonnet of his dad’s car in 2015. Now he and partner Kosta Kappatos manage 90 tutors. 23 Oct 2017
UCT preparing for a water-sensitive campus The current drought is an opportunity for UCT to use its water-sensitive urban-design expertise to showcase what it means to be a water-sensitive campus. 23 Oct 2017
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