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Cancer treatment gets personal
More targeted and personalised therapies are needed to improve the way we tackle cancer.
14 Jan 2020
Republished
Fallist movement like déjà vu
Emeritus Professor Anwar Mall, UCT’s former acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Transformation and Student Affairs, recalled old and new student protests during his Summer School lecture.
13 Jan 2020
Student sit-in of 1968 the ‘final straw’
During a Summer School lecture at UCT this week, retired academic Emeritus Professor Howard Phillips discussed the events that led to the 1968 student sit-in.
10 Jan 2020
Why South Africa's declining maths performance is a worry
UCT is taking steps to improve students’ maths results by introducing a number of interventions.
10 Jan 2020
Republished
VC’s Message to Matriculants
The Vice-Chancellor congratulates matriculants who have just received their results and invites prospective students to choose UCT.
08 Jan 2020
How some corporations can have positive impact in communities
A recent study looks at the conditions that motivate corporations to make significant contributions to community resilience.
06 Jan 2020
Republished
Going up: 500-bed Avenue Road Residence
UCT’s new Avenue Road Residence will accommodate 500 students, part of a three-phase Mowbray precinct plan expected to yield 1 000 new beds for the university.
06 Jan 2020
Kicking up dust on a global scale
A global data set may help us to understand the source of dust emissions that play such a vital role in earth systems.
03 Jan 2020
New directions for Summer School in its 70th season
In January UCT’s Summer School will celebrate its 70th year of public education with a bumper Africa-based programme and a strategy to attract new, diverse audiences.
02 Jan 2020
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