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ICA to present Story of Our Lives online screening
The Institute for Creative Arts at UCT will present an online screening of Stories of Our Lives on Friday, 22 May, at 19:00.
21 May 2020
Siberians and First Americans go way back
The newly sequenced genomes of prehistoric hunter-gatherers that lived near Lake Baikal in Siberia have revealed connections across Eurasia and with First Americans.
20 May 2020
COVID-19: Can you hear me?
UCT master’s student Rebecca Njuguna has online psychotherapy sessions twice a week – and the only place she has some privacy during lockdown, is in the bathroom.
20 May 2020
Working together to bring essential COVID-19 info to communities
UCT’s Knowledge Translation Unit, a research unit of the UCT Lung Institute, is playing an important role in the fight against COVID-19.
19 May 2020
WOOP app now in isiXhosa, first African translation
In Africa Month comes news that the WOOP app has been translated into isiXhosa, the first African vernacular language, thanks to a collaboration with UCT.
19 May 2020
UCT’s survivor support goes online
The Office for Inclusivity and Change at UCT is now running a weekly online Survivor Support Group.
19 May 2020
Phased return to campus planned
UCT’s chief operating officer, Dr Reno Morar, has assured staff members that their return to work on campus will be done in a controlled, principled way.
19 May 2020
Brassy QuarenTune pays homage to a departed friend
William Haubrich’s lockdown video is also a musical project dedicated to a colleague who passed away a few hours after the video was posted on Facebook.
18 May 2020
COVID-19: a ‘teachable’ moment
Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor Lis Lange says remote online learning was the only feasible alternative to salvage the academic year.
18 May 2020
Funding, return to labs critical to research
Research funding and a return to laboratories and studios were central to DVC Professor Sue Harrison’s message during the Vice-Chancellor’s online special assembly.
18 May 2020
Three student groups to return to campus in phased approach
Final-year medical students, academically vulnerable students and those needing to access campus labs to complete their studies will be the first to return to campus.
15 May 2020
‘COVID-19 will test our solidarity and commitment’
Addressing a virtual staff assembly, UCT Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng assured her audience that the university will more than just survive the COVID-19 crisis
15 May 2020
COVID-19 could cancel 28 million surgeries
More than 28 million elective surgeries could be cancelled or delayed globally this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
15 May 2020
‘Let science be in service of society’
The Knowledge Translation Unit at UCT’s Lung Institute has produced a series of COVID-19 resources targeted at under-resourced communities.
14 May 2020
Gig workers among the most vulnerable in SA’s COVID-19 crisis
Researchers on the Fairwork project have highlighted how gig workers in South Africa are unable to access the same government assistance as other workers.
14 May 2020
Student entrepreneurs get ready to pitch
The Entrepreneurship Intervarsity competition is around the corner and UCT’s budding student entrepreneurs are standing by to participate in the internal leg of the competition.
14 May 2020
Production of safe, affordable bottle spacers ramped up
UCT alumni have designed a rig to increase production of the bottle spacers that administer metred medication dosages to patients struggling to breathe.
13 May 2020
Virtual collegiality for birders in lockdown
Behavioural ecologist and postdoctoral research fellow at UCT Dr Jessica van der Wal writes about valuable virtual meetings in the FitzPatrick Institute, a premier centre for ornithological research.
13 May 2020
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