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Redressing past injustices with art
The new chairperson of UCT’s Works of Art Collection committee says she aims to shape an equitable art collection that will become a valuable resource.
10 Sep 2020
Searching for justice in the war on womxn’s bodies
UCT’s Gabriel Khan says in our search for justice in the war on womxn’s bodies, we need to locate gender-based violence within the broader context of violence.
10 Sep 2020
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UCT to be a net-zero-water campus by 2050
UCT is preparing to become a net-zero-water campus by 2050, with a strategy developed in the Office of the Vice Chancellor’s Environmental Sustainability Directorate.
09 Sep 2020
Scholarship opportunity to spark global social change
The Reimagine Challenge 2020 asks students for their best innovative global social change ideas and offers them the chance to win a substantial scholarship.
09 Sep 2020
Vision 2030: unleashing human potential
UCT’s Vision 2030 takes a future-focused approach that has elicited excitement from the community at the prospect of what the university can collectively achieve.
08 Sep 2020
‘By day five I could barely breathe’
Dianne Steele, a librarian in the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment, shares her experiences of COVID-19 and her journey back to health.
07 Sep 2020
From campus cleaning to library assistant
On 1 September Mellisa Thomas started as a library assistant at UCT Libraries – after almost a decade as a member of the campus cleaning team.
07 Sep 2020
The human genome – the future in the past
Twelve researchers were offered the opportunity to reflect on the key challenges and opportunities faced by the field of genetics and genomics in an expert-led exploration. This initiative was in celebration of Nature Reviews Genetics’ 20 th anniversary. Professor Ambroise Wonkam, director of Genetic Medicine of African Populations (GeneMAP) based at the Division of Human Genetics, in the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences is amongst these researchers.
07 Sep 2020
Postgraduate studies – Rethinking the international experience
Within tertiary education, privileged status and the fault lines between developing and developed countries have been starkly exposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
04 Sep 2020
Virtual collaboration and communication shaping the international postgraduate experience
The fourth conversation in UCT's series of digital events aimed at reimagining the new global university took place on Monday 24 August 2020.
03 Sep 2020
Viewpoints | Conversation #4: Postgraduate researchers: can we rethink the international experience
How do we ensure that our postgrads are nevertheless able to innovate, collaborate and succeed, despite the complete reshaping of the international experience?
03 Sep 2020
Architecture students pay it forward
Proceeds following an exhibition curated by a group of honours students in UCT’s School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics will go towards COVID-19 relief efforts.
02 Sep 2020
Vision 2030: realising UCT’s dream
During the fifth virtual Vision 2030 staff engagement session, UCT’s chief operating officer outlined what is necessary to realise the university’s dream.
02 Sep 2020
Charlene Esau: my recovery from COVID-19
Charlene Esau, an occupational health nurse practitioner at UCT, shares her experience of having and recovering from the coronavirus.
02 Sep 2020
UCT retains top spot in Africa in THE world rankings
UCT has retained its spot as the continent’s top university, despite a drop of 19 places, tying at 155th among more than 1 500 institutions.
02 Sep 2020
Disruption and change at the new global university
COVID-19 has radically changed the ways that universities do everything: from research and teaching, to social responsiveness and internationalisation.
02 Sep 2020
Student Entrepreneurship Week 2020
UCT student entrepreneurs who want to take their business ideas to the next level are invited to take part in Student Entrepreneurship Week 2020.
01 Sep 2020
British Ecological Society award for SA climate change researcher
UCT’s Prof Wendy Foden has been awarded the British Ecological Society’s Marsh Award for Climate Change Research.
01 Sep 2020
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