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UCT observes World AIDS Day
Ahead of World AIDS Day, UCT's Professor Linda-Gail Bekker said too many people living with HIV are still not receiving the care they need.
30 Nov 2020
SAX Appeal goes digital
This year’s edition of the popular UCT student-produced magazine SAX Appeal has gone digital and is on sale now.
30 Nov 2020
Linda Ronnie: from high school rebel to professor
Linda Ronnie, the dean of the Faculty of Commerce, shares her journey to full professor and offers three important pointers for women planning their academic careers.
30 Nov 2020
UCT Annual Awards 2020
The virtual event took place at 18:00 on Wednesday, 2 December 2020.
30 Nov 2020
‘UCT was my lucky break’
Gregory Ford celebrated his 35th UCT anniversary on 1 November and will receive a long-service award from the university later this month.
30 Nov 2020
Awards aplenty for UCT student’s scholarship platform
UCT PhD candidate Lena Gronbach has received three prestigious honours for Africademics, a scholarship platform she created to help her peers.
27 Nov 2020
Fuel-from-waste win at Falling Walls Lab competition
PhD researcher Chelsea Tucker’s modular, off-grid organic waste-to-fuel system put her among 10 Emerging Talent winners in the recent international Falling Walls Lab competition.
27 Nov 2020
d-school solar energy system first of a proposed campus roll-out
UCT’s new d-school on middle campus is installing a rooftop photovoltaic system that will pave the way for a bigger campus roll-out.
27 Nov 2020
Men, gender equality and the search for gender harmony
As South Africa started its 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence campaign, UCT gender scholar Dr Rob Morrell talks about masculinities and gender relations.
26 Nov 2020
Royal Aeronautical Society medal for mechanical-engineering team
UCT’s Aircraft Fuel Tank Component Design team was recently awarded a silver medal by the Royal Aeronautical Society for their work in computational fluid dynamics.
25 Nov 2020
What meteorites can tell us about Mars
Using 600-million-year-old volcanic meteorites, UCT scientist Geoffrey Howarth has published a new paper showing that the interior of Mars may be more chemically varied than once thought.
24 Nov 2020
Summer School at 71: a feast of learning awaits
Bookings are open for the 71st instalment of UCT’s annual Summer School, which will be presented online from 11 to 30 January 2021.
24 Nov 2020
UCT’s KFM Teacher of the Year finalist
A UCT master’s student is in the running for KFM’s 2020 Teacher of the Year award.
24 Nov 2020
Virtual staff onboarding the ICTS way
Megan Abrahams, the senior helpdesk manager at UCT’s ICTS, shares how the department is managing the virtual onboarding of new staff during the lockdown.
24 Nov 2020
Reflections of UCT’s Future Leaders
Both old and new members of UCT’s 2030 Future Leaders programme share how the initiative, launched in 2018 by the vice-chancellor, has impacted their academic careers.
23 Nov 2020
UCT strengthens SGBV survivor support
UCT has joined forces with Rape Crisis and appointed a counsellor to strengthen services to survivors of sexual offences.
23 Nov 2020
Delivering innovation and inclusivity in science
University of Cape Town researchers, Professor Ambroise Wonkam, director of Genetic Medicine of African Populations (GeneMAP) based at the Division of Human Genetics and Ntando Yola, the Community Engagement Lead at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation will bring their unique perspectives together at a Science-meets-Science Culture talk that is open to all, Life Science Across the Globe. The session will be hosted on Wednesday.
20 Nov 2020
Our world needs empathetic intervention — not heroes
We need to make an active choice to develop our transformative muscle, individually and collectively, if we are to stand a chance of bringing about real and meaningful change, write Ncedisa Nkonyeni and Cynthia Rayner from the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the UCT GSB.
20 Nov 2020
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