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Universities renew big data agreement for 5 years
The agreement forming the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy has been renewed for a period of five years.
10 Dec 2020
Opera School voices rise above COVID-19
Opera School students have risen to the challenge of lockdown, learning new ways of engaging with material and enriching their approach to singing.
10 Dec 2020
Community rehabilitation workers advocating for disability inclusion during lockdown
At the beginning of the national lockdown related to the COVID-19 pandemic, community rehabilitation workers were invited to participate in a four-week writing circle about their experiences of disability inclusion as frontline workers. This was an opportunity to highlight their efforts as well as their invaluable knowledge of community needs.
10 Dec 2020
Keeping mothers in mind: COVID and beyond
Pregnant women and new mothers have been particularly vulnerable, as they struggle to take care of themselves and their new-born babies with limited access to resources during the national lockdown. During 2020, the Perinatal Mental Health Project (PMHP) has been supporting maternal mental health care in low-income communities.
10 Dec 2020
The Baxter suspends performances
The Baxter is suspending performances from mid-December to the end of January 2021 to help curb the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the Western Cape.
10 Dec 2020
Designing for development
Referring to himself as ‘an avid student of the College of Google and the University of YouTube’, Dr Muzzammil Ismail, a Public Health Registrar in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, is the designer of the award-winning Western Cape Department of Health COVID-19 Public Facing Dashboard, which recently surpassed 2 million views.
10 Dec 2020
Communicating science
The proliferation of fake news and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of science communication. The Faculty of Health Sciences offers a Science and Communication course for all Honours students on the BSc Honours Joint programme, convened by Dr Sharief Hendricks and Dr Nancy Laguette, from the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine (ESSM). In this course, students learn how to write, illustrate and communicate science more effectively.
10 Dec 2020
First cystic fibrosis registry report for South Africa launched
A new annual report from the South African Cystic Fibrosis Registry will help to keep track of people living with this debilitating disease.
10 Dec 2020
Message from the Transformation and Equity Committee
10 Dec 2020
Message from the Postgraduate Health Sciences Students’ Council
2020. Wow, it was a year of the unexpected for students, staff, and the entire world in general. During this year, I served as the chair of the Postgraduate Health Sciences Student Council and the student representative of the postgraduate student oversight and advocacy task team. It was really a year filled with meetings as we had to plan for the postgraduate community, including local and international students. As a team, we ensured that postgraduate students had everything necessary to complete their degrees.
10 Dec 2020
Message from the Chair of the Health Sciences Students’ Council
2020 was a path in my journey I never thought I would ever go through - it brought joy, grief, pain, and success. Being a medical student during a pandemic was challenging in the sense that it provided an opportunity for us to be a part of the response to assist in alleviating the burden. We were also challenged with not being able to study in an environment that we were accustomed to, whilst many were navigating grief at the same time.
10 Dec 2020
Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine tackles COVID challenges and high-risk procedures head-on
From March to September, the COVID Anaesthesia and Airway Team managed more than 500 COVID cases, of which approximately half were intubations and transfers of critically ill patients to ICU, and more than a third cases requiring surgery. Above and beyond the service component to the patients and hospital, the greatest success was the phenomenal collaboration, cooperating and integration of practitioners across professions, disciplines and divisions who typically have little interaction.
10 Dec 2020
The fun side of finance
10 Dec 2020
UCT chemical engineering says halala to 100 years
UCT’s Department of Chemical Engineering celebrated its centenary on Tuesday, 8 December.
09 Dec 2020
Senzo Mgabhi’s long walk to his MSc
After a long and winding road, Senzo Mgabhi will graduate with his MSc in chemical engineering from UCT on 15 December.
09 Dec 2020
How to add UCT graduation stickers to your Facebook story
You can easily add UCT graduation stickers to your Facebook story following these easy instructions.
09 Dec 2020
COVID-19’s sex bias: men more at risk of requiring critical care
A paper by researchers from UCT and UCL investigating the role of sex in patients infected with COVID-19 has been published in Nature Communications.
09 Dec 2020
Dodging life as a gangster in pursuit of education
Tshediso Mahange experienced great adversity during his childhood, but he persevered – and this December he will graduate with his degree in business science from UCT.
09 Dec 2020
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