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Climate-change movers set to jet to Milan for youth summit A delegation representing South Africa and Lesotho hopes to have their voices heard at the Youth 4 Climate: Driving Ambition event in Milan. 23 Sep 2021
Africans lack basic facilities to curb COVID-19 Collaborative research involving UCT reveals that hundreds of millions of Africans don’t have access to the simplest tools to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. 23 Sep 2021
YES! scholarships harness power of small donors The Young Engineers Scholarship, created by two UCT alumni, harnesses friend networks and small donors to support under-resourced engineering students. 23 Sep 2021
Heritage Month: The Khoi encountered Europeans long before Van Riebeeck The proto-port Cape Town hosted hundreds of ships that sailed between Europe and Asia and traded with the Khoi – long before Jan Van Riebeeck arrived. 22 Sep 2021
Student innovators: think out of the box with InCube InCube, a global innovation challenge for students, is coming to Cape Town for the first time. 20 Sep 2021
New test to diagnose vaginal inflammation could help reduce risk of HIV infection A UCT team have come up with a new way to test for asymptomatic vaginal infections in women in resource-poor settings. 20 Sep 2021 Republished
How effective is exercise for weight loss, really? A new collaborative study has found that energy balance is more complicated than simply calories in, calories out. 20 Sep 2021
Investment critical for lucrative plant-based vaccine market University of Cape Town scientist have successfully reported the expression of the near-full length SARS-CoV-2 spike vaccine in plants. 17 Sep 2021
Meet Ashraf Conrad, new institutional planning director Ashraf Conrad has been appointed as director of the IPD and brings a wealth of institutional knowledge and high-level strategic perspectives to the job. 17 Sep 2021
Three UCT student entrepreneurs leap into national competition final UCT student entrepreneurs pulled out all the stops during the regional round of the Entrepreneurship Intervarsity competition. 16 Sep 2021
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert of gratitude for healthcare workers In honour of healthcare workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra performed the Concert of Gratitude. 16 Sep 2021
Rethinking ‘ukuthwala’, the South African ‘bride abduction’ custom Nyasha Karimakwenda, a postdoctoral research fellow at UCT, shares findings from her research about ukuthwala. 15 Sep 2021 Republished
UCT master’s student handpicked to co-edit New African magazine Nqabisa Faku was part of a group of African youth selected to guest-edit the August/September edition of the New African magazine. 15 Sep 2021
Students get vaccinated at the UCT Community of Hope Vaccination Centre UCT students got their first jab at the launch of the UCT Community of Hope Vaccination Centre on 30 August 2021. 15 Sep 2021
Vitamin D deficiency does not increase TB risk in young children A study by UCT and Boston University researchers examines whether Vitamin D is linked to subsequent TB in young children. 14 Sep 2021
UCT PhD graduand celebrates with community in Khayelitsha UCT PhD graduand Mluleki Majavu hosted a celebratory event in Khayelitsha to mark the completion of his studies. 14 Sep 2021
Students get vaccinated at the UCT Community of Hope Vaccination Centre UCT students got their first jab at the launch of the UCT Community of Hope Vaccination Centre on 30 August 2021. 14 Sep 2021
Buy work from renowned and budding artists at Michaelis silent auction The annual Michaelis silent auction is your chance to buy work from renowned and budding artists. 13 Sep 2021
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