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Flourish First programme designed to boost students’ academic performance
A new, week-long programme for students will be launched from 24 to 31 July, to enhance their well-being and help them fulfil their potential.
21 Jul 2023
Province’s under-fives carry a double burden of malnutrition: stunting and obesity
A recent Western Cape survey reported that stunting is still present in children under five, and that overweight is a serious public health concern.
21 Jul 2023
Emma Whitelaw’s research analyses post-school education in an unequal society
PhD graduand Emma Whitelaw’s in-depth research forms part of the Siyaphambili Project – an initiative of UCT’s Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit.
21 Jul 2023
PhD graduand clocks vast distances on foot collecting 150 taxa, including 50 undescribed species
PhD graduand Brian du Preez’s research took him to the farthest-flung areas of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, where he discovered, rediscovered and collected ‘Indigofera’ species.
21 Jul 2023
UCT academic honoured with Royal Meteorological Society Award
UCT’s Prof Chris Reason, has been announced as one of the international Royal Meteorological Society award winners for 2022 in the Geoscience Data Journal Editors’ Award division.
21 Jul 2023
PhD Graduation July 2023
We congratulate the July 2023 PhD graduation cohort on their academic success and we are looking forward to celebrating with them.
21 Jul 2023
July PhD Graduation 2023
Over 100 PhDs were conferred at UCT’s mid-year graduation ceremony at 10:00 on Friday, 21 July 2023.
21 Jul 2023
Pioneering Global Surgery work scores UCT professor distinguished award
South Africa’s leading researchers in science, engineering, technology and innovation were honoured at a recent prestigious awards ceremony.
20 Jul 2023
Global surgery strategies, systems crucial to ensuring timely, safe surgery – especially for women
Referring to the plight of pregnant African women, an inaugural lecture examines the need for global surgery strategies to build health systems across the world.
20 Jul 2023
Graduand’s research probes prevalence, risk of elder abuse in SA
PhD graduand Roxanne Jacobs argues that promoting the health and well-being of older people and their caregivers is essential to reduce the risk of abuse.
20 Jul 2023
‘Don’t retrofit curricula to include disability; engage at the design stage’ – PhD graduand
Retrofitting the university’s curricula to include disability is expensive and challenging, and instead should be part of engagement at the design stage, says PhD graduand Ikechukwu Nwanze.
19 Jul 2023
‘Don’t let this work die on my computer’ – PhD to be awarded posthumously
On 21 July, Zayd Minty will receive his PhD posthumously – after a collective, cross-country effort to see him across the finish line before he died.
18 Jul 2023
UCT honours anti-apartheid poet Keith Gottschalk
As part of its Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series, UCT’s Development and Alumni Department recently celebrated the life and work of protest poet Keith Gottschalk.
18 Jul 2023
PhD study on women with disabilities accessing antenatal care in rural Uganda
Ponsiano Nuwagaba’s PhD examines the plight of pregnant women with disabilities in rural Uganda, and outlines strategies for improving services – and access to them.
17 Jul 2023
PhD proposal shows how disability can be included in MBChB training
Sarah Whitehead’s PhD is an important academic contribution to teaching and learning; a proposal outlining how disability can be included in the medical undergraduate curriculum.
14 Jul 2023
San and Khoe skeletons: how UCT sought to restore dignity and redress the past
The skeletonised remains of nine people were donated to UCT’s anatomy department by Carel Gert Coetzee, who had unearthed them and was a medical student at the university.
14 Jul 2023
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A starry-eyed inspirational graduate
One of this year’s inspirational graduates Dr Michael Hlabathe reached for the stars to overcome adversity and obtain his PhD in astrophysics.
14 Jul 2023
Africa charter for equitable partnerships receives major endorsement
Leading networks from across the continent met last week to sign the charter set to shift research collaborations between Africa and the Global North.
13 Jul 2023
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