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Graduation marks farewell to Chancellor Graça Machel This December graduation season marks the final act of Chancellor Graça Machel’s two terms of office. She says farewell to UCT at the end of the month. 12 Dec 2019
Child Gauge: Prioritising child and adolescent health The South African Child Gauge 2019 explores how early investment in children’s health offers the greatest returns on child and adolescent development. 12 Dec 2019
Through dysphoria to a doctoral degree Velile Vilane’s journey to a PhD from the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment goes beyond the degree – it’s about coming into being. 12 Dec 2019
Gang life: How to leave and stay out Gangsterism is a serious problem in Cape Town. But, according to PhD research by Dr Jane Kelly, there are ways out. 12 Dec 2019
December graduation 2019 The University of Cape Town will be celebrating the graduation of 1 960 of its students over six ceremonies on 12, 13 and 23 December. 12 Dec 2019
Balancing a baby and the books Rejoice Gorni, a student at UCT’s Graduate School of Business, returned to lectures just days after giving birth to complete her PGDip in management. 12 Dec 2019
Epilepsy: a collaborative cure A multidisciplinary team of UCT specialists is making sure that more and more patients with drug-resistant epilepsy are cured. 11 Dec 2019
PhD project weaves together narratives of slavery and incarceration Maroon is a poetic and performative collaboration that recovers the memory of runaway slaves and interrogates contemporary issues of crime, gangsterism and incarceration. 11 Dec 2019
‘Education was my only hope’ Monica Damane, who will graduate on Thursday, 12 December, with her MSc in engineering says the road to this achievement has been far from easy. 11 Dec 2019
‘I refused to be called a failure’ Having endured personal setbacks and defied the odds, Furaha Abwe will graduate with his PhD in Architecture and Planning on Thursday, 12 December. 11 Dec 2019
Swimming upstream – the second-chance graduand This week UCT celebrates its inspirational graduands, students such as staffer Nombuso Shabalala who reclaimed her life after a traumatic event had left her becalmed. 10 Dec 2019
UCT in top ten in national computing competition final Two student-led teams from UCT have secured third and sixth place respectively in the national Centre for High Performance Computing’s Student Cluster Competition. 10 Dec 2019
Burn the boat to win the island Having worked her way through to her doctoral studies, Delta Ndou will soon don the sought-after red robe to receive her PhD in Media Studies at UCT. 10 Dec 2019
Experimental economics fights global poverty The surge of interest in experimental approaches in economics began in the early 1990s and has been influential in development economics. 10 Dec 2019
Architecture and informality in Africa Professor Tomà Berlanda discusses how architecture can learn from and inform self-built settlements. 09 Dec 2019
Dream big and apply yourself fully Musa Kika arrived at UCT to study for an LLM, but his master’s was upgraded and he will be graduating in December with a PhD. 09 Dec 2019
UCT shines at L’Oréal-UNESCO sub-Saharan Africa Two UCT postgraduate researchers have been awarded grants by the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talents Awards. 06 Dec 2019
A chemical attraction Professor Kelly Chibale talks about the bonds he has formed through his illustrious career which began in an impoverished Zambian township. 05 Dec 2019 Republished
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