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USHEPiA 20-year publication launched on Africa Day The USHEPiA publication documents the story of how an intra-African capacity-building scholarship programme that started in 1996 came to be a ‘flagship’. 31 May 2017
More children than ever overweight and obese Globally, more children are overweight than under-nourished and stunted, said Professor Vicky Lambert following the Healthy Active Kids South Africa Report Card 2016 release. 31 May 2017
Mining for sustainable development Kabang’u Sakuwaha, a geoscientist and MPhil student, has received an African Development Bank grant to write commissioned papers on mining and sustainable development goals. 31 May 2017
Encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship A well-planned strategy and business pitch helped six UCT students land the title of FLUX 2017 champions at the entrepreneurship challenge on campus recently. 29 May 2017
‘Build a career – not just a job’ Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, DVC for research and internationalisation, had some sage career advice for a group of UCT’s brightest black scholars. 29 May 2017
Multilingualism is the African lingua franca UCT’s Dr Shannon Morreira, Dr Ellen Hurst and Associate Professor Mbulungeni Madiba propose translanguaging as a means of bringing students’ multilingual resources into the classroom. 29 May 2017
Betrayal of the promise: how South Africa is being stolen According to what media have termed an “explosive” research intensive report, South Africa has undergone a silent coup, removing the African National Congress from “its place as the primary force for transformation in society. 26 May 2017
The science behind safe tackling Tackles are made almost every 30 seconds in rugby, causing half of rugby-related injuries. It’s time for science to become involved, says sports scientist Sharief Hendricks. 26 May 2017
Dolphins identified by their whistles A team of researchers has shown that passive acoustic monitoring can be hugely effective in keeping track of dolphin species in southern Africa. 26 May 2017
Dr Ian Little receives a ‘Green Oscar’ Dr Ian Little, recent winner of a 2017 Whitley Award, will use the prize money to upscale his ‘Custodians of South Africa’s threatened grassland biodiversity’ project. 26 May 2017
Meet UCT’s half-marathon star UCT medical student Jessica Pollock’s win in the Safari Half Marathon was just the latest arrow in an impressive athletic quiver. 24 May 2017
International food security prize for Battersby-Lennard Addressing food insecurity can improve health, develop a more inclusive economy and increase environmental sustainability, says Premio Daniel Carasso prize winner Jane Battersby-Lennard. 24 May 2017
“Be a contender,” Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng tells MasterCard Foundation Scholars “At every university, you get three types of students: spectators, pretenders and contenders,” Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, deputy vice-chancellor for research and internationalisation, told UCT’s MasterCard Foundation Scholars at their welcome reception in April. 24 May 2017
Petersen and Buhlungu inaugurated Former UCT senior leaders professors Sakhela Buhlungu and Francis Petersen were inaugurated at the universities of Fort Hare and the Free State this month. 23 May 2017
Respect and research: Lessons from the San Code of Ethics The oldest and most over-researched community alive have formalised their demands for ethical research with the launch of the San code of ethics. 23 May 2017
Can I Please Go to the Bathroom? Centre for Film and Media Studies alumnus Jessie Zinn has produced a short film that highlights the importance of affordable sanitary products. 22 May 2017
Six UCT finalists in 2016/2017 NSTF-South32 Awards The finalists for the prestigious National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) awards were announced this week, with six UCT researchers honoured among them. 22 May 2017
GSB ranked in the top 100 UCT’s Graduate School of Business has retained its place in the top 100 business schools in the world for the seventh consecutive year. 19 May 2017
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