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Palaeoscience fellows score for science and diversity
Meet the Human Evolution Research Institute’s inaugural 2020 Advancing Womxn fellows, Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise and Rivoningo Khosa, who are scoring for science and diversity.
20 Aug 2020
UCT tap water study goes postal
UCT researchers enlisted the help of the South African Post Office to discover the likely sources of tap water across the country.
18 Aug 2020
Making the postgrad international experience more equitable
The next instalment in UCT's series of challenging conversations – Unleashing the new global university – is scheduled for Monday 24 August 2020.
17 Aug 2020
Pamela Phatsimo Suntrum’s work published
UCT’s Michaelis Galleries has published There Are Mechanisms in Place – a book about Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s work.
14 Aug 2020
Simple tech solution is an ear saver
Meet Lara Timm whose clever, inexpensive device improves the comfort and fit of face masks with ear loops, typically worn by frontline medical staff.
14 Aug 2020
Off-the-shelf tech solutions for Africa
Catherine Gordon-Grant, from UCT’s Medical Devices Laboratory, is part of the OpenAir project that is creating cheap ventilators for critically ill patients.
14 Aug 2020
Translating the geological record into isiXhosa
A project based in UCT’s Department of Geological Sciences is translating the country’s geological record into South African languages – starting with isiXhosa.
12 Aug 2020
AI trained to study individual birds in wild populations
Using artificial intelligence, biologists can now train computers to recognise individual birds in wild populations by their feather formations – good news for conservation biology.
07 Aug 2020
COVID-19: high-flow nasal cannula ‘valuable’ alternative to ventilation
Upscaling the use of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy on COVID-19 patients at Groote Schuur Hospital has yielded encouraging results.
04 Aug 2020
CIDRI-Africa jump-starts six COVID-19 research projects
UCT’s Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa has awarded “pump-priming” funding for six COVID-19 research projects.
04 Aug 2020
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Can undergraduate international exchange programmes go virtual?
Educators and institutions attempt to push the boundaries of digital education with virtual exchange programmes in the hopes of becoming more inclusive.
04 Aug 2020
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Women’s work, food and reproductive labour: a snapshot of gender equality research at UCT
UCT researchers are working to better understand how gender inequality continues to affect every aspect of women’s lives in South Africa.
04 Aug 2020
UCT researchers selected for global climate change report
UCT’s Professor Harald Winkler and Dr Christopher Trisos join a team of 39 peers from across the world to produce a global climate change report.
03 Aug 2020
Study lets cat out of the bag
In an African first, the prey returns of domestic cats were compared to video kills to reveal that cats kill 5.56 times more animals than returns data suggested.
03 Aug 2020
UCT engineer awarded ‘science Oscar’ for capacity development
UCT's Associate Professor Abimbola Windapo was one of the recipients of a prestigious National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)–South32 award during a virtual event.
31 Jul 2020
Vision 2030: virtual staff engagements roll out
A series of six virtual engagements with staff has begun to introduce UCT’s proposed Vision 2030 to the university community.
31 Jul 2020
Language innovation during a pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals how language innovation serves to record our hopes, but also our fragility in the face of bigger forces in the universe.
31 Jul 2020
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Record attendance for Virtual Strings 2020 conference
The international Virtual Strings 2020 conference hosted by UCT marked three milestones, with significant ramifications for international research conferences and sustainability.
30 Jul 2020
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