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UCT student makes history in genetics 04 Dec 2019 Republished
Safety first: VC Award for big picture thinker Responsible for chemical health and safety in the chemistry and chemical engineering departments, Monique Muller has won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Service Excellence. 29 Nov 2019
Sustainability key for new SRC The newly elected SRC for 2019/2020 is committed to creating and implementing sustainable programmes that will outlive their term of office. 28 Nov 2019
Brain injury and infection in children Dr Ursula Rohlwink, with UCT's Division of Neurosurgery, has focused her work on children with traumatic brain injury and the neuro-infection TB meningitis. 28 Nov 2019
Community building for cleaning, catering teams UCT’s first annual general meeting for residence cleaning and catering staff was about celebration and consolidation – and building a healthy community. 27 Nov 2019
HIV factor in kidney transplants: research sheds new light on risks UCT’s Dr Elmi Muller and colleagues looked at the longer-term outcomes of HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive renal transplantation. 27 Nov 2019 Republished
Safeguarding the judiciary New research and guidelines from UCT could lead to more transparent selection of judicial officers in southern Africa. 27 Nov 2019
Students head to national computing competition final Two student teams from UCT will participate in the gruelling second and final round of the Centre for High Performance Computing’s Student Cluster Competition. 26 Nov 2019
UCT scientist takes to the catwalk UCT PhD student Lyle Curry is one of 13 full-figured men who will model a new plus-size men’s range at the Radisson RED Hotel at the V&A Waterfront. 26 Nov 2019 Republished
Inside growing brains Safe and non-invasive techniques for visualising the brain have changed the way we study children’s development, particularly in high-risk contexts. 22 Nov 2019
Prestigious scholarship for star pupil Prospective UCT student Terrell Demorgan has been awarded the inaugural Daniel Samuel Maseko Memorial Scholarship for 2020. 22 Nov 2019
Co-creating a locally relevant web Dr Melissa Densmore’s research into bandwidth-constrained communities in and around Cape Town tackles difficult questions about what the internet should look like in Africa. 22 Nov 2019
The highest energy light from a gamma-ray burst detected UCT astronomers are part of an international team that have taken the next step towards understanding extreme stellar explosions. 21 Nov 2019
The dead teach in a universal language Dissection is core to teaching anatomy but how do UCT’s second-year medical students prepare for their first clinical encounter with the dead? 21 Nov 2019
UCT prof leads ground-breaking pollen monitoring campaign The Division of Allergology and Immunology at UCT’s Lung Institute is leading a multidisciplinary project that examines the levels of pollen across South Africa. 20 Nov 2019
Tackling HIV: one haircut at a time In collaboration with Legends Barbershop, the Amajita Tutu Truck gave 50 men free HIV tests and complimentary haircuts on International Men’s Day on 19 November. 20 Nov 2019
Mining for the future The Minerals to Metals Initiative at UCT is working with the mining industry to help it become more people- and planet-centred. 20 Nov 2019
Two UCT subjects in top 100 UCT is among the top 100 globally for clinical, pre-clinical and health, and social sciences in the 2020 Times Higher Education Rankings by subject. 19 Nov 2019
Infecting, disrupting and transforming the City UCT and the Institute for Creative Arts presents Infecting the City, which runs from 18 to 24 November, showcasing thought-provoking, transformative and inspiring creative works. 19 Nov 2019
Collaboration pushes frontiers of anti-malaria drug regimes UCT and Medicines for Malaria Venture are collaborating in order to discover and develop medicines to help tackle the burden of the disease. 19 Nov 2019 Republished
Experimental film at Iziko Planetarium and Digital Dome This first-of-its-kind immersive film experience was a collaboration between the Centre for Curating the Archive and Iziko Museums of South Africa. 18 Nov 2019
Executive MBA in the global top 50 The UCT Graduate School of Business’s EMBA programme is the first in Africa to be ranked in the top 50 worldwide by the Financial Times. 18 Nov 2019
Flows in the global fertility market Associate Professor Amrita Pande’s latest research looks at the global fertility industry and its labourers making babies in the 21st century. 18 Nov 2019
Extinct plant rediscovered after 200 years A wildflower, thought to be extinct, has been rediscovered by a UCT PhD student on a farm near Tulbagh. 15 Nov 2019 Republished
PET-CT scanner heralds new era in TB research CUBIC has launched its Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography Core Research Facility, increasing capacity in cutting-edge medical research on TB and other diseases. 14 Nov 2019
‘Seven threats to the future of the academy’ In an address to the Faculty of Commerce, Professor Jonathan Jansen described the most critical “threats to [the] future of the academy” in South Africa. 14 Nov 2019
UCT researchers excel at L’Oréal-UNESCO awards Four women researchers from UCT were among those feted by the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science South African National Programme. 13 Nov 2019
Farming in South Africa is under threat from climate change. Here’s how Climate scientist and researcher at UCT Dr Peter Johnston provides his recommendations on what can be done to increase climate resilience in agriculture. 13 Nov 2019 Republished
‘Help us change our institution’ UCT Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng urged the 2019 New Academic Practitioners’ Programme (NAPP) cohort to help build a better and stronger university. 12 Nov 2019
‘I’m seeing activism in South Africa’ UCT Council member Nazeema Mohamed says responding to gender-based violence in higher education institutions needs to be a unified effort. 12 Nov 2019
UCT GSB global leader in ethical business education The UCT GSB is the only business school in Africa to feature in the 2019 Corporate Knights Better World MBA Ranking. 11 Nov 2019
 
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