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Providing excellent nursing care for Africa’s children
UCT’s Harry Crossley Children’s Nursing Development Unit continually finds opportunities to strengthen paediatric nursing practices on the African continent.
10 Sep 2021
Women benefit more from collaboration
The positive effects of research collaboration are stronger for women researchers than their men counterparts, says a new paper on the topic.
09 Sep 2021
The ancient African plant that captured Armani’s attention
Professor Jill Farrant is advising Giorgio Armani on the exceptional anti-ageing properties of resurrection plants, while simultaneously contributing to the plants’ own longevity.
07 Sep 2021
Turning Africa’s cities into a source of optimism and sustainable development
The busy cities we live in have momentum of their own. But if we do not put them on to a more sustainable footing, this key source of human connectivity and innovation may well contribute to our demise, writes Professor Edgar Pieterse, the founding director of the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and holder of the South African Research Chair in Urban Policy.
07 Sep 2021
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UCT’s and Sasol’s significant step toward CO2 hydrogenation technology
UCT and Sasol are collaborating on the use of commercial iron catalysts to convert hydrogen and CO2 into green jet fuel.
07 Sep 2021
UCT first in Africa in the world rankings
UCT has retained the top spot in Africa on the Times Higher Education rankings.
06 Sep 2021
UCT to host international summit on SDGs in Africa
UCT will host the virtual three-day International Summit on Sustainable Development Goals in Africa from 13 to 15 September 2021.
03 Sep 2021
UCT Law builds closer ties with the Permanent Court of Arbitration
An MoU between the Permanent Court of Arbitration and UCT will see a court representative in South Africa drawn from the UCT Law faculty, and a fellowship established.
02 Sep 2021
Crime statistics show South Africa’s lockdown ‘crime holiday’ is over
UCT postdoctoral fellow Anine Kriegler puts South Africa’s recently released quarterly crime statistics into context.
02 Sep 2021
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Global South research: humpback whales and climate change
Two University of Cape Town researchers to join global research partnership studying the effects of climate change on humpback whales in the Southern Ocean.
29 Sep 2020
UCT GSB teaching case study wins top international award
Researchers from the UCT GSB have won a prestigious international case writing competition for a new teaching case on the challenges faced by the South African cardiac device industry.
29 Sep 2020
Videos unpack intricacies of land administration in SA
Academics at UCT and the University of the Western Cape have partnered to produce a series of videos that provide simplified explanations to land administration in South Africa.
29 Sep 2020
Battling a pandemic: an African perspective
A paper by UCT researchers describing an African perspective on global approaches to the fight against SARS-CoV 2 has recently been published in Nature Reviews Microbiology.
23 Sep 2020
UCT launches milestone Khoi and San Centre
UCT marked a historic moment on its journey of transformation when it launched the Khoi and San Centre on 21 September.
23 Sep 2020
Documenting and preserving African heritage sites
Through its repository of spatial data of African cultural heritage sites, the Zamani Project is contributing to UCT’s roots as an African university.
23 Sep 2020
Forgotten diseases hit poorest billion hardest during pandemic
A new Lancet Commission report shows that non-communicable diseases and injuries cause more death and disability at every age among the world’s poorest billion than in wealthy countries.
22 Sep 2020
Trusting local knowledge: the case of fire management in a Namibian park
Fire and humans have a long history in African savannas. Fire management has played a role in maintaining biodiversity and in the livelihoods of rural communities.
22 Sep 2020
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Preserving cultural heritage through state-of-the-art technology
UCT’s Zamani Project is hard at work producing authentic and accurate data to support heritage conservation experts and help preserve culturally sensitive sites.
22 Sep 2020
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