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UCT announces landmark commitment to fossil fuel divestment
The University of Cape Town (UCT) Council has in-principle agreed to the divestment from fossil fuels. This includes divesting its endowment formally from the fossil fuel industry. Announcing its decision on the issue, the UCT Council noted that this approach will put back into society, the environment and the global economy more than is being taken out.
18 Mar 2022
Treatment period for children with minimal TB reduced
Findings of the SHINE trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that children with minimal tuberculosis (TB) do well on treatment and a four-month regimen is as effective as the standard six-month regimen. This has led to a change in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global guidelines for managing the disease.
11 Mar 2022
Nature-based solutions in mountains can reduce climate change impact on drought
New research , led by Dr Petra Holden from the African Climate and Development Initiative at UCT, has shown how catchment restoration – through the management of alien tree infestation in the mountains of the southwestern Cape – could have lessened the impact of climate change on low river flows during the Cape Town “Day Zero” drought.
09 Mar 2022
Heavy episodic drinkers consumed more booze than usual during lockdown, new research
New research has found that heavy episodic drinkers consumed more alcohol than usual during both increased and decreased lockdown restrictions and reported drinking more alcohol because they felt stressed, felt a need to relax, and felt bored.
09 Mar 2022
Facing the giants of the Tobacco industry and protecting health care
The sphere of science and academia engages with the tobacco industry and vaping advocates. Starting in a laboratory with “smoking cells” and t uberculosis bugs has morphed into advocacy for clean air, support for smokers and fighting back against giants.
08 Mar 2022
Inventor shortlisted for prestigious African award in engineering innovation
Dr Jack V Fletcher, the co-founder, director and chief technology officer of Hydrogen Energy Applications (HYENA), a University of Cape Town (UCT) spinoff company, is among 16 talented innovators who have been shortlisted for the 2022 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation (APEI). The company are fundraising for a second round of funding, which will include investment by UCT’s Evergreen Fund.
02 Mar 2022
Father and son duo produce free marine life educational videos
University of Cape Town (UCT) marine biologist Emeritus Professor Charles Griffiths and his filmmaker son, Matthew, have drawn on their scientific and artistic talents to produce a series of short educational videos on the organisms and features modern-day strandlopers and rock poolers will commonly encounter while exploring our coastlines.
02 Mar 2022
UCT partners with community filmmakers to effect social change
Sunshine Cinema and the Centre for Film and Media Studies (CFMS) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have partnered to create the Film Impact Screening Facilitator Short Course . This online short course explores the theory and practice of engaging with audiences on social change issues using documentary and fiction film screenings, discussions and other interventions. Pitched at working impact producers, communicators, creatives and purpose-driven Gen Z’s still new to the job market, the course provides a toolkit for sparking change.
01 Mar 2022
UCT to host MediVentors Lion's Den event
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (BMERC) invites you to the MediVentors Lion’s Den event on Wednesday, 2 March 2022.
01 Mar 2022
UCT researchers contribute to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is currently in its Sixth Assessment cycle , during which the IPCC will produce the assessment reports of its three Working Groups, three special reports, a refinement to the methodology report and the synthesis report.
28 Feb 2022
UCT honours country’s top matriculants and first-year scholarship recipients
The University of Cape Town (UCT) recently rolled out the blue carpet when Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng honoured 17 of the country’s top matriculants, now UCT first-year students. Each has earned a Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship for their stellar results.
25 Feb 2022
Efficacious COVID-19 vaccines increase uptake, new global study finds
Despite the unprecedented progress in developing COVID-19 vaccines, global vaccination levels needed to reach herd immunity remain a distant target while new variants keep emerging. According to a new global study, this will change if efficacious vaccines are offered.
24 Feb 2022
An academic by day and actress by night - finance lecturer gets full professorship
To most people, drama and accounting may seem like two poles at opposite ends of the academic spectrum. However, for Professor Gizelle Willows the pursuit of both these passions has led to finding a niche in behavioural finance as well as attaining a number of career highlights. Most recently, she was promoted ad hominem to full professor at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) College of Accounting.
22 Feb 2022
UCT sets its sights on conquering cancer
Despite being on the brink of elimination, more than 600 000 women develop cervical cancer each year. Of that number, 300 000 are lost to the disease. This loss of life has innumerable repercussions for both the women’s families and their communities, leading not only to a breakdown of the family unit but also spiralling cycles of poverty.
21 Feb 2022
Update on developments at UCT campuses
Classes at the University of Cape Town (UCT) started on Monday, 14 February 2022. The intention in 2022 is to return to more face-to-face teaching whilst continuing to adhere to public health requirements.
18 Feb 2022
Maternal anaemia investigated as a global health priority
University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD candidate Jessica Ringshaw is investigating the impact of maternal anaemia and iron deficiency during pregnancy on the child brain through her recently awarded Wellcome Trust International Training Fellowship.
18 Feb 2022
Works of prize-winning poet and novelist, Tatamkhulu Afrika should be revived
As a writer and poet Tatamkhulu Afrika’s work won many accolades. And yet his contributions to South African literature have been largely neglected, if not forgotten, said Dr Halim Gençoğlu, a University of Cape Town (UCT) Ottoman scholar and research fellow in the Department of Sociology’s Re-Centring Afro Asia Project .
18 Feb 2022
Update on developments at UCT campuses
The University of Cape Town (UCT) classes started on Monday, 14 February 2022. The intention in 2022 is to return to more face-to-face teaching whilst continuing to adhere to public health requirements.
17 Feb 2022
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