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13 Mar 2013
UCT's Little Theatre to close for roof repairs
The University of Cape Town's Little Theatre is to close for maintenance while the roof is being repaired.
08 Mar 2013
UCT events and interview opportunities for week of 11 March 2013
08 Mar 2013
UCT students plan historic Argus Cycle Tour with buggy
University of Cape Town first-year student and ability activist, Chaeli Mycroft, will take part in the Pick 'n Pay Argus Cycle Tour on Sunday - riding behind fellow UCT student Grant Kruger.
08 Mar 2013
Oxford professor to speak on A Matter of Gravity - God, the Universe and Stephen Hawking at UCT
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture to feature Professor John Lennox on Tuesday, 12 March 2013, at 17:45 at the Baxter Theatre, Rondebosch
07 Mar 2013
Former presidential advisor Alan Hirsch appointed to pioneering position in the UCT's Commerce Faculty
Professor Alan Hirsch, a former Chief Economist to the Presidency, has been appointed as the founding director of the newly-created Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Cape Town.
01 Mar 2013
Prestigious award for UCT's champion of drug discovery
University of Cape Town professor Kelly Chibale was presented the 2011 Alan Pifer Research Award on 15 March 2012, in recognition of his establishment of the H3-D Drug Discovery and Development Centre - the first centre of its kind in Africa, which runs under Professor Chibale's direction.
20 Mar 2012
UCT champion of urban poor and city improvement honoured with prestigious award
University of Cape Town Professor Susan Parnell is the 2010 recipient of the Alan Pifer Research Award, for her work in urban poverty reduction and environmental management.
29 Mar 2011
Isdell's $1m donation kicks off UCT rugby stadium project
A donation of US$1 million (about R7 million) by alumnus Neville Isdell to the Rugby Club on 7 March 2010 has allowed the University of Cape Town to dust off its long-nursed plans to build a rugby stadium.
15 Mar 2011
UCT Deputy Vice-Chancellor Beall steps down
Professor Jo Beall, a deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Cape Town, has tendered her resignation to take up the position of Director of Education and Society at the British Council in London. Her resignation will take effect at the end of April.
07 Mar 2011
GIPCA hosts panel discussion on Palestine, Israel, and South Africa
The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) is hosting a panel discussion on "Palestine, Israel and South Africa" on Thursday 10 March at 17:30, as part of its ongoing Great Texts/Big Questions public lecture series. This free public lecture will take place at Hiddingh Hall, University of Cape Town (UCT) Hiddingh Campus, Orange Street, Cape Town.
03 Mar 2011
Award recipient focuses on mental health in disadvantaged communities
In recognition of his contribution to welfare-related research, Professor Dan Stein, head of UCT's Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, was awarded the prestigious Alan Pifer Research Award on 24 March 2010. The annual award honours UCT researchers whose welfare-related work has contributed to the advancement and welfare of South Africa's disadvantaged people.
31 Mar 2010
UCT student council uses apartheid strategy to pull students together
Students and staff at the University of Cape Town were shocked in February 2010 when they found stickers declaring certain parts of the campus "Whites Only" "Asians Only" and "Blacks Only". The apartheid-style stickers were pasted on places like benches, banking ATMs, and entrances to lecture theatres and libraries. If outraged students tore them down, they later found them replaced, sometimes on the same day.
24 Mar 2010
Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi to deliver Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Professor Rajmohan Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, will speak on Voyage of Dialogue and Discovery: Peace and Security in the 21st Century, at the VC's Open Lecture on 23 March 2010.
19 Mar 2010
Tiffin brings new rhythm to UCT jazz vocals programme
As a young child, jazz sensation Amanda Tiffin used to take the part of "teacher" when playing with her siblings, so her appointment as the new head of jazz vocals at UCT's South African College of Music (SACM) has brought her full circle.
17 Mar 2010
New wiki welcomes fynbos fans and fundis
The University of Cape Town has joined forces with the University of Regensburg in Germany to start a FynbosWiki that makes information on fynbos and fynbos ecology easily accessible online. Researchers from the 2 institutions are using the site to collate and exchange knowledge of the fynbos biome and beyond, and to share this information with others.
10 Mar 2010
UCT signs first Lusophone partnership with another African university
The University of Cape Town today signed its first partnership agreement with a university in a Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) African nation. UCT Vice-Chancellor, Dr Max Price and Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) Rector, Prof Doutor Filipe José Couto signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) committing the 2 universities to cooperate and collaborate in teaching, research and other areas across the faculties of the 2 universities.
09 Mar 2010
UCT message of condolences to the family of Phyllis Spira
Phyllis Spira was an integral part of the dance scene at the University of Cape Town for almost forty years. UCT Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Njabulo S Ndebele conveyed a message of condolences to the family and friends of Spira, on behalf of the UCT community and dance colleagues.
12 Mar 2008
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