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Cooperation between people and wild animals poses unique conservation challenges
While pet dogs are often said to be “man's best friend”, less is known about the remarkable cooperative partnerships that exist between people and wild animals. In some African communities, people cooperate with wax-eating birds called greater honeyguides to find wild honey. In parts of Brazil and Myanmar, artisanal fishers cooperate with wild dolphins to catch fish. Unfortunately, these unique practices are under threat: people once cooperated with orcas to hunt whales, and with wolves to bring down large prey, but these partnerships have already gone extinct.
10 Jun 2022
Study finds triple excess natural deaths than COVID-19 deaths tally in SA
New findings led by researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) show that there were about three times the number of excess deaths from natural causes during 2020 and 2021 than reported COVID-19 deaths.
09 Jun 2022
UCT engineering students win JSE challenge with analytical skills
An all-female, University of Cape Town (UCT) team of students has won the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) Investment Challenge “Speculator portfolio for universities” category, for March and April 2022.
08 Jun 2022
UCT Vice-Chancellor dedicates honorary doctorate to African women who paved the path
University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has dedicated her honorary doctorate granted by the University of Ottawa to “three of the many African women who chose to challenge the status quo and fight for a world where women are equal”.
08 Jun 2022
Community interventions needed to prevent violence in schools
Estimates show that annually more than a billion children experience some form of violence and a significant proportion of that happens at schools in the Global South, according to a report co-authored by Professor Shanaaz Mathews, the director of the Children’s Institute (CI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Whole community interventions are essential to sustainable prevention strategies, she said.
07 Jun 2022
Another honorary doctorate for UCT Vice-Chancellor
Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, the University of Cape Town (UCT) Vice-Chancellor, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa on Tuesday, 7 June 2022.
07 Jun 2022
New study sheds light on violent crimes against children
Abandoned, raped and sexually assaulted, and abused is the daily harrowing reality for thousands of children in South Africa. Sadly, according to research by the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Children’s Institute (CI), many of these serious and violent crimes go unnoticed and unreported – leaving the perpetrators to roam free – and young victims of violence with inadequate care and long-lasting psychological effects.
07 Jun 2022
UCT chief financial officer re-appointed as SAICA chairperson
University of Cape Town (UCT) Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Vincent Motholo, has been reappointed as chairperson of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).
06 Jun 2022
New UCT women’s leadership programme to improve public sector service delivery
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance in partnership with Zenande Leadership Consulting – a consultancy committed to developing women in leadership positions – have developed the Local Government Women’s Leadership Development Programme, which targets women leaders in council and local government institutions.
03 Jun 2022
Ground-breaking project to monitor wildlife using robotics and AI
In a novel transdisciplinary project, University of Cape Town (UCT) academic Associate Professor Amir Patel has set his sights on using robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to effectively monitor the health status of wildlife – a game-changer for the fields of ecology and conservation management in South Africa.
02 Jun 2022
Study finds being male and obese are not associated with ICU mortality in COVID-19 patients
A new international study has shown that contrary to some previous research, being male and increasing body mass index (BMI) are not associated with increased mortality in COVID-19 in patients admitted into intensive care (ICU).
30 Jun 2021
Eid gatherings may have inadvertently precipitated high COVID-19 deaths in the Muslim community
Close social interactions during the period leading up to and including on the Eid day are likely to have inadvertently precipitated high COVID-19 deaths in the Muslim community, according to South Africa’s leading medical scientists.
29 Jun 2021
Portal to understand youth challenges in South Africa expands into tool for service mapping and referrals
The richest mine of data on youth in South Africa, the Youth Explorer Portal – which gives statistics on different aspects of health, education, employment and living conditions across all nine provinces and across all wards within those – has now been expanded into a tool for service mapping and referrals.
29 Jun 2021
UCT part of UN endorsed international network to boost sustainable ocean cities
The Ocean Cities (OC-NET) Programme, in which the University of Cape Town’s Marine and Antarctic Research Centre for Innovation and Sustainability (MARIS) participates, has received endorsement as an official United Nations (UN) Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development programme under the first ‘Decade call for Action’. The UN Ocean Decade harnesses, stimulates and coordinates interdisciplinary research efforts at all levels, in order to generate and use knowledge for the transformational action needed to achieve a healthy, safe, and resilient ocean for sustainable development by 2030 and beyond.
25 Jun 2021
First-year social work student develops multilingual anti-mugging guide
A first-year University of Cape Town (UCT) social work student, Zukile Ntentema, has developed a set of anti-mugging guidelines to help Capetonians remain vigilant while out on the streets. This is part of his ongoing commitment to civic engagement and improving the lives of others.
24 Jun 2021
HIV and TB co-infection skews SARS-CoV-2 T cell response, study finds
A study led by the University of Cape Town (UCT) has provided new information on the relationship between SARS-CoV-2–specific CD4 response to COVID-19 severity and impact of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) co-infection.
23 Jun 2021
Smuts Hall renaming marks a new moment for UCT since #RhodesMustFall
The renaming process for Smuts Hall residence marks a new moment for the University of Cape Town (UCT) and indicates how far the institution has come – under the current executive leadership – since the time of #RhodesMustFall.
21 Jun 2021
UCT’s 24-year-old academic encourages the youth to find their passion
The first time Jeshika Luckrajh held a dissection scalpel she knew where her future lay. This Youth Month, the lecturer in clinical anatomy at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Human Biology , talks about her steep trajectory into academia at the age of just 23 (she’s now 24) and the importance of mentors.
18 Jun 2021
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