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Why we should care about dust - and the crucial role it plays in our climate
Dust doesn't get a lot of attention until it collects in dark corners, or blows up in dramatic storms. However, that is beginning to change. While carbon dioxide is the main driver of climate change, scientists have begun to realise that dust also plays a crucial but highly complex role in controlling global climate - as well as a number of other global scale processes, including ocean productivity, and even soil and water quality.
06 Oct 2015
UCT criminology centre gives meaning to SAPS crime statistics
The South African Police Services (SAPS) annual statistics have many shortcomings, but the report remains a valuable tool for figuring out the state of crime in the country, a report by the Centre of Criminology at the University of Cape Town titled: "A citizen's guide to SAPS crime statistics: 1994-2015" has noted.
05 Oct 2015
UCT climbs to 120 in THE world university rankings
The University of Cape Town has risen 4 places to 120 out of 800 institutions in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings of 2015/16. In the last 2 years UCT has steadily climbed up the ranking, from #126 in the 2013/14 period to #124 last year.
01 Oct 2015
Designers outline key proposals for 3 urban areas in Cape Town
International designers reveal details at guided walks at UCT's City Desired exhibition on Tuesday, 4 November 2014, at 09:00 and 13:00.
31 Oct 2014
UCT exhibition to profile 10 Capetonians
The challenges and possibilities facing Cape Town will be in the spotlight at a wide-ranging exhibition, City Desired, which opens at the Cape Town City Hall on Thursday, 30 October 2014, at 18:00, and runs until 10 December 10 2014.
30 Oct 2014
Upcoming UCT events
29 Oct 2014
UCT exhibition to profile 10 Capetonians and their possible future
Opening on Thursday, 30 October 2014: City Desired - a look at cities through the lens of Cape Town.
27 Oct 2014
UCT student meets untimely death
Please cite Patricia Lucas, Manager: Media Liaison & Communication, UCT
24 Oct 2014
UCT Interview Opportunities
16 Oct 2014
Department of Military Veterans, UCT to rededicate memorial to SS Mendi
Department of Military Veterans, UCT to host ceremony to remember 616 South Africans who perished in WW1 tragedy.
16 Oct 2014
UCT financial support applications close on 31 October
Potential students who have already applied for undergraduate study at the University of Cape Town in 2015, as well as current UCT students, have about 2 weeks to apply for financial support offered through the university system.
14 Oct 2014
Department of Military Veterans, UCT to rededicate memorial to SS Mendi
Ceremony at 11:00, Sunday, 19 October 2014 in UCT Lower Campus, Cecil Road, Rosebank, to remember 616 South Africans who perished in WWI sea tragedy.
13 Oct 2014
'No health without mental health,' say UCT researchers
World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2014 will focus on schizophrenia.
09 Oct 2014
Radio telescopes unravel mystery of nova gamma rays
Highly detailed radio-telescope images have pinpointed the locations where a stellar explosion called a classical nova emitted gamma rays, the highest-energy form of electromagnetic waves.
08 Oct 2014
2 330-year-old skeleton sheds light on human origin
Southern African archaeology significant in defining early modern human origins - UCT study
06 Oct 2014
Upcoming UCT event
Understanding and Preventing Violence in Africa Symposium
31 Oct 2013
Structural biology in everyday life: UCT prof breaks it down
Professor Trevor Sewell at the University of Cape Town will present his inaugural lecture, "A journey into inner Space: A view of biology from the atomic perspective" on Wednesday, 30 October 2013.
30 Oct 2013
Upcoming UCT interview opportunities
24 Oct 2013
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