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Grad edition of Monday Paper, the corporate news journal for UCT
Human interest stories that have been published in the Monday Paper.
13 Dec 2011
New UCT research dips into water management issues
Three graduands at the University of Cape Town will receive their doctoral degrees this month for their research into water management. In their respective theses they compare water use by indigenous trees with that of alien species; consider how low-flow events affect rivers; and examine the use of algae as water quality indicators in KwaZulu-Natal rivers.
13 Dec 2011
Taxation can slow global warming behaviour - UCT research
Concerns about the political and economic consequences of carbon taxation are not necessarily justified, and such taxes can provide a cost-effective means of changing human behaviour and encouraging technological improvements in the use of fossil fuels, according to Nadia Kamm, a PhD graduand in Public Law at the University of Cape Town.
13 Dec 2011
UCT researcher demonstrates better formula for maths education
University of Cape Town doctoral student Margaret Long's thesis, Mathematical, cognitive and didactic elements of the multiplicative conceptual field investigated within a Rasch assessment and measurement framework, shows how mathematics teachers can instantly improve the performance of their learners by clustering them according to test performance. She demonstrates the usefulness of such methods for Grades 7 to 9, but shows that the framework can extend in principle to all school grade levels.
13 Dec 2011
UCT researchers put the university under the lens
Three PhD candidates at the University of Cape Town have focused their respective research theses on the university environment -- with one thesis focusing on the University of Rhodesia from 1945 to 1980. Their conclusions can apply to other organisations as well, especially those dealing with transformation and institutional change.
13 Dec 2011
UCT research examines portrayals of women in Drum adverts - from demeaning to empowering
Business Administration PhD graduand Mlenga Golden Jere takes a deep look at the portrayal of women as message sources in advertisements that appeared in Drum between 1981 and 2010.
13 Dec 2011
UCT to confer honorary degree on David Potter today
Inventor, entrepreneur and a philanthropist Dr David Potter will receive an honorary doctorate in Engineering Science today, 13 December, at 15h00, at the University of Cape Town. In 1980, he founded the software company Psion, which later introduced the world's first handheld computer and the term "netbook" to the industry.
13 Dec 2011
Dust's effects on climate: UCT researchers dig up the dirt
Particles floating in the atmosphere (known as aerosols) cause the seasonal average surface temperature in southern Africa to fall by as much as 2
13 Dec 2011
Space satellites help UCT researcher dive into study of southern African ocean currents
Marjolaine Rouault's PhD thesis, Agulhas current variability determined from space: a multi-sensor approach, used complex earth observation techniques to study the major ocean currents around southern Africa.
13 Dec 2011
UCT research makes case for protecting contract workers
There is a growing trend among South African firms to contract work out to miners, truck drivers, construction workers and clothing machinists, and to treat these contract workers as self-employed rather than staff workers under labour law. Many of these "self-employed" workers in turn employ others to help them complete a job. Research by Pamhidzai Bamu, a PhD graduand in Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town, broadly considers the development of this informal and precarious work in a global context.
12 Dec 2011
98% pass rate for UCT's MBChB grads
The graduating class of the MBChB degree programme for 2011 at the University of Cape Town has achieved a pass rate of 97.7 percent - including Vuyane Mhlomi from Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, who is graduating third in his class with an average in 2011 of 76.6 percent in his final year of study for the medical degree.
12 Dec 2011
Tutu unable to attend UCT grad ceremony today
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu will not be attending the graduation ceremony this morning at the University of Cape Town, as he has not been released from hospital following a medical procedure over the weekend. UCT has no further details about his condition.
12 Dec 2011
UCT research aims to smooth finance hurdles for SMMEs
New research out of the University of Cape Town offers guidelines for improving bank creditworthiness assessment processes for financing the small, medium and micro-enterprise (SMME) sector, which has been identified as a critical growth area for the country's economy.
12 Dec 2011
Emotional intelligence smartens up sports success, finds UCT study
Success on the sporting field is as much about being sensitive to fellow teammates' needs as it is about physical preparedness, according to research done by Exercise Science PhD graduand David Thomas Crombie at the University of Cape Town.
12 Dec 2011
The sword in the stone: UCT research documents ancient human movement in Garden Route cave complex
A well-dated cave complex at Pinnacle Point in the Garden Route contains a rich archaeological record of human occupation covering most of the known chronological range of the Middle Stone Age. This is according to University of Cape Town student Kyle Brown. According to his PhD thesis,The sword in the stone: lithic raw material exploitation in the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point site 5-6, Southern Cape, South Africa, this locality represents one of the most important archaeological sites in southern Africa in the Middle Stone Age (about 280 000 to 40 000 years Before Present). Brown's thesis represents a comprehensive analysis of the stone artefacts from the site.
12 Dec 2011
Mothers transmit trauma to children, suggests UCT research
University of Cape Town PhD student Bruce Christopher Bradfield's thesis, A relational psychoanalytic exploration of the intergenerational transmission of trauma from mothers to their adult children, suggests that trauma is not limited to the person experiencing it. Instead, Bradfield suggests, it can be transmitted from mother to child.
12 Dec 2011
UCT research looks at the mate-swapping albatross, the non-conforming penguin and other fowl topics
Six doctoral students at the University of Cape Town have completed studies on southern African birdlife: 5 of them focusing on specific species, while the sixth travelled 160km on foot, collecting almost 1 million vegetation data points and more than 32,000 insects, and monitoring more than 400 birds' nests to calculate the diversity of grassland.
09 Dec 2011
UCT research tackles Ghana's barriers to healthcare access
The University of Cape Town is set to graduate more than 70 PhDs during the December 2011 graduation ceremonies. Among these are international students whose research focused on issues specific to their home countries. With a primary focus on Ghana, Bertha Garshong's thesis tackles the challenge of access to healthcare.
09 Dec 2011
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