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UCT’S annual HoDs dinner and workshop
UCT has held its annual dinner and workshop for its academic heads of department.
05 Apr 2019
‘TB is not a drama queen’
National health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi used the occasion of the annual Steve Lawn Memorial Lecture to share his thoughts on why TB remains a deadly disease.
05 Apr 2019
New exhibition retells Bo-Kaap Museum story
The Bo-Kaap Museum has opened a new chapter with an exhibition that retells the story of the early history of the building in which it is housed.
04 Apr 2019
SA’s first deaf law graduate
Qobo Ningiza refused to be put off by multiple rejections, and next week he will become South Africa’s first deaf law graduate.
04 Apr 2019
‘Imposter’ graduates with full suite of distinctions
Severely burnt in a gas explosion 15 years ago, 24-year-old Aniek Nieuwenhuis has found new meaning in her life, defying the odds stacked against her.
04 Apr 2019
Support for HoDs in complex environment
Leading and managing complexity was the theme of this year’s Academic Heads of Department Workshop, hosted by Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng.
04 Apr 2019
‘It’s not peacetime yet’ at UCT
UCT Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng shared her views on the state of the institution during her keynote address at the annual HoD Dinner on 2 April.
03 Apr 2019
Professor Michael Feast: 1926–2019
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Michael William Feast, who died on 1 April 2019.
03 Apr 2019
Key lessons from Cape Town drought
Cities must build their capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate change, and the Cape Town drought experience has many good lessons to offer.
03 Apr 2019
Republished
A way forward for SA’s energy supply
A new study from UCT’s Energy Research Centre outlines how best to achieve a cheaper, cleaner and more reliable electricity supply for South Africa.
03 Apr 2019
Chancellor’s Cyclone Idai appeal
UCT Chancellor Graça Machel’s trust is driving a bid to mobilise resources to provide relief to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in the wake of Cyclone Idai.
02 Apr 2019
5 questions with Nadia Ikumi
Dr Nadia Ikumi, the first African to be awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the AXA Research Fund, talks about her research into HIV and pregnant women.
02 Apr 2019
UCT scientists return from a scientific expedition to the remote Weddell Sea in Antarctica
A team of research scientists from UCT and Nelson Mandela University (NMU) arrived back in Cape Town after a pioneering expedition to the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.
02 Apr 2019
Priceless climate-change data haul from Antarctica
Thousands of seawater, ice and plankton samples accompanied UCT researchers back from Antarctica, a bounty that will yield much vital data about ice shelves and climate change.
02 Apr 2019
Professor Michael Feast: 1926–2019
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Michael William Feast, who died on 1 April 2019.
01 Apr 2019
Joint bid to tackle blast injuries
Africa’s first Blast Injury Research Network aims to improve research into injuries sustained as a result of conflict, landmines and explosive remnants of war.
01 Apr 2019
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