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Advancing Womxn: Informed choices for women’s contraception
Professor Janet Hapgood discussed her research on ‘Informed choices for women’s contraception’ in a virtual Women’s Month celebration on 13 August 2020.
14 Aug 2020
Off-the-shelf tech solutions for Africa
Catherine Gordon-Grant, from UCT’s Medical Devices Laboratory, is part of the OpenAir project that is creating cheap ventilators for critically ill patients.
14 Aug 2020
Celebrating the UCT women spearheading the fight against COVID-19
The University of Cape Town (UCT) celebrates 5 women who are making strides in the fight against COVID-19 in their respective fields.
13 Aug 2020
Lessons in collaboration for COVID-19 healthcare workers
Staff from UCT’s Division of Emergency Medicine are integral members of the Western Cape’s frontline COVID-19 team.
11 Aug 2020
Teaching is like ‘creating ripples in a pond’
Recipient of a 2019 Distinguished Teacher Award Associate Professor Romy Parker is achieving the goals she set for herself when she began teaching 15 years ago.
11 Aug 2020
Family Medicine registrar makes a difference in Manenberg
Dr Randall Ortel is the first medical doctor from the Manenberg area, situated on the Cape Flats. Notorious for its high levels of crime and gang-violence, Ortel was called on to employ his ‘insider perspective’ and leadership skills to assist his community to respond more efficiently to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
10 Aug 2020
Running into COVID-19 chaos
UCT’s Dr Lauren Lai King has been given an opportunity to show her mettle when she assumed the role of course convenor amid a pandemic.
07 Aug 2020
Ubuntu Booth prioritises frontline healthcare workers
A team of UCT academics have developed a special COVID-19 testing station to safeguard healthcare workers at the frontline of the pandemic.
05 Aug 2020
COVID-19: high-flow nasal cannula ‘valuable’ alternative to ventilation
Upscaling the use of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy on COVID-19 patients at Groote Schuur Hospital has yielded encouraging results.
04 Aug 2020
CIDRI-Africa jump-starts six COVID-19 research projects
UCT’s Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa has awarded “pump-priming” funding for six COVID-19 research projects.
04 Aug 2020
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UCT working together – apart
UCT News canvassed the campus community to find out from students and staff what their remote online teaching and learning experiences have been like.
03 Aug 2020
Connecting to UCT’s network off campus
UCT students and staff can access eduroam at a number of sites across Cape Town and South Africa.
03 Aug 2020
Vision 2030: virtual staff engagements roll out
A series of six virtual engagements with staff has begun to introduce UCT’s proposed Vision 2030 to the university community.
31 Jul 2020
Volunteers push back against pandemic with multi-pronged partnership
A sense of solidarity propelled communities into new partnerships, to contribute to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Volunteers at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are no exception. Tapping into their expertise and deep experience by working together, they have committed to supporting the national effort, says the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) director Professor Val Mizrahi.
31 Jul 2020
The shifting shape of the COVID-19 frontline
The COVID-19 frontline has shifted from a purely medical interface to include less-defined community spaces as community networks confront the pandemic’s social and economic fallout.
29 Jul 2020
UCT breathes LIFE into ventilator solution
UCT is part of a nationwide project to develop a local ventilator that has been authorised for rollout across South Africa.
28 Jul 2020
Lessons from a Pandemic: Division of Public Health Medicine
Team work. Collaboration. Learning and adapting. Building resilience. And showing vulnerability. These are some of the key lessons emerging from public health experts working at the cutting edge of the pandemic in the Division of Public Health Medicine, led by Professor Leslie London.
18 Jul 2020
Children with disabilities must be part of nation building
The two-day Teaching Empowerment for Disability Inclusion symposium webinar brought together practitioners, academics, government and civil society from around the world.
17 Jul 2020
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