UCT sports manager Melissa Awu has been appointed as the team manager for Team South Africa’s athletics squad to compete in the FISU World University Games in Italy this month.

The SS Mendi memorial was held on UCT’s lower campus on Sunday, 8 March.

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) spring graduation was marked by historic milestones, including the awarding of honorary doctorates to four distinguished individuals and the official renaming of Jameson Hall to Sarah Baartman Hall, among other notable highlights.

Prof Elena Moore delivered her inaugural lecture on 4 March, titled: ‘Who Cares? The Directions of State–Family Relationships in Changing Times’.

The first synchrotron beamline that performs X-ray absorption spectroscopy will be housed in UCT’s Catalysis Institute in the Department of Chemical Engineering.