Ahead of International Day of Forests, the importance of protecting tree ecosystems comes into focus, including at UCT, where the urban forest is facing a new and growing threat.

Matthew Jordaan’s road to graduation was lined with a list of triumphs and defeats.

A collaborative study by researchers from UCT and other institutions has successfully isolated and characterised vaginal bacteria from South African women.

UCT is part of a new multi-university collaboration that aims to develop large language models for isiXhosa, isiZulu and Sepedi, while tackling ethical questions around AI in African contexts.

Meeting with academics at a UCT-hosted thinktank, the UN director general of the International Organization for Migration, Amy Pope, highlighted the importance of evidence-based migration reform.