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Shock and sadness at death of Stellenbosch University leader
Dr Max Price, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, expressed his shock and sadness at the sudden death of Professor Botman on Friday night, 27 June 2014. Dr Price said: "We worked closely...
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Club promotes homework culture at Khayelitsha school
Occupational Therapy (OT) students studying child learning development recently extended the scope of their involvement with a local school to include the establishment of a homework club for Grade 6...
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UCT Press celebrates 21 years
UCT Press hatched from the unlikely shell company Audio Vision, acquired by UCT in 1993. The scholarly publisher was first registered as a company in June of that year and its first titles were...
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UCT MOOCs to launch in early 2015
UCT will be joining leading universities from around the world in offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), a form of online education that can increase the reach of UCT's first-class teaching....
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LSE-UCT July School: New lessons, new friends and new networks
Learn not just from lecturers, but also from your fellow students, was the message to scholars at the launch of the second LSE-UCT July School on 29 June 2014. Students from a variety of disciplines,...
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Mobile phones give township residents a sense of belonging - UCT research
Research by a University of Cape Town PhD graduate explores how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) - specifically the use of mobile phones - help the mobile population of Cape Town's...
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UCT's new student admission policy explained
UCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price. The University of Cape Town Council approved in principle a new admissions policy model that will incorporate race as one of several factors to be considered in...
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UCT welcomes IMO to Africa
The University of Cape Town will host teams representing 107 countries (including 14 African countries) at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) beginning on 3 July 2014 when the IMO leaders...
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Shedding light on the life & times of JM Coetzee
Professor David Attwell is widely regarded as one of the foremost scholars on Coetzee - first having completed an MA at UCT under his supervision; then having written J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the...
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Social cohesion a 2010 FIFA World Cup legacy?
Nations unite, opposing fans embrace, rival players shake hands, and all is glorious under the floodlights. The euphoria lasts around 90 minutes. That's the average span of a soccer game, bar the...
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UCT-designed heart valve gives hope to Africa
Inexpensive heart valves and uniquely simple ways of putting them into patients, designed by a University of Cape Town (UCT) start-up company, have the potential to save the lives of millions of...
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UCT professors bag three wins at NSTF-BHP Billiton Awards
Three academics from the University of Cape Town have been honoured at the 16th Annual National Science and Technology Forum Annual National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)-BHP Billiton Awards for...
View ArticleCuring malaria and afro-pessimism with one pill
Could Africa be a place of innovation and cures, instead of disease and malady? UCT Professor of Organic Chemistry and Director of the H3-D Drug Discovery & Development Centre Kelly Chibale...
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Wine business diploma a first for GSB, South Africa
The Graduate School of Business' Wine Business Management course, a new specialisation in the Postgraduate Diploma in Management Practice, kicked off in May, filling a critical need for "vacant" skills...
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UCT expert steers successful study of US cholesterol drug trials
Dr Dirk Blom of the UCT/Groote Schuur's Hospital Division of Lipidology is first author of a New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) paper showing that novel US drug Evolocumab reduces "bad cholesterol"...
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Medical students give up holiday time to serve communities in need
While most students went on holiday, a group of SHAWCO Health medical student volunteers started the university vacation by running a week-long clinic serving communities in Vredenburg on the West...
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Let culture and nature redraw African boundaries
Maano Ramutsindela, Associate Professor in UCT's Department of Environmental and Geographical Science. All over the world boundaries are shifting and maps are being redrawn. In Africa, transnational...
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Kalumba aims to strengthen foundations
The task is simple: to ensure that everybody sleeps in safe homes. That responsibility falls on UCT's Dr Denis Kalumba, who was appointed last year to develop the curriculum and carry out training in...
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IMO 2014: Africa's proud mathematical heritage
Perceptions that Africa and Africans lag behind the rest of the world in mathematics are based on ignorance rather than reality, said Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price, speaking at the opening ceremony of...
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Innovative approaches to recycling and refuse disposal
UCT teamed up with Intel, the US semiconductor chip and inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, to help the company roll out 50 000 Intel Galileo boards to 1 000 universities in the next 18...
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