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Organ engineering essay wins lucidity prize
It's been called Frankensteinian and with good reason. There's little doubt that 3D human organ and tissue printing, or bio-printing, will push the frontiers of medical science and ethics. Think...
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Low-cost computer training at SHAWCO community centres
SHAWCO (Students' Health and Welfare Centres Organisation), which has served communities in need across Cape Town for the past 71 years, has extended its community services to include basic computer...
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Foot helps audiences find hope at Baxter
Hot on the heels of its success at the National Arts Festival, writer/director Lara Foot's latest play Fishers of Hope, subtitled Taweret,comes to the Baxter Flipside for a short season until 2 August....
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Staff transformation at UCT
Transformation is a challenge for all South African higher education institutions. In response to recent discussions on this important topic in the media, UCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price outlines what...
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Unexpected findings in HIV meningitis treatment trial can save lives
UCT investigators in collaboration with Ugandan and American colleagues found that HIV patients with cryptococcal meningitis - a common AIDS-related infection - should first be fully treated for the...
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Warm welcome back for development policy and practice students
Twenty-three MPhil in Development Policy and Practice students, the first cohort in the new Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP), in the Faculty of Commerce, were welcomed back to...
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Made in the stars
It's four billion years from now. Earth is no longer habitable as our sun, now a massive red giant, has turned the planet into a hot, barren wasteland. Man - if he survived in an earlier age - has...
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125-million-year-old Changyuraptor sheds light on dinosaur flight
An international team of experts, including Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan from the University of Cape Town (UCT), has discovered a new predatory dinosaur with very long feathers that sheds light on...
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Fundraising phonathon a roaring success
UCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price was among those who recently congratulated the students who helped the university raise R5.4-million - three times their target - in the annual phonathon. UCT...
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UCT mourns death of literary grande dame Nadine Gordimer
UCT notes with sadness the passing of South African literary giant Nadine Gordimer (90) at her home in Johannesburg on 13 July. Gordimer is counted among the university's extended community, having...
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Give 67 minutes to SHAWCO this Mandela Day
Building on the success of their 2013 Mandela Day community outreach, SHAWCO will be running rotations of buses between UCT and four SHAWCO centres, so that UCT students and staff can give 67 minutes...
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UCT and Children's Hospital highlight World Breastfeeding Week
UCT staff from the Child Nurse Practice Development Initiative and a multidisciplinary team of dieticians and nurses from the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital will host several events to mark...
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Earlier Stone Age artifacts found in Northern Cape
Excavations at an archaeological site at Kathu in the Northern Cape province of South Africa have produced tens of thousands of Earlier Stone Age artifacts, including hand axes and other tools. These...
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SHAWCO brings sunshine on Mandela Day
Wintry weather dampened few spirits on 18 July as SHAWCO commemorated Mandela Day by helping school children from around the Cape Flats vivify their communities, in keeping with the late Madiba's...
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Chancellor to host Chilean president at UCT
UCT Chancellor, Mrs Graça Machel, will host Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, a key speaker in Gender in Dialogue, an event taking place on 10 August at Jameson Hall. President Michelle Bachelet of...
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Major international award to UCT Professor of Child & Adolescent...
Prof Petrus de Vries, Sue Struengmann Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cape Town, has received a major...
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More ideas for growing the black and female professoriate
Acknowledging the challenges of transforming South African universities, UCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price adds to colleague Associate Professor Xolela Mangcu's suggestions in a recent City Press...
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First woman marine scientist wins Gilchrist medal
It wasn't long ago that marine scientist Coleen Moloney counted only one woman at research meetings and workshops. It could be lonely, she says, but at least she didn't have to queue for the toilet....
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Baxter benefit concert to help local community
Some of the biggest names in South African entertainment will come together at the Baxter Concert Theatre for one night only on 16 August in support of the Hanover Park project, a UCT Perinatal Mental...
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Surfers ride the crest at USSA championships
UCT surfers left the competition in their wake at the annual USSA Surfing Tournament in the winter vacation, claiming top spot overall in the year's most significant university surfing contest. Each...
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