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Remembering Brian Paddon (1932-2015)
Emeritus Associate Professor Brian Paddon passed away on 20 June 2015 having been an academic in the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1969 until his retirement in 1994. Brian was born in...
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Remembering Bryan Davies
Bryan Davies was a freshwater ecologist in the Department of Zoology at UCT from about 1980 until his early retirement in about 2003. He did his PhD on chironomids (non-biting midges) in Loch Leven,...
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UCT award winners light the way for next generation
Four UCT researchers and innovators were recognised for their great work and contribution to South African society on Thursday night at the 17th annual National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)...
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UCT hosts Cuban medical graduation
UCT recently hosted a graduation ceremony for doctors trained through a bilateral agreement between Cuba and South Africa, aimed at boosting rural health care. On Friday 10 July, 47 newly qualified...
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UCT Choir teams up with the Whiffs
The Whiffenpoofs – a world-renowned, all-male, a cappella group from Yale University – teamed up with the UCT Choir for a rousing, once-off performance at St George's Cathedral in...
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'Use anger to learn and grow'
Justified 'anger' at injustice shouldn't discourage "difficult conversations", even when one felt on the receiving end of the anger. This was the view of keynote speaker, Eleanor du Plooy, of the...
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UCT's Careers Service ranks top in national survey
Employers have voted UCT's Careers Service and Careers Fair as the best in the country, in a recent South African Graduate Employers Association (SAGEA) survey. Best service: UCT's Career Service team...
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Breaking down silos in teaching and learning
That four groups won the 2014 UCT Collaborative Educational Practice Award for collaborative educational practice might testify to the ongoing drive to break through silos in teaching and learning at...
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Oni selected as a Next Einstein Forum fellow for 2015
The opportunity to engage with a captive and diverse audience interested in tackling issues of health inequity is what motivated Dr Tolullah Oni, a senior lecturer in the School of Public Health and...
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Learning the art of TV talk shows
For the past three weeks, a group of aspiring filmmakers has been hard at work learning how to create, produce, direct and host original TV productions, through UCT's outreach video training programme...
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Using statistics to dissect addiction
Dr Andre Hofmeyr, undergraduate convenor in the School of Economics, explored the economics of addiction in a dissertation primarily focused on methodological and statistical issues on the boundary...
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With SHAWCO every day is Mandela Day
For 72 years, every day has been Mandela Day for SHAWCO's community builders. UCT's biggest student organisation, the Students' Health and Welfare Centres Organisation started as a one-man initiative...
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'We are the thought leaders responsible for social upliftment'
Patrice Madurai is one of three UCT students honoured with the Queen's Young Leaders Award this year. What inspires her to keep making a positive change in the world around her? We chat to her about...
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Unlocking the mystery of how true seals disappeared from the Cape
Five million years ago, the southwestern tip of Africa was teaming with animals such as the African bear (Agriotherium), the giant wolverine (Plesiogulo), the short-neck long-horned giraffe...
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Field awarded IOC-UNESCO medal
Emeritus professor and deputy director of UCT's the Marine Research Institute (Ma-Re), Dr John Field, has been awarded the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's (IOC-UNESCO) NK Panikkar Memorial...
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College of Music to celebrate Erik Chisholm with two final concerts
There are still two Erik Chisholm commemorative lunch-hour concerts to look forward to at the South African College of Music this year. They are the final in a three-part series to commemorate the 50th...
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Scientific voyage to retrieve vital ocean data
After two years of negotiation between scientists and government ministers, the polar research vessel SA Agulhas II is heading into the Southern Ocean where a UCT oceanography team has some unfinished...
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UCT remembers Martin West (1946-2015)
Dr Adam West described his father's endurance in the face of Parkinson's disease as "by far the most impressive thing I ever saw him do". Dr Adam West described his father's career at UCT as something...
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UCT response to developments around SRC member's Facebook posting
28 July 2015 Dear colleagues and students, During the past three weeks, a conflict has erupted within UCT's Student Representative Council (SRC) and student body, triggered by a post that Ms Zizipho...
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What a less Eurocentric reading list would look like
The debate about curriculum and staff diversity is gaining momentum at some South African as well as British universities. Some have challenged the dominance of dead white men in university literary...
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