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Top international award for cardiovascular researcher
International honour: Prof Karen Sliwa-Hahnle, director of UCT's Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research, has been awarded the Paul Morawitz Award for her research into cardiovascular prevention,...
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Stem cells: Handle with care
"Should anyone be tested for a condition that is fatal and devastating to both the patient and the patient's family?" - Prof Jacquie Greenberg at her inaugural lecture on 17 April. While stem cell...
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'Ultimate' botanist Skelton flies SA flag high
Out there: PhD student and botanist Rob Skelton downloading sap flow and weather data from a station at Jonaskop in the Riviersonderend Mountains. Sap flow sensors (which measure the flow of water...
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International leader at the helm of Energy Research Centre
Energy future: Prof Harald Winkler, new director of the Energy Research Centre in the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment. Professor Harald Winkler's summary of his vision for UCT's...
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Compulsory laptops: pilot project investigates usefulness
Geared for learning: Engineering student Priyashnie Govender was the first recipient of a laptop through ICTS's Laptop Pilot Project. Laptops became compulsory this year for four courses at UCT - in...
View ArticleCalling content collection owners!
Do you, or does your Department, own a 'content collection'? For the uninitiated, a content collection is any collection of useful, archival, or scholarly content in physical or digital format - such...
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Pioneering development programme underpins commerce students' success
Ensuring academic success: Commerce Education Development Unit (EDU) Programme Co-ordinator, Daniel Munene and Commerce EDU director, Associate Prof June Pym. An educationally challenged background...
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News in pictures
A delegation from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen visited UCT earlier this month to discuss intensifying existing collaboration between South Africa and Germany, in this the 2012/2013...
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What does Africa month mean to the UCT community?
Giving expression to UCT's Afropolitan vision during Africa Month: Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo. On the eve of Africa Month in May, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Thandabantu...
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Grand Prix for Mizrahi
Accolade: IIDMM director Prof Valerie Mizrahi has been awarded the coveted Grand Prix Christophe Mérieux Prize by the Institute de France in Paris, for her TB research and her ability to mentor young...
View ArticleMental health as part of primary health care
Mental health care should be urgently integrated into primary health care to address Africa's social, economic and health priorities. This was the message delivered to members of the Africa-led mental...
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Ballim feasts on science with Nobel laureates in Japan
Crystal clear: Dr Reyna Ballim, in the laboratory where she works to identify the crystal structure of a cancer-driving protein. It's rare that a researcher gets to ask questions directly of a Nobel...
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Fear and anxiety in the social brain
Ground-breaking neuroscience: Prof Jack van Honk (left) and Dr Barak Morgan's work reveals new facts about the role of the amygdala, or the 'social brain', particularly in fear and anxiety disorders....
View ArticleGrant fosters global student networks
UCT's links with its counterparts across the seas have been given a major fillip by the first-of-its kind travel grant, sponsored by the European Union (EU). The European and South African Research...
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In the heart of the country
Builder Bob: Postgraduate student Salma Kagee slaps plaster on bricks. Kagee was one of the Faculty of Commerce's volunteers helping to extend the Philippi Children's Centre. It's linked to the R150...
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National Orders for UCT stalwarts
Highest honours in the land: Prof George Ekama, who was awarded the Order of Mapungubwe, in silver, by President Jacob Zuma on 27 April; and Dr Neville Alexander, who was posthumously awarded the...
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UCT shines in World University Rankings by Subject
UCT has been ranked among the top 100 universities in the world for eight of its subject areas, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject released on 8 May. UCT was ranked at 32 for its...
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Black middle class doubles in eight years
"South Africa's black middle class continues to expand rapidly, and is more influential and powerful than ever before," said the Unilever Institute's director, Professor John Simpson, at the Cape Town...
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News in pictures
Though AIDS is now a disease one can live with thanks to medical advances, it's still imperative to be tested for HIV, not just once but regularly, Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price said at the annual...
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Africa's first butterfly atlas takes wing
On the wing: Dr Silvia Mecenero, project co-ordinator of Africa's first Butterfly Atlas. Launched under the umbrella of the Southern African Butterfly Conservation Assessment, the atlas is a...
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