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Good heads and hearts enhance education
Heads and hearts: David Johnston, Governor-General of Canada, at a recent UCT panel discussion on international education and science collaboration. Canadian scientists were the perfect partners for...
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Of dark energy, matter and cosmological parameters
Finding the Holy Grail: Obinna Umeh's PhD thesis, The influence of structure formation on the evolution of the Universe, was described by an examiner from Oxford as "a remarkable piece of work and one...
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SKA SA fellow is lead author of first scientific paper from KAT-7 results
First paper: Dr Richard Armstrong (right) and Assoc Prof Patrick Woudt. Armstrong is the first author of a scientific paper based on observations performed with South Africa's new KAT-7 radio...
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UCT finalists in the NSTF-BHP Billiton awards
Seven UCT scholars from six research units are finalists in the prestigious 2012/13 National Science and Technology Forum-BHP Billiton awards. This year, the NSTF celebrates its 15th awards, which...
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New recognition for obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
This week saw the release of the American Psychiatric Association's 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The DSM is used throughout the world and this is the...
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Bond elected to National Academy of Sciences
International honour: Prof William Bond William Bond, the Harry Bolus Professor of Botany in the Department of Biological Sciences, has been elected as a foreign associate of the United States'...
View ArticleA little help from friends
Master's graduands Teresa Perez and Laura Winterton will graduate this week with distinctions for their dissertations, both rooted in community needs through groups that approached the UCT Knowledge...
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Monday Paper to don a graduation gown of its own
Tanya Farber, the new head of Newsroom and Publications While campus is abuzz with graduation glory at the moment, the Monday Paper will soon be experiencing a 'graduation' of its own. As usual the...
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News in pictures
A high-level delegation from the national Ministry of Science and Technology, headed by the Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom (left), visited International Centre for Genetic...
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Flurry of red gowns at June graduation
South African music icons Caiphus Semenya and Letta Mbulu to receive honorary doctorates Limelight: UCT will confer honorary doctoral degrees on Caiphus Semenya and Letta Mbulu, honouring their...
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Fast, Faster , Fastest
'Don't take the city out of the food security question' Horse power: When Dr Tertius Kohn first saw a horse on a treadmill in Uppsala, Sweden, his mind opened up to the possibility of muscle research...
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Hungry cities
'Don't take the city out of the food security question' A man directs a herd of cattle along a dirt road in Nyanga Township. Nyanga, Cape Town, Western Cape, 1996. The battle for access to food is...
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The long fingers of inequality
Land issues in SA a hundred years on Farming in Merebank, a suburb of Durban KwaZulu-Natal, circa 1980s. Rural South Africans are still among the most oppressed in South Africa, with little hope of...
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Students and ex-gangsters talk business and smash stereotypes
Pioneering conference explores urban youth language in Africa Business connection: Athlone resident Gary Saaiman hopes his contact with students from the UCT-LSE July School will result in a...
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Tsotsitaal on the table
Pioneering conference explores urban youth language in Africa Performing toughness online: Frieda Coetzee of UCT argued that adolescent Capetonian users of the instant messaging platform MXit -...
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Managing malaria
Africa's lead in malaria fight internationally acknowledged Medicine makers: Dr Kelly Chibale and his team (Dr Diego Gonzalez Cabrera, Dr Tanya Paquet, Dr Ze Han, Dr Aloysius Nchinda and Dr Leslie...
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UCT scholars bag three Humboldt Awards Three UCT scholars were honoured by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation last month in Berlin, Germany. Dr Heather Marco received the Humboldt Alumni Award,...
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The race debate
International expert highlights merits of affirmative action Where to from here? Dr Earl Lewis from the USA says it is not enough to say that 'demography' will take care of it all. Was desegregation of...
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News in pictures
Khayelethu Anthony (left) and Dame Janet Suzman (right) share a moment in Lara Foot's award-winning play Solomon and Marion, which recently ran at the Baxter Theatre before heading off to the Edinburgh...
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Obama now, Kennedy then
Obama waves to the crowd at Jameson Hall on a chilly Sunday afternoon last month. 2013 When US President Barack Obama took the podium at UCT last month, he was walking in the decades-old footsteps of...
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