The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) programme is named in honour of Dr Benjamin Mays, the noted African American educator, statesman and mentor to Dr Martin Luther King. It is funded by the AW Mellon Foundation and aims to create a legacy of qualified and gifted scholars who themselves will one... Read more
It’s not often that PhD research makes world news. Doctoral candidate Juliano Ramanantsoa’s discovery of a new current off south-west Madagascar has rounded off his doctoral research – and brought him and his co-authors international commendation. The Southwest Madagascar Coastal Current (SMACC) was described in Ramanantsoa’s recent journal article... Read more
Professor Jock McCulloch, who died from asbestos cancer (mesothelioma) on 18 January this year, not only distinguished himself with his research on the impact and machinations of the asbestos industry, but was also “a great friend of the people and especially the workers of South Africa”. As such, it is... Read more
UCT’s Medical Devices Lab is fostering an ecosystem of innovation. And the fruitfulness of its teaching practices, founded on ideas of Frugal Biodesign, is being proven in the form of biomedical engineering graduates Gokul Nair and Giancarlo Beukes. Both alumni of the medical device design course, they have teamed... Read more
Opportunity knocks for UCT student’s scholarship to Yale
AchieversArchivesMust-ReadUniversity of Cape Town May 22, 2018
Opportunity doesn’t always come a-knocking, sometimes you have to set out in search of it yourself. This is what Elkanah Babatunde, who is currently pursuing his PhD in the UCT Faculty of Law, recently learned when an application completed in the nick of time landed him the illustrious Yale... Read more
Science is an unusual bar-top topic but not at the UCT Club this week where science discussions eclipsed even the Sundowns–Barcelona game. For three nights the club played host to Pint of Science, a recent drive to bring the weighty matters of chemistry, astrophysics, maths, geology, botany and the... Read more
UCT’s Careers Service (CS) started out in 1968 in a small wooden building next to the geology department, where the Leslie Social Science building is found today. A memo to the university community stated that the first careers office would be established on campus and the head, Niels Lindhard,... Read more
Woolard heads panel to explore zero-rated goods
ArchivesLatest newsUniversity of Cape Town May 9, 2018
Professor Ingrid Woolard, a research associate in the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), has been appointed by the Minister of Finance and the head of the Davis Tax Committee to chair an independent panel that will explore the expansion of VAT-free products for South Africans. For... Read more
Easy Squeezy: an asthma device for children and the aged
ArchivesLatest newsUniversity of Cape Town May 8, 2018
A collaboration between biomedical engineers and a clinician at UCT has led to the design of an assistant device for metered-dose asthma inhalers that will improve ease of use for children and the elderly. Aptly named the Easy Squeezy, the device dramatically reduces the force required to activate the... Read more
Associate Professor Mqhele Dlodlo has dedicated his life to academic scholarship. Now, as he takes up the role of vice-chancellor at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, he hopes to share his love of learning with a new generation of students. Dlodlo’s career took... Read more
