The founder and director of Africa’s first integrated drug discovery centre, UCTʼs Professor Kelly Chibale, has been named as one of Fortune magazine’s 50 World’s Greatest Leaders for 2018 Chibale, whose Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) pioneers world-class drug discovery in Africa, has also become known... Read more
Commemorating World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, UCT not only joins the global community to acknowledge the key roles women play in research, innovation and creativity, but also takes the opportunity to examine gender bias within the IP system. World IP Day takes place annually on 26 April to promote awareness... Read more
The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) has taken a step up, graduating from a Vice-Chancellor’s Strategic Initiative to an established UCT institute at the end of 2017. The new institute was formally launched at an event on 16 April. The celebration of the ACDI’s new status was also an opportunity to... Read more
With the world of work in near constant flux, and a country still plagued by high rates of unemployment, UCT graduates are increasingly entrepreneurial. This was one of the major findings of the 2018 graduate exit survey. The survey, administered by Careers Service, in the Centre for Higher Education... Read more
First-in-Africa lab harnesses talents of millennials
ArchivesLatest newsUniversity of Cape Town April 24, 2018
UCT and SAP have joined forces to build digitally educated “next generation talent” through the SAP Next-Gen Lab, the first of its kind in Africa. It will be hosted by UCT’s School of Information Technology, a joint initiative between the Department of Information Systems in the Faculty of Commerce... Read more
Maths boot camp
ArchivesLatest newsUniversity of Cape Town April 23, 2018
On 13 and 14 April the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER) and the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCT’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine (SPHFM) hosted a maths boot camp for 40 grade 11 learners from Gugulethu’s Fezeka High School. During the camp, learners were exposed... Read more
Leliefontein orchestra, 2013. Photo Sophia Klaase. Hanging on a Wire: Photographs by Sophia Klaase, a volume containing photographs by the late Sophia Klaase, and edited by Dr Rick Rohde and UCT’s Dr Siona O’Connell, has won the 2018 Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Award for Best Non-Fiction Edited Volume. The HSS awards were launched... Read more
Konica Minolta International University Contest winners
AchieversArchivesUniversity of Cape Town April 9, 2018
Richard Berg, manager of Corporate Business Solutions at KMSA Cape Town, with the UCT team that took national honours in the Konica Minolta International University Contest. The Konica Minolta International University Contest (IUC), organised and sponsored by Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe, gives students from across the globe a... Read more
Graduation speakers call for activism
ArchivesLatest newsMust-ReadUniversity of Cape Town April 9, 2018
If there were a theme for day three of UCT’s seven-day graduation season, it would be the call for graduands to become active citizens and surpass the achievements of their parents. During the morning ceremony, Professor Mark New, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Climate Change and director of the African Climate... Read more
Michael Hammond has photographed thousands of graduates. But during the four years he spent capturing these moments of celebration as UCT’s photographer, he never imagined climbing the Memorial Hall steps himself. However, after a decade of working as a photojournalist, Hammond decided that the opportunity to complete his master’s... Read more
