SAICE award for urine research project
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town February 22, 2018
Caption: Dr Dyllon Randall (left), with civil engineering graduate Tinashe Chipako, winner of the 2018 South African Institution of Civil Engineering National Investigative Project Showdown. Civil engineering graduate Tinashe Chipako has won the 2018 South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) National Investigative Project (IP) Showdown for South African universities.... Read more
Blockchain hackathon winners
AchieversUniversity of Cape Town February 21, 2018
Blockchain technology isn’t just about trading cryptocurrencies – it can make everyday life better. The winners at Unlock the Block – the continent’s largest blockchain hackathon – proved this, delivering solutions that can facilitate cattle trading, improve governance in companies and more. Unlock the Block was hosted by Linum Labs and the African... Read more
Open up access to advance healthcare
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town February 13, 2018
Caption: Associate Professor Stevan Bruijns, and two undergraduate health science students, Suniti Sinha (left) and Mmapheladi Mosly Maesela (right) found that one out of six African emergency medicine publications was cost-prohibitive. Within a context categorised by an already small emergency medicine research output, one in six African emergency care... Read more
Why do brains seize?
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town February 13, 2018
Dr Joseph Raimondo has always been fascinated with the brain, and from a young age he has endeavoured to understand how it works. As one of five UCT researchers to receive a 2017 Claude Leon Merit Award – which recognises exceptional work by early career academics in the natural... Read more
To the heart of matter
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town February 9, 2018
Particle physicist Dr Sahal Yacoob is one of five UCT researchers who received Claude Leon Merit Awards in 2017. These awards recognise meritorious scholarly work by early-career academics in natural sciences, medical sciences (excluding clinical research) and engineering. The award will support his research on the Higgs boson, the... Read more
Open up access to advance healthcare
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town February 8, 2018
Caption: Associate Professor Stevan Bruijns, and two undergraduate health science students, Suniti Sinha (left) and Mmapheladi Mosly Maesela (right) found that one out of six African emergency medicine publications was cost-prohibitive. Within a context categorised by an already small emergency medicine research output, one in six African emergency care... Read more
Caption: Future entrepreneurs at work at the MTN Solution Space at the Graduate School of Business. Entrepreneurs seeking to launch digital solutions on the African continent are invited to apply for the Venture Incubation Programme, a partnership between MTN and the Graduate School of Business’s Solution Space. The programme... Read more
UCT’s Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship is introducing a new course at the end of February that aims to build strong networks of support around the education of children and young people in South African schools in order to enable positive change. “These networks should comprise a... Read more
Alumni shine at Maynardville
AchieversMust-ReadUniversity of Cape Town February 1, 2018
Witness Shakespeare’s comedic battle of the sexes as never before. Director and UCT alumnus Tara Notcutt presents this historic run of The Taming of the Shrew with an all-women cast and creative team at the Maynardville Open-Air Theatre from 7 February to 3 March. Matters of gender, marriage and... Read more
Accreditation cements GSB’s reputation
AchieversUniversity of Cape Town January 25, 2018
The UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) has cemented its international reputation as one of the top business schools in the world by again being awarded the eminent AMBA accreditation from the Association of MBAs, which will be effective for a further five years. “The AMBA accreditation is vital... Read more
