Newly-discovered TB blood signal provides early warning for at-risk patients
Latest newsResearchUniversity of Cape Town January 24, 2018
Caption: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that leads to the Tuberculosis disease. Photo Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuberculosis can be detected in people infected with HIV via a unique blood signal before symptoms appear, according to a new study. The study, which is the result of a... Read more
Injectable birth control may raise HIV infection risk
Latest newsUniversity of Cape Town January 22, 2018
The intramuscular injectable contraceptive depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, or DMPA, may raise the risk for HIV infection by 40% in women, according to research published recently in Endocrine Reviews. Research indicates alternative contraception methods may help protect women. Professor Janet P. Hapgood, lead author of the review from the University of Cape... Read more
Finding big data solutions through teaching and learning
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town January 12, 2018
As a partner in the African Research Cloud (ARC) and the Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy (IDIA), UCT is home to some powerful computing facilities. These facilities, which allow researchers to work with enormous sets of data, are helping us to prepare for the era of big-data science. But... Read more
Preparing for the SKA data
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town January 8, 2018
The world is wholly underprepared for the big-data challenges presented by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – the largest radio telescope ever built. This is because we have never seen data volumes on this scale before. By the time the SKA comes online in 2020, the scientific community needs... Read more
At the age of nine, he told Archbishop Desmond Tutu that he planned to study law. Now Dr Alistair Price has been awarded a prestigious and extremely rare National Research Foundation P rating for his ongoing research on intersections between private law, public law and human rights. This rating... Read more
Caption: Peter Häussler (Department of Social Development) is one of 112 PhD candidates who will graduate in the Memorial Hall on 20 December. Graduand Peter Häussler’s professional journey in Africa and his PhD thesis on Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere provide insights on leadership in Africa – and lessons... Read more
Negotiating learning and identity
Latest newsUniversity of Cape Town January 2, 2018
The lived experiences of working-class and rural black students are the subject of a new book edited by Dr Bongi Bangeni and Associate Professor Rochelle Kapp, titled Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education: Access, Persistence and Retention (Bloomsbury). “My teachers told me that I was not going to... Read more
Boosting the breeding success of hornbills
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town December 27, 2017
Fear of heights, floods and being mistaken for a poacher punctuated Kate Carstens’ PhD fieldwork on the Southern Ground Hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri) in the Limpopo Valley and Lowveld regions. Carstens assessed the role of artificial nest boxes to boost breeding success, a tool for conserving these endangered birds. Carstens... Read more
Zolani Buba: It takes grit
AchieversMust-ReadUniversity of Cape Town December 22, 2017
Zolani Buba didn’t always know that he wanted to study law. Now, though, as a PhD graduate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Dr Buba and the law seem like long-time friends. Zolani earned his doctoral degree for a thesis that evaluates the... Read more
Creativity key to ensuring energy supply
AchieversUniversity of Cape Town December 20, 2017
Associate Professor Adeniyi Isafiade has made strides in ensuring that the networks bringing us crucial resources, such as energy and water, are as efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly as possible. But it was for his attempts at integrating renewable energy into these networks that Isafiade was honoured with a... Read more
