Soapbox Science returns to Cape Town
Soapbox Science takes place on Saturday 25th November from 12h00 to 15h00 at the Clock Tower, V& A Waterfront. This event promotes the visibility and boosts career prospects of female and non-binary scientists.
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UCT’s Water Hub wins the Gold Eco-Logic Award
The Water Hub, directed by Dr Kevin Winter, won a gold Eco-Logic award for the research work they do in Franschhoek.
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Breakthrough in multiple electron pumping in the Coldest Place in Africa
Associate Professor Mark Blumenthal and his team from the NanoElectronics Research Centre in the Department of Physics at UCT have had a major breakthrough in their research paper published recently in the journal EPJ Quantum Tecnology
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UCT welcomes Dutch delegation for astronomy discussion
In a display of international cooperation and astronomical exploration, the UCT Department of Astronomy, hosted a delegation from the Netherlands government and shared their insights on the boundless possibilities of astronomy research.
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Second cohort of AI2050 Senior Fellows named
Prof Kelly Chibale was announced as a fellow of the Schmidt Futures AI2050 Senior Fellows who will pursue bold and interdisciplinary research in artificial intelligence (AI) to help chart the development of
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Evolution revolution: how a Cape Town museum exhibit is rewriting the story of humankind
In 2018 a group of human evolution researchers decided to do things differently and created a new human evolution exhibit that opened in September 2023 at Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town.
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Sustainable chemist wins Rising Star Africa Prize
Dr Wade Petersen, from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science, has been announced as the winner of the Royal Society’s Rising Star Africa Prize for 2023.
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Kelly Chibale wins Royal Society Africa Prize 2023
Professor Kelly Chibale, who holds the Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery and Development, and director of the Holistic Drug Discovery and Development Centre at UCT, has been awarded the Royal Society Africa Prize 2023
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Paying forward the ‘wow factor’ of stargazing
Professor Daniel Pisano, UCT’s new DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Extragalactic Multi-wavelength Astronomy, is passionate about paying forward his skills, expertise and his international contacts,to support the journeys of future stargazers.
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UCT academic honoured with Royal Meteorological Society Award
UCT's Professor Chris Reason, Department of Oceanography, has been announced as one of the international Royal Meteorological Society award winners for 2022 in the Geoscience Data Journal (GDJ) Editors’ Award division.
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Gina Ziervogel takes the helm at the African Climate Development Initiative
"The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) is in extremely capable hands,” said Professor Mark New of his successor, Associate Professor Gina Ziervogel, who recently took the helm as the director of the UCT flagship
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PhD graduand clocks vast distances on foot collecting 150 taxa, including 50 undescribed species
In gathering the botanical data for his PhD, UCT's Brian du Preez clocked up some impressive numbers scouring the Greater Cape Floristic Region’s (GCFR) remote regions: hundreds of kilometres on foot in mountains and kloofs, and by car.
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