Emeritus Professor Mike Meadows has been elected as a fellow of the International Science Council. The ISC Fellowship recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions to the promotion of science as a global public good.

Professor Kelly Chibale, UCT's Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery and Development, has made history: he is the first editor-in-chief from Africa of an American Chemical Society (ACS) publication.

A recent study published in Integrative Zoology demonstrated a high incidence of abnormal beak (rostrum) conditions in South African humpback dolphins, highlighting a previously unreported threat to this endangered population.

Professor Jill Farrant, the world’s leading expert on resurrection plants and University of Cape Town (UCT) A-rated researcher, has been named as a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s coveted Georg Forster Research Award.

As part of the Nobel in Africa symposia series, UCT's Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (MAM) hosted Professor Viatcheslav Mukhanov for a public lecture on his work in cosmology and theory of the quantum universe.

A cancer drug has shown the potential to protect from, cure and prevent transmission of malaria. The breakthrough finding by the UCT researchers, offers new hope against a disease that kills over half a million people annually.

Every year at this time, the Physics community waits in anticipation of the announcement of who has won the most famous prize in Physics - the Nobel prize. The Nobel in Africa ties into this excitement...

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has received a major funding boost from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a three-year capacity-building programme for malaria modelling in sub-Saharan Africa.

After suffering devastating losses in the fire that swept across UCT's upper campus last year, the Department of Biological Sciences has received a donation of €1 million from the Hasso Plattner Foundation to assist with recovery efforts.

Geomagnetic currents fundi and UCT National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme (NASSP) graduate Dr Michael Heyns has been announced as one of the esteemed 2022 Schmidt Science Fellows by philanthropists Eric Schmidt