Faculty of Science

Scientists from the University of Cape Town, the South African Astronomical Observatory and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences are delivering a series of lectures this week (19 - 23 January) on what the SKA will mean for

The Science Faculty said goodbye to 10 staff members who are retiring at the end of 2014.

The Distinguished Teacher Award is the highest accolade given to lecturing staff in acknowledgement of the value UCT attaches to teaching and learning.  Two Science Faculty staff received the award for 2014, namely Associate Professor James G

Lauren Schroeder from the Department of Archaeology has just had her first paper published in PLOS One with her supervisor Associate Professor Rebecca Ackermann

Wunmi Isafiade, a PhD student from the Department of Computer Science at UCT has just been announced as a winner of the 2014 L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa Fellowship.

Professor Guy Midgley, who presented this year's Distinguished Alumni lecture said that human beings are changing the planet so much that we may need to recognise a new geological era.  He explained that we have lived in

A tiny shrimp with banded, stalked eyes, and gaudy red 'warning' colouring, is the latest of several new marine species to be found by UCT researchers in the extensively sampled waters of False Bay.

The Science Faculty notes the passing of one of its distinguished alumni, Emeritus Professor Alistair Stephen, Life Fellow of UCT, who died recently at the age of 92 at his home in Fish Hoek on the Cape Peninsula. He is survived by his wife Helen, his

UCT will compete among the world's top institutions in drug discovery, one of the university's research signature themes, thanks to a powerful new 600MHz nuclear magne

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