Faculty of Science

Zander Venter,an agroecology doctoral student from the Department of Biological Sciences at UCT has earned himself second place in the 2016/2017 NRF Young Science Communicator competition with his video, "Our footprint from space&

An exciting new antimalarial drug candidate is active across the entire parasite life cycle and holds great promise as a single-dose cure.  Professor Kelly Chibale from the UCT Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) was

Developing smart crops in Africa is critical in an era of climate change with extended periods of drought, says UCT plant molecular physiologist Professor Jill Farrant from the Department of Molecular & C

Increasingly prolonged periods of severe hot and dry weather during the first summer after wild fires is inhibiting vegetation recovery and causing loss of plant diversity in the fynbos, according to a new study published in the 

Dr Sheetal Silal, senior lecturer and researcher in the Department of Statistical Sciences in the Faculty of Science at UCT was first runner up in the Famelab national heat.

Katherine Bunney, who recently completed her MSc with Professor William Bond, in the Department of Biological Sciences at UCT, have just published a paper together in Biotropica, an international journal of tropical biology and conservation.

Dr Sheetal Silal a senior lecturer in the Department of Statistical Sciences at UCT is one of 10 finalists who has made it through to the finals of the science communication competition, FameLab SA,where she will represent UCT and

Professor Mark New, holder of the recently launched AXA Chair in African Climate Risk, warns that climate change is loading the dice in favour of more extreme weather.

Faculty of Science ecologist and MSc student Gabriella Leighton has won a British Ecological Society (BES) Young Investigator prize.  The prize recognises the best research papers published in BES journals by early career scientis

Dr Miguel Lacerda, from the Department of Statistical Sciences, approaches complex content creatively, which is one of the reasons he is a 2016 Distinguished Teacher Award winner.