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Lockdown 2020: Birds bask on barren Muizenberg beach

As humans were ordered to stay indoors to curtail the spread of COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic in 2020, it appears that birds came out in their numbers to get their dose of vitamin sea. A research paper titled “

UCT Science Faculty Dean's Dialogue How to build and maintain research excellence

Three of UCT's world leading researchers will address the topic of how to build and maintain research excellence.

Cape Town's water: heading in the wrong direction

Capetonians need heed the warning of Day Zero in 2018 if another water crisis is to be averted.

Biological Sciences

Long in the tooth: Ancient proteins illuminate deep-time species evolution

A public seminar titled “Reconstructing Deep-Time Evolution Using Palaeoproteomics” was held at UCT and hosted by the university’s Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI).

Embracing humanity in leadership: Lessons from an outgoing dean

Four years after taking up a position as the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor Maano Ramutsindela is stepping down to return to his first love: research and teaching.

Shaping an African future with human-centred Artificial Intelligence – the passion of newly appointed NRF SARChI Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Associate Professor Deshen Moodley

Associate Professor Deshen Moodley was recently awarded the DSI/NRF-UCT SARChI Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems, in the Artificial Intelligence Research Unit, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town.

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