Safety first: VC Award for big picture thinker
Chemical safety officer in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Monique Muller, won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Service Excellence.
Ocean’s potential to bolster food security
With better management and innovation, the ocean could provide over six times more food than it does today and more than two-thirds of the animal protein needed to feed the global population of the future. This is according to a new paper by an interna
Students head to national computing competition final
After an outstanding performance during the first round of the Centre for High Performance Computing’s (CHPC) Student Cluster Competition in July, two student-led teams from the University of Cape Town (UCT) are on their way to the nati
Co-creating a locally relevant web
Who is the internet designed for? Is it locally relevant? Who are the people being left behind in the fourth industrial revolution? These are a few of the questions that have emerged from Dr Melissa Densmore’s research into bandw
The highest energy light from a gamma-ray burst detected
While it has been decades since the discovery of the first gamma-ray bursts (GRB), some of their fundamental traits remain a puzzle. Astronomers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), including Professor Patrick Woudt and MSc stu
Father and son team produce ‘Explore the shore’ free educational video series
University of Cape Town (UCT) marine biologist Emeritus Professor Charles Griffiths and his filmmaker son, Matthew, have drawn on their scientific and artistic talents to produce a series of short educational videos on
UCT staff and students join ‘successful’ Liesbeek River clean-up
A massive clean-up operation along the Liesbeek River attracted dozens of eager University of Cape Town (UCT) staff and students, and local residents who hauled out their gardening tools and sacrificed a sunny Saturday morning to do their bit for the e
Spreading Like Wildfire
Wildfires are becoming more intense and more frequent, ravaging communities and ecosystems in their path. Recent years have seen record-breaking wildfire seasons across the world from Australia to the Arctic to North and South America. With global temp
Capacity building and skills development for health innovation in Africa
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Holistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre, the H3D Foundation and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) hosted a showcase at the 2022 EU
Fynbos puts the squeeze on trees via the thinnest roots known
Fynbos and Afrotemperate Forest biomes live side by side in the Western Cape, sharing an underlying geology and climatic patterns. Each survives in very different soil, produced by the vegetation. However, the fynbos biome relies on a unique adaptation