Faculty of Science

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The African Penguin is in serious trouble. Its population has fallen by more than 95% over the last century and, despite ongoing conservation efforts, its numbers cont

On 11 September 2019, Emeritus Professor Doug Butterworth will be formally honoured by the Emperor of Japan with t

Professor Rebecca Ackermann, Department of Archaeology at UCT, has just been named as one of the Mail & Guardian's Women Changing South Africa.  

The recent three-day Human Evolution Research Institute’s (HERI) field camp on the West Coast quietly marked two milestones in Women’s Month at the University of Cape Town (UCT).  

Emeritus Professor Luigi Nassimbeni, from the Department of Chemistry. is the first recipient  of the International Alajos Kalman Prize, which he was recently awarded at a special Ceremony of the European Crystallographic A

The ingenuity, brilliance and out-of-the-box project ideas pioneered by hundreds of young science enthusiasts from schools around the Mother City were showcased during the annual Cape Town Eskom Expo for Young Scientists at the University of Cape Town

A University of Cape Town (UCT) professor and two postgraduate researchers were among the winners at this year’s South African Women in Science Awards (SAWiSA). Dr Julia Healy, from the Department of Astronomy was awarded one of

Three researchers from UCT recently hosted an IdeasLab on innovative research into infectious diseases at the World Economic Forum’s 13th Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, China.  Dr Sheetal Silal (

Professor Rebecca Rogers Ackermann, Department of Archaeology, delivered her inaugural lecture on 14 August. Her research focuses on evolutionary process, and specifically how gene flow, drift and select