Faculty of Science

Seven young University of Cape Town (UCT) scholars are among the inaugural 2019 cohort of Future Leaders – African Independent Research (FLAIR) Fellows. FLAIR Fellowships are awarded to talented African early-career researchers who have the poten

Emeritus Professor Michael William Feast died peacefully early on the morning of 1 April 2019, aged 92. He is survived by his wife Connie, three children and eight grand-children.

The thousands of seawater, ice and plankton samples brought home by the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) 2019 Weddell Sea Expedition (WSE) research group may take up to five years to analyse and interpret. But the data yielded by this st

The Department of Science & Technology’s (DST) National Intellectual Property Office (NIPMO) has recognised Professor Edward Rybicki as the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) most prolific inventor.

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” That’s the view expressed by Craig Kesson, chief resilience officer at the City of Cape Town, in the wake of the recent water crisis and a far-too-close-for-comfort brush with Day Zero – th

Two young UCT scientists are among the eight UCT-based authors of the next major assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since attending the inaugural author meeting in China in June 2018, Dr Rondrotiana Bar

Dr Jackie King, winner of the 2019 Stockholm Water Prize, will receive her award from HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at a royal ceremony in August. She is a UCT alumnus and retired academic

Dr Megan Murgatroyd and Associate Professor Arjun Amar, from UCT's FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, were commissioned by the UK Government to lead an international study that found

The rag in Professor Kelly Chibale’s rags-to-riches story is the lit one he used to put into a paraffin-filled tub so that he could study at night. Brought up amid violence and squalor in the Zambian copper belt

During National Water Week this week, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) African Centre for Cities (ACC) released a new paper which warns that the Cape Town drought has powerful climate-change adaptation lessons for other South African muni