Faculty of Science

Stephen Hawking was “a great spirit and a wonderful mind”, said senior scholar and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems George Ellis in his recent tribute to the renowned theoretical physicist, a collaborator

PhD candidate Jannes Landschoff is using 3D digital avatars to study biological specimens.  

Professor Kelly Chibale, Department of Chemistry and Director of of UCT's Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), was recently named as one of Fortune's Top 50 World's Greatest Leaders.  The Science Faculty c

Professor Isabelle Ansorge and Dr Sarah Fawcett, from the Department of Oceanography, together with some of their students will be embarking on an unprecedented international scientific expedition to the Weddell Sea in

Congratulations to the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences at UCT: The recently announced QS rankings placed Geography at UCT in 49th position worldwide.  Archaeology is just behind, being placed in the range 51-1

Table Mountain Group Aquifer drill sites threaten rare plant species protected by international treaties and the City should exercise due caution when abstracting water, says biologist Associate Professor Adam West from the Department

Professor Mark New, Director of the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) in the Faculty of Science at UCT, has just been named as the 2018 recipient of the Piers Sellers Prize for a world leading contribution to solution f

Lead bullet fragments in carcasses left by hunters are poisoning endangered African vultures, a new study, recently published in Science of the Total Environment, has found. Dr Arjun Amar, from the FitzPatrick Institute of Afr

Professor Maano Ramutsindela, a Human geographer from the Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, recently delivered his inaugural lecture on transfrontier/ peace parks, entitled, "Remapping Africa through peace pa

Dr Jayne Wilkins, from the Department of Archaeology at UCT led the excavations and was part of a team of scientists, including UCT undergraduate and postgraduate students, who collected sediment samples that yielded cryptotephra