Faculty of Science

UCT is the first university in Africa to offer a specialist degree designed to equip students with skill and knowledge to embrace the technological revolution in the financial services sector.  The new interdisciplinary degree is convened tog

According to Dr Kevin Winter, from the Department of Environmental & Geographical Science and the UCT Future Water Institute and Water Task Team, UCT’s campuses are largely underprepared for managing the ongoing drought.

Palaeobiologists  Dr Delphine Angst and Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, from the Department of Biological Sciences at UCT, in collaboration with scientists from the National History Museum (NHM) in London, UK, have for the

Three new shrimp species with interesting habitat preferences have been discovered along a tiny stretch of coastline along Miller’s Point in False Bay.  The finding also uncovered the first known symbiotic relationship between a sh

The UCT Sports Centre was abuzz with junior scientists taking part in the annual Cape Town Expo for Young Scientists.  Science Faculty staff and postgraduate students were judges at the event and gave students feedback on their projects...

UCT marine scientists professors Peter Ryan and John Bolton and Dr Sarah Fawcett were recently honoured at the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research's (SANCOR) triennial awards at

The art and science of measurement is at the heart of a new research unit recently established in the Department of Physics at UCT:  MeASURe:  the Metrological and Applied Sciences University Research Unit.

SEAmester : the brainchild of Associate Professor Isabelle Ansorge, from the Department of Oceanography - where a floating classroom, combines technology with on-board lectures, has just returned from a voyage where&nbsp

A second successful winter voyage aboard the ice-breaking research vessel SA Agulhas II into the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) has been undertaken by members of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Sea Ice Research Team and headed u

Ramona Hurdayal, from the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology defines herself in multiple roles ranging from daughter, sister, lecturer, supervisor, mentor to researcher.