Faculty of Science

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.  

Associate Professor Shadreck Chirikure, from the Department of Archaeology shows how modern scientific techniques are critical for studying and uncovering the science of the past.

Recently returned from a trip to Antarctica, Associate Professor Marcello Vichi, who was with 70 other scientists, has come back with worrying information on what is happening to the sea ice in Antarctica.

The Faculty of Science at UCT will be celebrating National Science Week (NSW) with the 10th annual Science Postgraduate Symposium and by hosting the Eskom Cape Town Expo for Young Scientists.