Faculty of Science

Professor Peter Dunsby, from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics was recently honoured at the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards

A 'celebrity' eagle from the Kruger National Park, that starred in a British wildlife television series, "Fierce", has been killed by subsistence hunters in Mozambique.

SEAmester - South Africa's Class Afloat which aims to introduce marine science as an applied and cross-disciplinary field to students, sets sail the polar research vessel SA Agulhas, on 5th July 2016 with 41 students selected fro

For 15 years over 10 000 free-drifting Argo robotic floats have gathered essential data on the salinity and temperatures of the world’s oceans, vital to new understandings of climate change.  Professor Isabelle Ansorge 

Research by scientists from UCT and Swansea University, has shown how canny baboons living on the edge of Cape Town are occasionally able to get around the management strategies put in place ot prevent them raiding the urban environment. 

Geoology graduate Tamzon Jacobs who isgraduating with an MSc in Chemical Engineering, tells of her journey from an impoverished community, overcoming the odds to get her matric while working in retail, to coming near the

When the Sharks lost 37-6 to the Chiefs in 2012's Super Rugby final, Lovemore Kunorozva texted one of us supervisors, Associate Professor Laura Roden, "Do you think it could be jet lag?".  She r

Buntu, Ngcebetsha, who is graduating with an MSc in Astrophysics describes how he developed an interest in astronomy and how this brought him to be graduating with an MSc in Astrophysics and continuing with a PhD.

Michael Hlabathe, who is graduating with an MSc in Astronomy, describes his journey at UCT in Astronomy.

UCT palaeobiologist Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan is involved in an international study to unravel the biology of the giant 8 million year old extinct birds- more akin to a goose than an ostrich.