Faculty of Science

At the recent NRF 

Five prominent female researchers at the University of Cape Town have been awarded SA Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chairs in their respective fields, as part o

Dr Gina Ziervogel, from the Department of Environmental & Geographical Science at UCT, has just won the Distinguished Young Women Researcher Award at the recent Department of Science and Technology's 2015 Women in Science Awards (WISA) 2015.

At the recent Department of Science and Technology's recent 2015 Women in Science Awards, Muneebah Adams, from the Department of Chemistry, won a Fellowship Award.

Dr Björn Backeberg, Oceanographic researcher and co-

Paleoanthropolgist Lauren Schroder, a PhD student in the Department of Archaeology at UCT was recently selected as one of the Mail & Guardian's 200 young South African's for 2015.

At the Malaria Research-Investing in Elimination meeting organised by the Medical Research Council in Durban this week, it emerged that mathematical modelling could be used in the fight against malaria in South Africa.

'Nothing in Jurassic World is natural!' proclaims Henry Wu, the chief scientist in Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World. And to complicate matters even further, he explains how even the DNA used to 'create' the animals is not a

Jess Dawson, a PhD student from the Department of Biological Sciences is studying the impact of hippo poo on the St Lucia food web and among other skills, she has had to learn how to catch a crocodile and how not to unsettle a hippopotamus.

After two years of negotiation between scientists and government ministers, the polar research vessel SA Agulhas II is heading into the Southern Ocean where a University of Cape Town oceanography team has some unfinished business. Lead by oce