Faculty of Science

UCT Department of Archaeology's Associate Professor Rebecca Ackermann and her PhD student Lauren Schroeder are members of the team who recently described the new human ancestor Homo naledi.

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An international team of scientists, including Dr Robyn Pickering, from UCT's Department of Geological Sciences, have dated a species of fossil monkey found across the Caribbean, to just over 1 million years old

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-