November 05
Africa: People Need to Play
Professor Mark Solms of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Neuroscience Institute delivered a lecture about the importance of play to an auditorium of UCT alumni on 31 October.… Read more »
August 08
Africa: TB Diagnosis and Drug Resistance Testing Can Be Reduced to Just 23 Hours
From 15 days to just 23 hours - that's the median turnaround time for full tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis that includes resistance testing to the most important TB drugs, according to… Read more »
July 08
Africa: Cross-Sectional Study Spotlights Unnerving Findings On Phantom Limb Pain
A whopping seven out of 10 patients who had undergone lower leg amputations in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape experience phantom limb pain - a painful sensation felt in the… Read more »
May 09
Africa: UCT Signs Historic MOU With CAF Focused On Training African Football Executives
The University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Wednesday, 8 May 2024 in… Read more »
May 14
Africa: Perinatal Depression - Why It's in the Spotlight
May marks Maternal Mental Health Month, with the aim to raise awareness around the fact that many women struggle with perinatal mental health challenges, and to share resources for… Read more »
May 02
Africa: 'The Climate Crisis Is a Public Health Crisis'
On 23 April 2024, as part of a series of events to mark Green Week, the Green Campus Initiative (GCI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) participated in a Climate Change and… Read more »
April 22
Africa: Using AI to Tailor Drugs for Africa
Therapeutic drugs have long been ill suited to African patients' needs. Professor Kelly Chibale, the director of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Holistic Drug Discovery and… Read more »
April 04
Africa: 'Become Activists for Science'
"What does the world need? The world needs us to be different kinds of scientists. We need to be activists for science, and we need to be scientific activists. We need to show that… Read more »
March 05
Africa: Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee Delivers Open Lecture
The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) invite students and staff to… Read more »
March 01
Africa: Adolescent Nephrology Clinic Plugs 'Critical Gap' Between Paediatric and Adult Care
For more than two decades, a clinic dedicated to caring for adolescents and young adults with advanced kidney disease has made its mark - thriving in the heart of Groote Schuur… Read more »
August 23, 2023
Africa: Women's Month - Shirley Kandabu, African Adventurer, Leader, Social Entrepreneur
It was just a bicycle, something many children grow up with. But for Ugandan Shirley Kandabu, those wheels represented empowerment in a country where in some cultures it was… Read more »
August 17, 2023
Africa: Women's Month - UK Creates 'Hostile Environment' for African Sexual and Gender Diverse Asylum Claimants
Increasingly people are fleeing their countries of birth to seek refuge elsewhere in the world. And the reasons are plentiful - civil war, political instability, poverty due to… Read more »
August 01, 2023
Africa: Setting Up an Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence
In May 2023, the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) - hosted by the University of Cape Town (UCT) on behalf of the African Research Universities Alliance… Read more »
July 20, 2023
Africa: Global Surgery Strategies, Systems Crucial to Ensuring Timely, Safe Surgery - Especially for Women
The first rural hospital patient who died on Professor Salome Maswime's watch precipitated a crisis most young doctors in community service experience. Was it her? Did she lack… Read more »
June 23, 2023
Africa: All Africa House Ready to Welcome Guests Again
The University of Cape Town's (UCT) hospitality division has revamped and relaunched its All Africa House accommodation offering, and the hope is that it continues to attract… Read more »
April 28, 2023
Africa: Frontiers Planet Prize for Work on Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change #AfricaClimateHope
The director of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), Mark New, along with researchers Petra Holden, Piotr Wolski, Romaric C… Read more »
January 18, 2023
Africa: Rhodes Scholar-Elect Will Use Postgraduate Research to Improve African Lives
Kaitlyn Sparks is elated and beaming with pride that she has been selected as one of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) 2023 Rhodes Scholarship recipients. She will soon be on her… Read more »
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