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 »
February 15
South Africa: Machine-Learning Research Earns UCT Academic NRF P-Rating
Dr Jan Buys, a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town (UCT), specialising in natural language processing (NLP) and machine-learning (ML), has been awarded a prestigious… 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 »
December 13, 2022
South Africa: Innovative Gynaecological Device Tackles Women's Health On the Ground
Sexual and reproductive ill-health accounts for one third of the global disease burden among women and adolescent girls of reproductive age. Despite many advances in access to… Read more »
November 16, 2022
South Africa: South African Women Innovators Win Big At International Falling Walls Lab
University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD candidate Emma Horn won second place in the Falling Walls Lab world finals with her 'green' bio-tile innovation. Tamlyn Sasha Naidu, a… Read more »
November 08, 2022
South Africa: Three UCT Students Showcase Scientific Solutions in Geneva
They went to shine, and shine they did. Applying predictions of the science of the future to find solutions to present challenges, meeting young minds from across the world,… Read more »
August 04, 2022
South Africa: Four Women At Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine Awarded Grants Geared for Upskilling and Capacity Development
The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) Transformation Committee (ITC), has awarded four grants to two professional,… Read more »
South Africa: Young UCT Scientist Selected As One of Esteemed Global Schmidt Science Fellows
Geomagnetic currents fundi and University of Cape Town's (UCT) National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme (NASSP) graduate Dr Michael Heyns has been announced as one of the… Read more »
July 28, 2022
South Africa: Can Asteroids and Geoengineering the Stratosphere Save the Planet?
Shooting aerosols into the stratosphere to reduce solar radiation and to cool the earth's surface; mining a mineral-rich asteroid belt in space to sustain our technologies; living… Read more »