2+ hour, 12+ min ago   (469+ words) The list of 2025/2026 Science Oscars winners is in, and one University of Cape Town (UCT) academic and a research group made the cut. The prestigious National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)-South32 Awards, known locally as the ‘Science Oscars’, recognise excellence…...

21+ hour, 38+ min ago   (591+ words) More than three decades after South Africa celebrated the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island, the gradual recovery of native burrowing petrels might have been expected to support an increase in brown skua breeding territories inland. The unexpected…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (279+ words) 4 February 1966–4 July 2026 The University of Cape Town (UCT) community mourns the passing of Professor Rob Simmonds, a respected member of the Department of Computer Science and a central figure in building UCT’s data-intensive research infrastructure. Born on 4 February 1966, he passed…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (101+ words) Join the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Environmental Humanities South open access webinar series on African Environmentalism of Soil from 22 to 24 July. The final session will include a book launch of To Defend the Earth is to Defend the Human,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (267+ words) news.uct.ac.za Sincengile Ntshingila, Hlalanathi Mbimbi make Futurize Incubator cohort University of Cape Town (UCT) postdoctoral research fellow Dr Sincengile Ntshingila and MSc student Hlalanathi Mbimbi are among almost 100 innovators from across the country who are included in…...

4+ week, 2+ min ago   (840+ words) The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Associate Professor Joyce Mwangama is using artificial intelligence (AI) to put 5G in the hands of people who have never touched a router. A rural clinic in Limpopo needs a reliable internet connection to receive…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (836+ words) “The scholars who leave a lasting mark on their fields are often those who combine intellectual excellence with courage, imagination [and] persistence. It is this combination, alongside her scholarly excellence and leadership that has enabled Professor Jantina de Vries to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (643+ words) University of Cape Town (UCT)-led researchers decoded how cancer rewires the MUC1 protein’s sugar coating to evade immune detection, paving the way for new cancer vaccines, biomarkers and precision therapies. In the intricate biology of the human body, organs such…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (96+ words) news.uct.ac.za The Neuroscience Institute’s Clinical Omics and Informatics (COIN) Unit, led by Dr Melissa Nel, has a research mantra of “collaborative discovery”, which will be demonstrated in their upcoming solvathon event on 21 and 22 November. At this event,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1061+ words) Before discussing climate change, renewable fuels or breakthrough technologies, Professor Nico Fischer spent the opening 12 minutes of his inaugural lecture doing something unusual: saying thank you. Addressing an audience in a packed seminar room at the University of Cape Town…...