University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan is the lead author of a paper that was recently published on a 15-million-year-old giant wombat-like animal from Australia.Fifteen million years ago, giant wombat-like…

As winter settles across the country, Stay&Connect, a division of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) hospitality division, has released a trove of linen amounting to over R400 000 to six organisations in Cape Town.Each organisation…

Calling all University of Cape Town (UCT) creators, innovators and entrepreneurs: the international Falling Walls Lab, a conglomerate and forum for young innovators in science, technology, medicine, and other fields, is heading to the…

The second lecture in the new series of Inaugural Lectures at the University of Cape Town (UCT) was presented by Professor Kirsty Donald on Wednesday, 10 May 2023.Donald is deputy director of the UCT Neuroscience Institute and for the…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) remains the best university in Africa and has been ranked 267th worldwide, up three places from last year, by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) in their 2023 Global 2000 list, which was…

Four UCT research teams have received grants in the second phase of the Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and Science in Africa (DELTAS II) programme. The highly competitive initiative aims to support international research…

University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers Professor Gina Ziervogel and Johan Enqvist, along with Environmental Monitoring Group (EMG) representative Siyabonga Myeza, have recently collaborated with arts-based collaborative Interfer to…

On Sunday, 30 April, the University of Cape Town (UCT) ParaSports hosted a Wheelchair Basketball tournament. The club invited the Conquerors Wheelchair Basketball Club from Retreat to play against a combined UCT team featuring players…

A new Nature Ecology & Evolution study predicts when and where climate change is likely to expose species across the globe to potentially dangerous temperatures. Researchers from University College London (UCL), the University of Cape…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has done it again. Twelve of its academics and one university partnership have been selected as finalists in multiple categories for the 2022/2023 NSTF-South32 Awards – testament to their groundbreaking…