University of Cape Town

If you’ve been to upper campus recently, then you’ve likely seen the giant 90 m sculpture on the plaza and wondered what it’s all about.The work of art has been created by a group of environmentally conscious University of Cape Town (UCT)…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has been ranked in the 101–200 band overall by the 2022 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, which measures the success of universities in delivering the United Nations Sustainable Development…

The newly launched J&J Satellite Centre for Global Health Discovery at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Holistic Drug Development Centre (H3D) hopes to fast track the discovery and development of new antibiotics to curb rising…

A concerning number of healthcare workers (HCWs) in South Africa lack sufficient understanding of how the antiretroviral (ARV) drug dolutegravir (DTG) interacts with medicines prescribed to treat tuberculosis (TB), diabetes and epilepsy.…

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Lung Institute in partnership with Novartis and the Department of Health launched a ‘lab-in-a-cab’ mobile TB clinic on Monday, 19 April 2022.The mobile clinic was developed by UCT academics to help find…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) commemorated the devastating 1-year fires to the UCT Jagger Library with the opening of a special Jagger Library memorial exhibition titled, “Of Smoke and Ash” which is open to the public at the Michaelis…

The use of digital technology has taken the media industry by storm globally, offering journalists the flexibility they need to execute their work from any corner of the world. But despite the convenience, it also places them at great…

If people don’t come to the clinic, the clinic must go to the people. This is the strategy behind the launch of a spanking new mobile tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic clinic that will target the province’s undiagnosed – and often asymptomatic…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has moved from 10th to 9th in the world and is among the top 100 institutions for a further four subjects. This is according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject 2022,…

A fascinating research paper authored by University of Cape Town (UCT) academic Associate Professor Emese Bordy, which carefully studies a trackway made by a tiny, agile dinosaur almost 200 million years ago, offers an “evocative” reading…