Honorary Professor Gavin Mooney, a UCT scholar acclaimed for his part in developing the discipline of health economics in South Africa and at UCT, has died. Australian media reported this week that Mooney and his partner, Dr Del Weston, were both murdered in their home in Tasmania. Read more...

As hundreds of graduands from UCT's Faculty of Commerce eagerly awaited being capped and hooded on 14 December, Maria Ramos was on hand to arm them with some advice from the business end of the working world. Read more...

Moustaches were out in force the world over this 'Movember', and UCT's Information and Communication Technology Services (ICTS) bumped the cancer awareness drive up a notch. The department raised R1,217 - tripling what it raised in 2010 - from selling cupcakes and fake moustaches and donations, all for the benefit of the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA). Read more...

Sparks flew on UCT's Medical Campus on 6 December when two internationally-renowned medical scholars talked cholesterol and diet. Read more...

It's not often that a distinguished international dignitary takes time out to mentor emerging researchers, and share news on the latest research developments and funding opportunities. Read more...

The headline kind of lets the cat out of the bag - South Africa has its first A-rated scientist from a commerce faculty. This after recent appointee to UCT's School of Economics, Professor Harold Kincaid, was awarded an A-rating by the National Research Foundation (NRF) in its latest round of evaluations. That marks Kincaid as an international leader in his field. Read more...

Just as UCT prepared to graduate thousands of the current cohort of students, it made an announcement that would please the next ones coming in. The university yesterday announced that from January 2013 the institution will implement a significantly improved financial assistance policy for South African undergraduate students that will guarantee the necessary financial support to any student who is accepted on academic grounds and eligible for assistance. Read more...

Forget about the end of the world. For the students who received their degrees from the Faculty of Health Sciences on 12 December - at the first of 12 graduation ceremonies UCT has lined up for the next week - the occasion in many ways marked a new beginning. Read more...

The land of O₂ (yes, as in oxygen), was wilting. Pollution from the greedy witch's factories was destroying forests, dirtying the air and generally putting a damper on things. Young Dorothy and her dog, Toto, set out in search of the Wizard of the Emerald City in the hope that he would defeat the witch and save the dying land. Read more...