Dr Melissa Densmore’s research into bandwidth-constrained communities in and around Cape Town tackles difficult questions about what the internet should look like in Africa.
Research has shed light on a barrier to developing an HIV cure: the latent viral reservoir that persists indefinitely in people on antiretroviral treatment.
UCT is an inclusive and engaged research-intensive African university that inspires creativity through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery and citizenship; enhancing the lives of its students and staff, advancing a more equitable and sustainable social order and influencing the global higher education landscape.
The vice-chancellors of all 26 public universities are calling for an urgent meeting with the President of South Africa, to register their anger at the scourge of gender-based violence in the country and to push for a plan of action to respond decisively to this crisis. Read more.5 September 2019
UCT leads, in Africa, in all of the five major world university rankings: Times Higher Education, Quacquarelli Symonds, Center for World University Rankings, US News Best Global Universities and ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities.
136th Times Higher Education
UCT moved 20 places to 136th position in the latest 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
121st US News
The sixth edition of the US News Best Global Universities rankings saw UCT being ranked 121st globally for 2020.
An exhibition by photographer, Ellen Elmendorp, featuring the traditional way of capturing fish, a fast vanishing livelihood practised in a particular part of False Bay.
Parasitic worms, or helminths, infect roughly one in five people on the planet and cause pathology in hundreds of millions. Given the global impact on human health and welfare, there is a great need to develop novel therapies and/or vaccines that target helminths. In addition, the unique nature of how these parasites interact with their hosts has brought tremendous insight into the mammalian immune system.
