Process mineralogy (course)
Hands-on students build homes - and goodwill
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FET chemistry illuminated for science teachers
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Grantham takes on the world
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UCT bids farewell to retirees
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Rotary Club of Umhlanga nurtures conservation training
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Groote Schuur's culture of helping goes big
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African Universities Day with a difference
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New centre tackles other disease burden
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UCT thanks committed security officers
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New African dinosaur was very down to earth
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For the past five years, first-year construction studies students have participated in a 'community build' as part of their service-learning programme. Karen Le Jeune, a lecturer in construction studies, organises the community build with the Niall Mellon Township challenge programme.
Such has been the success of the UCT Department of Chemical Engineering's annual science teachers' afternoon that attendee numbers have grown from 30 to over 100 in 2009. This year's theme was Responding to the challenges in teaching FET chemistry.
UCT student and Miss Earth South Africa 2009, Chanel Grantham, is set to show off her beauty and her environmental awareness work when she participates in the Global Miss Earth pageant. A BSc student in property studies, Grantham is currently in the Philippines where the month-long finale culminates with the coronation on 22 November.
Both demanding and fulfilling is how retiring staff members described their time at UCT, as the university bid them farewell at the Retirees Dinner on 12 November. One of these was William Melenephy, whose 37 years of service had its ups and downs.
Putting their weight behind biodiversity conservation, the Rotary Club of Umhlanga in KwaZulu-Natal has agreed to provide a bursary for a conservation biology master's student at UCT each year for the next two years. The master’s programme is offered by UCT’s Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, which will celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2010.
The growing tradition at Groote Schuur residence to embark on annual community outreach projects took a giant leap forward this year when students turned up in numbers to spruce up St George's Home for Girls in Wynberg.
Staff at the International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO) celebrated African Universities Day on 12 November in style, swapping their everyday outfits for traditional dress. African Universities Day is an annual commemoration, launched in 1994 by the Association of African Universities to celebrate and highlight Higher Education in Africa and its contribution towards development on the continent.
While infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis may hog the daily headlines in Africa, the just-launched Sub-Saharan Africa Centre for Chronic Diseases (SSACCD), hosted by UCT, is putting in its crosshairs the growing tide of chronic and lifestyle diseases that is sneaking up on the continent.
Gary Dyssel, crime prevention manager with Campus Protection Services (CPS), was one of several security officers to be presented with cash awards from the university as tokens of appreciation for their commitment in fighting crime on campus on 11 November.
Just a year or so after its release, Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan may have to make a few revisions to her children's book, Famous Dinosaurs of Africa, now that a new and very special African dinosaur, named Aardonyx celestae, has been identified.