VC Dr Max Price gives feedback on the events of Wednesday, 28 September, including his press conference with local and national media.

Professor Karen Sliwa’s career has been characterised by chance and a lack of convention, and she has now broken convention again: the first female and the first person from Africa to be elected as president of the World Heart Federation.

The most widely respected world university rankings have all recently published their latest results. The release of the Times Higher Education 2016-17 and Quacquarelli Symonds 2016-17 rankings have coincided with a resurgence in protests at many of South Africa’s universities.

Dr Petrus le Roux has verified that a molar found in the Marquesas Islands probably belonged to artist Paul Gauguin.

Professor Kevin Naidoo, from UCT’s Scientific Computing Research Unit, is using computational chemistry to clarify the role that carbohydrates play in identifying types of cancer.

UCT academics led a picket outside Parliament on 22 September for better funding of higher education in South Africa.

UCT brewers scooped four titles in the SAB Intervarsity Brewing Challenge – top honours going to their playfully named Dunkel Breaking My Heart.

Amie Soudien’s Heritage Day tour in the city will present narratives around the little-known life of manumitted slave and South African stammoeder Ansla van Bengalen.

Chief among student demands at a mass meeting on UCT’s upper campus on 19 September was a call to bring back interdicted students and for free, decolonised education.