Development and Alumni Department News Archive

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March 2024

UCT master’s student in line for a global McCall MacBain Scholarship award - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 14:06
UCT’s H3D spearheads Africa’s drug discovery accelerator programme - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 13:58
UCT hosts Nobel Laureate for lecture on universal basic income in the developing world - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 13:22
Unlocking Futures Through the Power of Music: Professor Dizu Plaatjies - Mon, 03/11/2024 - 14:34
UCT’s iconic d-school Afrika is the top green-certified new academic building in Africa - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 13:32

February 2024

Support the Ikeys as they take on the Maties - Wed, 02/21/2024 - 15:25
The Anti Gender-Based Violence Programmes - Wed, 02/21/2024 - 14:54
Student Wellness Support - Wed, 02/21/2024 - 14:50
Unlocking Futures Bursaries - Wed, 02/21/2024 - 14:46
The Food Sovereignty Programme - Wed, 02/21/2024 - 14:40
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Susan Cleary - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 14:39
UCT YMCA launches alumni association - Mon, 02/12/2024 - 14:58
Bongani Mayosi Memorial Lecture: A tribute to the past and a celebration of the future of medicine in SA - Wed, 02/07/2024 - 14:52
Welcome parents and students to the UCT family - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 15:45
Summer School Distinguished Alumni Lecture: University of the Future project - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 15:26

December 2023

Annual UCT Bongani Mayosi Memorial Lecture - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 09:14
Celebrating UCT's class of 1973 - Wed, 12/20/2023 - 12:28
Summer School 2024 - Tue, 12/19/2023 - 22:53
Coming soon: Summer School, rooted in 100 years of lifelong learning - Mon, 12/11/2023 - 14:33

November 2023

UCT Alumni Padel Tournament brings out people’s A-game of fun and competition - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 15:54
Spirit of '68 Bursary Report - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 12:31
Remembering David Welsh - Fri, 11/03/2023 - 08:37

September 2023

NRF Awards recognise UCT scholars’ exceptional research - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 09:50
UCT’s d-school Afrika building bags 2023 SAICE Commendation Award - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 09:43
UCT Ikey Tigers flavour hits France - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 09:28

August 2023

University of the Future challenge - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 16:58
Women's Month 2023 - Tue, 08/08/2023 - 20:21

July 2023

Pay it forward: EMS launches young adults coding course - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 16:55
Law PhD at 26 for Gaopalelwe Mathiba – youngest in over a decade - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 15:20
UCT honours anti-apartheid poet Keith Gottschalk - Tue, 07/18/2023 - 23:05
Graduation of Nelson Mandela/Fidel Castro Medical Collaboration students - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 13:54

June 2023

AI, chatbots and ChatGPT: Threat to knowledge work, or a ‘dancing bear’? - Tue, 06/20/2023 - 18:35
Transgender youth explosion; early evaluation and support are vital - Mon, 06/12/2023 - 12:00

May 2023

Dr Stuart Saunders Lecture: The Nine Circles of Scholarship - Mon, 05/29/2023 - 16:44
‘A growing swamp’ – Dysfunction and corruption threaten SA’s universities - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 11:51
UCT ranks in top 1.4% of universities worldwide - Tue, 05/16/2023 - 10:55
UCT opera star who broke glass ceiling to sing at coronation - Tue, 05/02/2023 - 15:30

April 2023

KwaLanga Centenary 2023 - Mon, 04/17/2023 - 11:00
UCT alumni social enterprise aims to disrupt arts education landscape in SA - Fri, 04/14/2023 - 11:07
UCT retains excellence in the education of professional accountants - Thu, 04/06/2023 - 15:15

March 2023

UCT's development studies rank 12th in the world - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 16:41
Alumnus moves coding aways from old teaching methods - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 09:38
Human Rights for all: UCT’s Division of Disability Studies charts path to inclusion and accessibility - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 01:23
Big business and state capture: Step up and own up - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 13:14
100UP Saturday Summer School: a lens on possibilities for disadvantaged learners - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 10:59
Big wins for UCT at Presidential Golf Challenge - Wed, 03/01/2023 - 10:41

February 2023

Summer School: a growing public showcase for UCT research - Tue, 02/21/2023 - 14:02
Festival of learning – Summer School 2023 - Wed, 02/08/2023 - 17:12
SA vulnerable to becoming a mafia state - Thu, 02/02/2023 - 11:51

January 2023

The forgotten treason trial: Folly, war, law and legacy - Mon, 01/30/2023 - 12:45

UCT Centenary Seminar Series

In 2018, UCT’s Development & Alumnni Department hosted a seminar series to commemorate one hundred years of UCT as a degree-issuing institution.

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