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Memory@UCT Indoda Ebisithanda (“The Man who Loved Us”): The Reverend James Laing among the amaXhosa 2023-06-08 19:48:37
Memory@UCT A 104 year old publisher and the Khoesan of South Africa 2023-06-05 16:26:35
Memory@UCT Crate by Crate: Making Progress Visible in AV Recovery 2023-05-29 08:35:54
Memory@UCT Whose copyright is that? Perpetual copyright and indigenous languages in archives 2023-04-21 13:54:43
Memory@UCT Tape: A paper conservators’ worst nightmare 2023-03-31 13:02:06
Memory@UCT The Art of Paper Handling: Understanding the Skill of moving Paper Objects 2023-03-24 11:31:17
Memory@UCT Archivist among librarians: Looking back with appreciation on my retirement 2023-03-22 20:34:40
Memory@UCT Tools of the Trade: must haves for every paper conservator 2023-03-17 16:44:06
Memory@UCT Human Rights in the AV Archive 2023-03-17 14:00:15
Memory@UCT Published Collections - Our Ongoing Recovery - Nearly Two Years On 2023-03-02 16:08:21
Memory@UCT The Life of Objects: Documentation 2023-01-17 18:00:40
Memory@UCT Fragments of the African Film Collection Survived the Fire 2023-01-16 12:21:12
Memory@UCT A Passion for Paper - Establishing a Conservation Unit at UCT Libraries 2022-11-04 15:15:06
Memory@UCT Film students and the Digital archive 2022-10-21 12:27:53
Memory@UCT Exploring architectural archives in recovery 2022-09-16 16:29:59
Memory@UCT The Satgar-Williams Special Collection at UCT Library 2022-07-29 15:56:46
Memory@UCT Celebrating UCT's Librarians 2022-07-20 14:28:07
Memory@UCT Digitising the AV Archive 2022-04-29 10:52:16
Memory@UCT Video Restoration Television (VRTV) Audio-Visual Project at UCT 2022-04-07 20:44:13
Memory@UCT Recovery and Capacity Building in Special Collections 2022-02-25 14:01:43
Memory@UCT I shall never forget 2021 2022-01-05 14:45:48
Memory@UCT One Book’s Conservation Journey 2021-11-24 13:37:00
Memory@UCT Memories of the Archives Triggered by the Jagger Fire: 1975 to 1995 2021-11-03 17:07:12
Memory@UCT Jagger Panorama Tour Now Available 2021-10-08 14:53:40
Memory@UCT Recovering the Archive 2021-09-23 15:06:34
Memory@UCT After the Salvage 2021-09-03 14:44:46
Memory@UCT Jagger : the remains of the day 2021-08-11 13:52:54
Memory@UCT My Personal Journey Through COVID, Fire and Salvage to Recovery 2021-07-15 14:47:51
Memory@UCT To the Jagger Salvage Volunteers. Thank you. 2021-07-01 14:19:51
Memory@UCT Africa Month 2021-05-12 12:16:50
Memory@UCT Sea Cadets 2021-05-03 19:31:39
Memory@UCT Call for Volunteers 2021-05-02 18:18:10
Memory@UCT Mourning Session Report 2021-04-28 17:14:24
Memory@UCT A window of opportunity 2021-04-23 11:44:36
Memory@UCT Today we lay in ashes, but tomorrow we will rise again Today, we held a #JaggerLibraryMemorial to share this devastating loss together as Libraries staff. 2021-04-22 11:14:00
digital pathology My mother’s pathology - sarcoidosis 2021-04-09 15:23:16
Memory@UCT My Lockdown Experience 2021-04-01 12:25:19
Memory@UCT A curatorial object study of Special Collections’ hidden viral objects 2021-03-24 19:46:46
Memory@UCT Exploring the life of David Russell 2021-03-16 11:23:28
@czernie Test 2021-01-07 15:29:12
digital pathology The manner of our passing 2021-01-06 15:41:58
Memory@UCT Images of Power: South African Political Posters in the Struggle 2020-09-14 17:08:00
Memory@UCT Literacy, a shared goal 2020-09-02 18:00:47
Science Faculty Store We have moved to MS Teams. Please use the code b3x9vlx to join us. 2020-08-13 19:33:39
Memory@UCT New history of UCT under Apartheid shines a light on archival sources in Special Collections 2020-08-12 13:03:56
Memory@UCT A Little Known Era of South African Film: The B-Scheme Industry and the Retro Afrika Bioscope Series 2020-07-16 12:54:55
Memory@UCT Ons Sal Jou Tussen Die Sterre Sien | We Will Look For You In the Stars 2020-06-19 17:30:46
MSA Postgrads Quiz Night 2.0 2019-11-16 06:18:15
MSA Postgrads Decolonizing Islam in the South African Experience 2019-11-16 06:15:50
MSA Postgrads First Muslim Research Expo 2019-11-16 05:11:38
Memory@UCT The Nagin Parbhoo History of Anaesthesia Museum 2019-10-15 17:14:36
Memory@UCT Finding traces of Jewish German refugees in South African archives 2019-09-02 11:08:14
Memory@UCT Reflecting on the early history of women in the academy 2019-08-07 17:09:29
Memory@UCT African Studies Collection 2019-05-31 14:46:45
Memory@UCT The story of a land claim 2019-05-24 16:48:29
Memory@UCT Early Hebraica and Judaica at the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town 2019-05-22 16:09:14
Memory@UCT Unbanned: the Films South Africans Were Not Allowed to See 2019-05-03 09:30:11
Memory@UCT The Long Walk to Academic Freedom 2019-04-26 12:13:32
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog POSTGRADUATE CANCER RESEARCH INITIATIVE GROUP: 2018 REPORT 2019-01-25 09:32:15
National Benchmark Tests A response to misconceptions about the NBTs 2018-11-08 11:35:46
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog PhD Opportunity in Finland 2018-10-23 11:53:29
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Overcoming Post PhD Blues 2018-10-23 11:41:42
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog CEBHA+ Cochrane South Africa Master’s scholarship 2018-09-07 23:12:54
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Knowledge, Interchange and Collaboration (KIC) 2nd Call 2018-08-21 13:26:53
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Call for Applications: CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018-08-21 13:06:25
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Writing a Doctoral Thesis 2018-07-31 12:53:24
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Overcoming 'PhD Blues' 2018-07-11 10:39:17
The International Law Blog What is this blog about? (2 min read) 2018-07-05 00:12:07
National Benchmark Tests Essential NBT information 2018-06-19 12:02:06
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Predatory Publishing Practices 2018-06-05 08:03:20
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Are You the Ironman or Wonder Woman of the Science? 2018-05-16 12:49:22
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog CancerSEEK: A Novel Blood Cancer Test 2018-01-23 10:21:21
National Benchmark Tests The articulation gap and the NBTs 2018-01-09 15:05:20
Palliative Medicine Dying with Dignity! 2018-01-05 19:19:19
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Fusobacterium nucleatum and Colorectal Cancer 2017-12-19 10:38:50
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Hormonal Contraception and Breast Cancer 2017-12-11 08:18:13
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog 32nd International Papillomavirus Conference: Call for Abstracts 2017-12-09 12:30:10
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Research Journey 2017-12-01 20:28:33
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Paediatric Brain Tumours 2017-11-30 15:34:21
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog del 16 in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia 2017-11-28 11:19:19
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog HPV Testing in Cervical Cancer Screening 2017-11-27 11:38:53
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Bowel Cancer Screening Test 2017-11-23 11:12:11
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog HBV Vaccination: Protection against Lymphoma Development 2017-11-20 09:41:11
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Personalizing Cervical Cancer Screening Based on HPV Vaccination Status 2017-11-17 18:40:52
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Breast Cancer Targets 2017-11-07 17:59:30
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog The Secret Suckiness of Life after Breast Cancer 2017-11-04 15:24:52
National Benchmark Tests Is there still time to write the NBTs? 2017-11-03 10:15:38
UCT MOOCs blog MOOCs inspire new educational opportunities 2017-10-31 08:38:53
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Biomarker for Breast Cancer 2017-10-27 11:59:04
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Unintended Pregnancy during Radiotherapy 2017-10-25 09:31:12
UCT MOOCs blog Developing academic writing skills for university through a new free online course 2017-10-04 10:11:34
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Detection of Breast Cancer by Mass Screening 2017-10-02 08:47:43
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog South African Breast Cancer Policy 2017-09-18 16:24:12
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Racial Variation in Cervical Cancer Mortality Rates 2017-09-18 10:00:34
Memory@UCT NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS FORE EDGE 2017-09-13 11:32:54
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Oncopig Model for Cancer Research 2017-09-06 11:16:51
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Breast Cancer Screening using Mammography 2017-09-05 11:54:34
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog BIGOSA 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting 2017-08-28 18:12:24
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Gut Microbiome and Cancer Therapy 2017-08-24 16:49:21
UCT MOOCs blog How can developing countries contribute to the challenge of achieving climate change mitigation AND their own development 2017-08-24 14:09:32
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog UNESCO-MERCK Africa Research Summit 2017 2017-08-12 14:27:00
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Biostatistics Seminar Series 2017-08-11 15:14:13
Blog Demo mail test 2017-08-07 13:24:01
Blog Demo test-post 2017-08-07 13:21:28
Blog Demo test post 2017-08-07 10:33:32
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Cancer Network in Africa 2017-08-03 13:45:40
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Welcoming New Members 2017-07-31 08:53:01
Memory@UCT CATCH-22: THE ALBUM 2017-07-10 12:42:07
Memory@UCT STARTING WITH WHY 2017-06-03 13:12:29
UCT MOOCs blog Absolutely brilliant course: From green algae to humans - Life on Earth in five weeks 2017-05-24 15:18:50
Food, ethics and identity in the post-apartheid city March 2017 Workshops in South Africa 2017-05-16 12:32:39
Food, ethics and identity in the post-apartheid city Hello + Welcome! 2017-05-16 12:21:48
UCT MOOCs blog Positioning MOOCs in Open Education at OEGlobal2017 2017-05-08 17:33:51
UCT MOOCs blog Making MOOCs possible - meet our Digital Media Unit 2017-04-13 09:33:00
Education Development Unit (EDU) A local global conference on Open Education 2017-03-23 16:50:48
UCT MOOCs blog Engagement vs Learning - Assessing the research in online video production 2017-01-31 17:32:44
100 Working Days Hello world! 2017-01-23 12:00:49
UCT MOOCs blog UCT MOOCs ranked highly on Class Central 2017-01-19 17:06:50
UCT MOOCs blog New RLabs cafe brings the Social Innovation MOOC to the community 2016-12-20 10:32:04
UCT MOOCs blog Learners share how the Understanding Clinical Research MOOC has helped them 2016-12-18 12:18:50
UCT MOOCs blog Julia is a language for the future - a sentiment shared by educators on the Julia Scientific Programming MOOC 2016-12-09 12:43:58
UCT MOOCs blog Exploring the challenge of mitigating climate change while promoting development 2016-11-09 14:26:26
UCT MOOCs blog A MOOC mentor's perspective on supporting learners 2016-10-26 12:16:54
UCT MOOCs blog The experience of learners taking Education for All: Disability, Diversity and Inclusion 2016-10-20 16:45:19
UCT MOOCs blog The lightboard - making magic 2016-09-23 09:00:41
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Cancer policies and key role players in cancer research 2016-09-15 10:00:51
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog 16th IUBMB Young Scientist Program and Conference (14-21 July 2016, Vancouver, Canada) 2016-08-19 10:48:28
Computing Platforms @ UCT CHEC Library Systems virtualised 2016-08-15 15:23:13
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog The 25th South African Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology congress 2016 2016-07-27 14:17:11
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Networking breakfast 2016-06-21 12:14:30
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Welcome to Dr Henry Adeola 2016-05-31 14:58:37
EBE Postgraduate Student Council 2016 EBE Research Expo 2016-05-13 22:50:12
EBE Postgraduate Student Council 2016 EBE Research Expo - Programme 2016-05-10 00:07:42
EBE Postgraduate Student Council 2015 EBE Research Expo 2016-05-07 16:56:44
digital pathology Of mushrooms and men 2016-05-05 18:11:55
UCT Telecommunication Master's Blog Ericsson's MEng. (Telecom) Bursaries 2016-05-03 15:51:39
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog CRISPR technology: A tool for translational cancer research? 2016-04-25 07:25:56
EBE Postgraduate Student Council Outreach In Langa 2016-04-24 20:13:48
EBE Postgraduate Student Council 2016 Research Expo - Call For Abstracts 2016-04-24 17:33:25
EBE Postgraduate Student Council 2016 UCT EBE Hoodie Competition 2016-04-24 17:31:50
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Survival tips for successfully navigating the PhD landscape 2016-03-30 10:20:37
UCT MOOCs blog Education for All: Disability, Diversity and Inclusion – new course launches 2016-03-29 10:46:51
Education Development Unit (EDU) Head of EDU visits Namibia for MEDUNAM project 2016-03-17 12:33:03
Education Development Unit (EDU) Kudos to new health profession educators 2016-02-16 10:35:31
Education Development Unit (EDU) Ninth SAAHE conference at Boardwalk 2016-02-12 10:42:44
Education Development Unit (EDU) New SAFRI fellows join the ranks 2016-02-05 10:46:48
UCT MOOCs blog What is a mind? one of Best Online Courses of 2015 2016-02-01 13:42:12
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Fallen Heroes: The battle against cancer continues 2016-01-22 12:12:03
UCT MOOCs blog UCT MOOCs on Coursera 2015-12-11 10:24:38
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Potential for cancer research collaborations in Africa: a clinical scientist’s opinion 2015-12-08 10:07:03
digital pathology Historical descriptive terms in pathology – do they just cause confusion? 2015-11-18 12:52:40
UCT MOOCs blog Understanding Clinical Research Promo Video 2015-11-16 14:00:03
UCT MOOCs blog Thinking and feeling: what’s the difference? 2015-11-04 12:30:26
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Translational Cancer Research: building bridges 2015-10-30 11:55:25
Palliative Medicine Palliative Care - The New Beginning 2015-10-20 20:44:16
Palliative Medicine The Mentors! 2015-10-20 16:07:21
Palliative Medicine The COURSE STRUCTURE at UCT! 2015-10-19 01:20:10
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog “Rubbish in, rubbish out” 2015-10-01 10:28:22
Computing Platforms @ UCT F5 High Availability 2015-09-17 16:28:00
Education Development Unit (EDU) Professional Development Courses 2015-09-17 13:07:21
Education Development Unit (EDU) Research Day 2016 2015-09-17 11:58:39
Education Development Unit (EDU) Innovative Teaching Using Technology 2015-09-17 11:56:31
Education Development Unit (EDU) "Rhodes Has Fallen, Now What?" 2015-09-16 16:47:57
Responsa Meridiana Student Law Journal 2015 Edition Call for Submissions! 2015-09-07 10:37:58
Computing Platforms @ UCT Cloud Apps: A brave new world...? 2015-08-31 15:03:43
Education Development Unit (EDU) Education Development Unit 2015-08-27 12:43:49
Postgraduate Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) blog Welcome to the Cancer PhD mentorship Blog 2015-08-25 11:43:49
Palliative Medicine So What is Palliative Care ? 2015-08-24 17:08:38
Computing Platforms @ UCT Performance Tuning SQL Server - where to begin 2015-08-24 16:38:30
Computing Platforms @ UCT SAFIRE Project 2015-08-24 11:13:59
ICTS 2020 Environmental survey allows ICTS'ers to have their say 2015-08-20 17:45:20
Anatomical Pathology International Pathology Day 2015-08-20 17:22:18
ICTS 2020 Questions to help you better understand the current environment 2015-08-18 18:24:39
ICTS 2020 Successful practices that people would like to share or spread 2015-08-18 18:20:35
ICTS 2020 Strongest concerns arising from the survey 2015-08-18 18:19:26
ICTS 2020 "We do a good job, but it’s harder than it needs to be" 2015-08-18 17:55:38
ICTS 2020 Welcome to the ICTS 2020 blog 2015-08-17 12:43:49
Education Development Unit (EDU) Teach and learn outside silos 2015-08-15 13:38:32
Anatomical Pathology UCT Pathology links 2015-08-12 14:29:24
Anatomical Pathology Creating forms in word 2015-08-09 14:22:58
Anatomical Pathology Learning pathology 2015-08-07 10:08:30
Computing Platforms @ UCT Visit from NWU staff 2015-08-05 15:35:29
Anatomical Pathology What's a pathologist? 2015-07-27 20:04:03
Blog Demo Have your say! 2015-07-27 12:47:31
Blog Demo Meta Slider 2015-07-27 08:54:06
Blog Demo Welcome to Blogs@UCT 2015-07-27 08:22:50
Palliative Medicine Naomi Fray! 2015-07-26 23:07:31
Palliative Medicine Why Palliative Medicine? 2015-07-24 20:04:37
Computing Platforms @ UCT Email to Office 365... 2015-07-24 12:07:21
Computing Platforms @ UCT Openstack in the ICTS Datacenter 2015-07-23 11:54:18
Computing Platforms @ UCT Meet the team... 2015-07-21 13:39:06
UCT MOOCs blog Facilitating extraordinary conversations 2015-06-05 09:49:47
UCT MOOCs blog Medicine and the Arts begins 2015-04-09 12:38:55
UCT MOOCs blog Evaluating UCT MOOCs: a strategy for learning 2015-03-02 10:35:39
UCT MOOCs blog The Making of a MOOC 2014-12-18 14:13:23
UCT MOOCs blog When producing a MOOC remember: keep calm and check the schedule!  2014-12-15 12:39:02
ASABA UCT Chapter Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Climate Change and Human Exposure to Hormone Disrupting Chemicals Climate Change & Endocrine Disruption: Where is the Link? 2014-11-17 12:43:49
CEM Community Build 2016 team 3 Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
@czernie Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
EBE Postgraduate Student Council Postgrad Q&A 2014-11-17 12:43:49
@UCTGenMed Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Safety Matters Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Iqra'a UCT Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Jacques Ophoff Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Library News Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Love and Power: finding meaning in community-based higher education Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
My Notebook Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
MSA Postgrads Assalaam Alaykum! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
National Benchmark Tests Why this blog? 2014-11-17 12:43:49
NMD Afrika Research Initiative Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Palliative Medicine Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Network for Religion Education Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Research Portal News Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Share Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
Small-Scale Fisheries and Coastal Research Group New policy brief on customary rights and practice in small-scale fisheries 2014-11-17 12:43:49
UCT International Blog Hello world! 2014-11-17 12:43:49
UCT MOOCs blog Why MOOCs Matter to Us 2014-10-23 08:46:49
digital pathology White Board Art 2014-10-10 12:36:40
digital pathology Dipping into old Cape autopsies Part 2 2013-10-14 11:00:36
digital pathology Dipping into old Cape autopsies Part 1 2013-09-27 14:13:39
digital pathology Person in a bottle 2013-07-26 12:40:23
digital pathology Of hibernation and hibernomas 2013-06-07 13:43:17
digital pathology Borrowed organs 2013-04-15 14:53:45
UCT Green Campus Initiative Getting Ready for Green Week 2012 2012-04-10 17:15:44
UCT Green Campus Initiative Improved Teaching Key to Improved Throughputs of Students 2011-11-28 12:15:12
UCT Green Campus Initiative UCT Student Group Takes Initiative 2011-11-28 11:15:56
UCT Green Campus Initiative ACDI Unveiled 2011-11-14 13:15:47
UCT Green Campus Initiative Prince of Wales Speaks on the Global and the Local 2011-11-06 00:15:53
UCT Green Campus Initiative UCT Steps Up 'Green Star' Initiatives 2011-10-03 12:30:02
UCT Green Campus Initiative Go, Going, Green! 2011-10-03 12:15:19
UCT Green Campus Initiative GCI Joins Forces to Launch National Network 2011-08-08 14:30:28
UCT Green Campus Initiative Student Blows Competition Away with Wind Generator 2010-03-29 14:15:08