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UCT Student Group Takes Initiative

The Green Campus Initiative (GCI) has proven itself to be an industrious and committed group of environmentally concerned students; and not just during campus times, mind you.

Three GCI members will attend – as official UCT delegates – the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP17, starting in Durban at the end of November.

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Student Blows Competition Away with Wind Generator

Switched on: Katherine Thomson of the Faculty of Science, Chris Barnett (SCRU), Adiel Hattes of the Leadership College, Dr Karl Wilkinson (SCRU) and Ian Rogers (SCRU) at the handover of computers.

When UCT’s Scientific Computing Research Unit (SCRU) – which applies its vast computing platform to research in computational biology, physics, chemistry and biophysics – moved into state-of-the-art modern facilities recently, it chose not to decommission its old and unused computer equipment.

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