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Members of the Scientific Computing Research Unit (SCRU) celebrated with Tharindu Senapathi, who became the first graduate in the Masters degree in Computational Science at UCT and in South Africa.
In his keynote address to the fifth Science in Africa UnConference in London, Professor Kelly Chibale, from the Department of Chemistry, highlighted the need to proactively seek out and nurture existing pockets of scientific excellence in Africa.
James Foster and Shaun Maxwell of the UCT Department of Computer Science have developed a mobile app that can be used to streamline and support research and drug testing, particularly in less well-equipped laboratories.
Researchers from University of Surrey, in collaboration with groups in South Africa, Brazil, Colombia and the USA, examined the sleep patterns of people from two neighbouring communities in Mozambique: the small electrified urban town Milange and the non-electrified rural community Tengua, to determine whether urbansation and electrification decrease the amount that we sleep. Associate Professor Laura Roden, from the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology is the senior authors on the study.