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"Ms. Apiwe Macingwane: Uplifting Excellence in Computer Science - Selected for Prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2024" Congratulations to Ms. Apiwe Macingwane, the current Treasurer of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) Women in Computer Science Society, on being selected to participate in...

Virtual Reality Improves UWC’s Health Professional Education Some concepts and terminologies for learning anatomy and physiology are foreign to many first-year students, which creates an academic challenge in modules where these concepts ...

UWC alumnus is Africa’s brightest tech star Joseph Lumbahe is creating a star shower in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in the ICT world as accolades seem to accumulate in his constellation. His recen...

Artificial intelligence is used for predictive policing in the US and UK – South Africa should embrace it, too In the 2002 movie Minority Report (based on a short story by Philip K Dick), director Steven Spielberg imagined a future in which three psychics can “see” murde...

UWC master’s student continues his study mapping and pinpointing hijacking hotspots Hijacking is currently a topic that grips at the heart of South Africans. Just between July and September 2021 there was a total of 4973 hijackings in South Africa and the gener...

Mobile app offers new learning tools for anatomy students. But tech isn’t a silver bullet For most people who finished school or university even a decade ago, the idea of virtual reality in the classroom probably seems like the stuff of science fiction. But immersive...

UWC students win national entrepreneurship competition and trip to the US A University of the Western Cape (UWC) team has won an overseas trip to the US, with an additional three students claiming a cash prize of 100 dollars each. This bi...

UWC Team wins Cluster Challenge A UWC student team, the “Parallelizers”, were winners at the CHPC (Centre for High Performance Computing) 2021 Student Cluster Competition, and will go on to compete...

Mountains, mines and mentors Environmental management consultant Glenton Moses’s academic and career journey has been much like ascending Mount Kilimanjaro, which he did in 2013. On the one hand, it w...

Virtual pharmacist app for the Deaf Researchers at UWC have developed an app suite for mobile phones that provides Deaf people with the means to discuss their medication needs with a pharmacist – in sign lan...

UWC is part of the Railoun family It’s not unusual at UWC for students to follow their sibling’s course of study or even for several siblings to be studying there at the same time. But the Railoun fa...

Immersive Technologies have benefits for industry Higher education institutions are meant to produce graduates and innovations that are relevant and responsive to society’s needs. That is exactly what UWC is doing. After ...

UWC alumni couple flourishes in the UK She was a Mathematical Science student; he, a Computer Science scholar. Today, almost three decades ago love blossomed in a computer science laboratory at the University of the ...