UCT alumnus Dr Toni-Lee Sterley was the lead author among a team of University of Calgary researchers who discovered that brain cells change following close contact with a stressed individual.
In between mapping out the ionosphere and negotiating with wary gatekeepers to get “classified data” from GPS receivers, Dr John Bosco Habarulema has a bigger, and possibly more daunting, mission.
As a foreign student at UCT, Zambian Chanda Chungu could have adopted a detached approach to his alma mater: get a degree and return home. But a conviction that international students have much to add to the learning experience at UCT led to his deep involvement in campus and student life.