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The annual CeBER Lab course for new students is late and distant, but live!

Some parts of research cannot be done virtually, and laboratory experiments are one of those. So the 2020 CeBER Laboratory Techniques course has been delayed by COVID-19 containment measures. But now it is up and running ... with a difference!

2021 Invitation to Apply for MSc

Are you currently completing a BSc Honours in Microbiology or a BSc in Chemical Engineering? Do you want to contribute to really worthwhile research, towards mitigating climate change and producing value with a negligible ecological

The CeBER Team fills in new spaces

Thanos Kotsiopoulos is now the Deputy Director of CeBER, coordinating our research teams for good collaboration as our multi-talented researchers tackle our portfolio of projects.

CeBER's Director, Sue Harrison, is taking UCT further

CeBER has now had three weeks' to get used to sharing our Director with the whole of UCT. On 01 August Sue Harrison began in earnest with the momentous task of Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation here at UCT.&nbs

Michael Odidi receives award for 5 minute video presentation at Sustainable Minerals Institute Next Generation Resources Student Conference

At CeBER we are thrilled that Michael was chosen for the runner-up award - richly deserved - for the video presentation of his research “The effect of bed and fluid properties on capillary pressure and its impact on the hydrodynamic mod

Shilpa Rumjeet Green Talent Award Winner 2018

Shilpa Rumjeet Selected as Green Talent Winner 2018

CeBER are proud to announce that Shilpa Rumjeet, CeBER’s wastewater biorefinery Project Coordinator, was selected as one of 25 outstanding young scientists to win the Green Talents Competition 2018...

Brewing UCT Win Again at SAB Intervarsity Beer Brewing Competition 2018

Brewing UCT have done it again! For the fourth time since the SAB Intervarsity Beer Brewing competition began 10 years ago, UCT have claimed the top prize as Overall Winners of the show...

CeBER and MtM Represent UCT at ICARD 2018

From the 10th-14th September 2018, representatives from CeBER and MtM left UCT for Pretoria to join 350 experts at the 11th International conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD)...

Shana Swart Represents CeBER at the International Conference on Biocatalysis 2018

The 9th International Conference on Biocatalysis took place from 26th – 30th of August in Hamburg, Germany, where one of CeBER’s PhD Students, Shanna Swart, received a Biocat Conference Grant to present her

Durga Iyer achieves Distinguished Toastmaster Award

Durga Iyer, a CeBER PhD candidate, earned the Distinguished Toastmaster Award in August 2018...

CeBER Deep Science Discussion: Acid Rock Drainage

On Monday the 13th August 2018, CeBER hosted and participated in a Deep Science discussion focussing on the environmental dilemma of Acid Rock Drainage...

Professor Jill Banfield Visits CeBER 2018

Prof Jill Banfield, CeBER Collaborator and Fellow of the UK Royal Society, has returned to CeBER for a much anticipated research visit from the 17th July to the 10th August...

Carol Ngwenya and Tynan Marais Represent CeBER at BRICS Young Scientist Forum 2018

From the the 25th-29th June, CeBER students Tynan Marais and Carol Ngwenya represented CeBER at the 3rd BRICS Young Scientist Forum...

CeBER Attend Biohydrometallurgy & Sustainable Minerals 2018

On the 12th of June 2018 CeBER touched down in Namibia to attend Biohydrometallurgy 2018 as well as Sustainable Minerals 2018...

Carol Wins CHE Poster Prize EBE PG Expo 2018

Carol Ngwenya wins 2018 Chemical Engineering Poster Prize at EBE PG Research Expo

The fifth annual EBE postgraduate Research Expo was hosted by the EBE postgraduate student council on Wednesday the 9th May 2018...

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