Current News

CeBER is proud to celebrate the graduation of several of our postgraduate students, continuing our long-standing tradition of excellence in postgraduate education and research.

CeBER has taken an active role in tackling food and organic waste to landfill through UCT's Khusela Ikamva “secure the future” sustainable campus project by employing our understanding of anaerobic digestion technologies.

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

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 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...

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)...

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

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

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...

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

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