Good News

BULLETIN 4 July

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# The University of Cape Town has been ranked 77th worldwide in the annual list published by Times Higher Education, breaking into the top 100 for the first time. The Impact Ranking system uses the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals as a guide and has evaluated one-thousand-963 universities. Interim vice-chancellor Daya Reddy says UCT plays a significant role in forging effective, equitable Global North-South as well as South-South partnerships, in this way contributing towards building expertise in Africa for Africa.

# Stellenbosch University’s immunologist professor, Clive Gray, has received the prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award. The fellowship and its accompanying 2.5-million-rand grant is awarded to scholars who are engaged in cutting-edge and internationally significant research that has far-reaching impact. The university says Gray’s work is aimed at revealing new knowledge about how to manage the risks of premature birth, low birth weight and learning difficulties, by uncovering a predictive marker of adverse birth events.

# Salad lovers are celebrating the invention of the Caesar salad exactly 100 years ago. Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini is credited with the invention at his restaurant, Caesar’s Place, in Tijuana, Mexico. Struggling to feed his customers on a hot night, Cardini tossed whole Romaine leaves with garlic-flavoured oil, Worcestershire sauce, lemons, boiled eggs and Parmesan cheese. The restaurant says it still makes as many as 300 Caesar salads every day. Tijuana is planning a three-day food and wine festival, and the unveiling of a statue of Cardini.

# An early artwork by Venetian master Titian, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, has sold for a record-breaking estimated 405-million-rand at an auction in London. The painting which has been stolen several times, was found in a plastic bag at a bus stop in London in 1995 after it was taken from Longleat House in England. Auction house Christie’s Letizia Treves says Titian created the work in the first decade of the 16th century, at the beginning of his career:

# And finally: For many British voters today’s outing to the poles seems to have turned into a family affair. They use the opportunity to explain the principles of democracy to their children, but at the same time let the dogs out. Luna the Cockapoo was one on the first to arrive at a venue in southwest London. Also in London George the Cocker Spaniel joined his one-year-old human sister Darcey as their parents voted. Even the felines went “walkies” with Louie the cat happily posing outside a polling station in Buckinghamshire.

Stay tuned for more news………….