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U.S. donors have taken part in funding a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and prizes. Here is a sample of the many projects actively funded through UCT Fund, Inc. by our generous U.S. based donors:
The Allan Cormack Memorial Book Fund
Established in 1998 in memory of UCT alumnus and Nobel Laureate, Allan McLeod Cormack, provides math and physics textbook grants for needy students at UCT. Read more…
Stella Clark Teachers Award
Stella Clark was a lecturer in language development in the Academic Development Programme, Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED), at the University of Cape Town from 1996 until her death in March 2005. Her husband, Associate Professor Kevin Naidoo, and children, Jesse and Eamonn, established the Stella Clark Teachers Award to honour her many years of dedicated service to teaching students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds in working class schools on the Cape Flats and at UCT.
Established through donations from family and friends and colleagues from South Africa, UK, USA and Japan, the fund honors the work of the many unrecognized teachers who go beyond the call of duty to provide excellent education in often difficult circumstances.
Annually, registered UCT students are invited to nominate secondary school teachers who have helped to make it possible for them to come to university. Usually they would nominate someone who has inspired them to pursue a particular path of study, or has opened up new intellectual paths for them.
The successful teacher receives a monetary award of R5000 and is expected to give a talk at an award ceremony; the school receives R1000 towards educational resources and the UCT staff member of student who nominates the successful teacher can choose either an ipod or R1500 cash equivalent.
Zook Fields Piano Prize
Under the direction of Professor Franklin Larey of the University of Cape Town’s School of Music.
