The University of Cape Coast (UCC) lived up to its ‘host and win’ mantra to emerge winners with 18 gold, 18 silver and 17 bronze medals at the just ended 28th edition of Ghana Universities Sports Association (GUSA 2024) Games held in Cape Coast.

This is the first time in ten years that a university has hosted and won the games.

The University picked up seven trophies from basketball (male and female), hockey (female), netball (female), volleyball (male and female) and tennis (male).

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) School of Nursing and Midwifery has hosted nursing students from Salisbury University, USA, as part of efforts to enhance academic partnerships and promote cross-cultural collaboration in healthcare education. 

The students will seek practical exposure on Ghana Health Systems.

The visit also seeks to equip the foreign students with basic knowledge to enable them to appreciate their field of study and the interaction with students and faculty of the UCC.

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) TAGDev 2.0 Programme has held a two-day workshop to discuss the development and review of essential educational policies to ensure students' success and improve overall academic outcomes.

The University of Cape Coast is collaborating with Huawei Technologies to introduce smart campus solutions to enhance teaching, research and extension services.

To this end, Huawei Technologies will work with the University to provide customised design solutions, as well as data integration, scenario integration, infrastructure, training, and maintenance services, through world-class project management solutions.

The newly-appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Prof. Denis Aheto, has paid a day’s visit to familiarize and formally introduce himself to some administrative Directors of the University.

Prof. Aheto, who was accompanied by the Director of Public Affairs, Major Kofi Baah Bentum (rtd), visited the Directorates of Human Resource, Public Affairs, Information and Communication Services, Consular and General Services, and the Legal Office.

The Cape Coast branch of the Pope John Old Boys Association (POJOBA) has congratulated Prof. Denis Worlanyo Aheto on his recent appointment as Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast.

According to the group, Prof. Aheto, who is an old student of the School and for that matter a member of the association, by his elevation deserved every bit of commendation for making himself and POJOBAs across the world proud.

The Department of Crop Science of the School of Agriculture at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has released four new yellow-fleshed cassava varieties. 

The varieties, Hewale Duade, Adom bankye, Taah bankye and Atsike gbeli, were developed through a collaborative effort between the BINARI-GAEC and International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.

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A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Good Neighbors Ghana, has presented 50,000 tablets of Praziquantel valued at $5,750 to the Biomedical and Clinical Research Centre of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to support the treatment of Schistosomiasis in communities within the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly.

This gesture follows earlier interactions between Good Neighbors and the Centre, during which the two organisations engaged with communities relying on the Kakum River as a water source.