University of Cape Coast

27 Sep

2024 World University Rankings: UCC Remains Best University In Ghana, 1st In West Africa

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The University of Cape Coast has maintained the first spot as the best university in Ghana and West Africa. That’s according to the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In the 2022 and 2023 rankings, the university earned the bragging rights as the best university in Ghana, the best in West Africa, the 4th best university in Africa, and the best university globally for research influence. In the 2024 ranking, released moments ago, the university has still been ranked as the best university in Ghana and West Africa and slipped marginally from the 4th position in Africa to the…

10 Feb

UCC Lecturer Receives $30k Google Research Grant For Artificial Intelligence

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A lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cape Coast has received a Google research grant of $30,000 to continue research in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The award was granted to Dr Stephen Moore, who is also a co-founder of Ghana Natural Language Processing (Ghana NLP), to accelerate research in natural language processing (NLP) in low-resource languages in Ghana and Africa. Natural Language Processing is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is focused on how computers can process languages as humans do. Since 2020, Dr Moore and his colleagues at Ghana NLP have been developing tools for…