Posted on August 25, 2023
This Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts shares a message with young women aspiring to pursue higher education.
Posted on August 23, 2023
Creating sporting opportunities for women with disabilities can help achieve the global goals of gender equality by empowering them to acquire skills, says Director of UP’s Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Prof Juan Bornman.
Posted on August 21, 2023
The UP School of the Arts cordially invites you to our annual Music Festival.
Posted on August 18, 2023
UP has been ranked number two in South Africa and Africa in the highly cited researchers' category of the 2023 Shanghai Ranking. Overall, the university ranked number three in the country and fourth in Africa.
Posted on August 15, 2023
UP’s high-tech business incubator, TuksNovation, is ranked 44th on the WURI Industrial Application ranking, while UP is ranked 101-200 in the WURI Global Top 100 Innovative Universities. UP is the only South African university ranked in the 2023 WURI.
Posted on August 11, 2023
“Women deal with systemic violence daily and then go on to interact with greater care, compassion, vision and humanity when in positions of power or leadership,” say UP’s Dr Quraysha Ismail Sooliman & Dr Nomusa Mlondo of the Mpumalanga government.
Posted on August 08, 2023
Nestled on the Groenkloof Campus of the University of Pretoria, UP Bindery provides top-tier binding services catering to UP staff, esteemed students, academic departments and discerning private clients alike.
Posted on July 26, 2023
This issue features research from all of the University of Pretoria's nine faculties and our business school, the Gordan Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and shows how our research is opening a new world and a better future.
Posted on July 25, 2023
The conference drew 320 delegates from 43 countries who attended numerous meetings, seminars, presentations, lectures, discussions and more at various venues on the University of Pretoria’s Hatfield Campus.
Posted on July 24, 2023
Giving Matters is a three-year fundraising campaign aimed at raising R100 million by 2024 to supplement UP’s day-to-day fundraising projects which offer financial assistance to “missing middle” students.
Posted on July 20, 2023
Research by the University of Pretoria (UP) has demonstrated the importance of community policing forums in fighting crime in high-risk environments, such as in Johannesburg.
Posted on July 14, 2023
A CRITICAL call for clean energy and reimagined leadership in South Africa’s vulnerable climates.
Posted on June 28, 2023
UP is ranked number one in South Africa in three of the nine indicators: Employer Reputation (155 in the world), International Research Networks (26), and Sustainability (158).
Posted on June 23, 2023
Dr Giorgio Miescher’s ‘De Aar: Lines of Architecture in the Making of a South African Town (1902–1977)’ unpacks the history of the town once known as the second most important railway junction in South Africa.
Posted on June 19, 2023
UP-DHHS's Prof. Karen Harris reflects on the role of tourism in intercultural competence at an international tourism conference.
Posted on June 15, 2023
“It is impossible to overstate the significance of this collection. Recorded South African history is overwhelmingly white and colonialist, and this collection goes some way to correct this imbalance,” said Nikki Haw, of UP’s Department of Library Services.
Posted on June 15, 2023
War and armed conflict has cost hundreds of millions of lives since the first civilisations. In his latest publication, Afterburn: War Stories (2023), Dr Stephen Symons confronts this subject of conflict through a grassroots approach without romanticising the horrific act of war. By portraying...
Posted on June 01, 2023
UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe congratulated the UP community on achieving remarkable milestones. “Once again UP has proved to be one of the leading universities not only in Africa but also in the world for impact towards the SDGs,” he said.
Posted on May 15, 2023
On Tuesday, 9 May ESI Press and the Faculty of Humanities launched Edwin Smith’s second collection of poems, Umalusi (The Shepherd). The collection, which consists of 32 poems written in both Xhosa and English, is an ode to Smith’s mother who passed away on the 9th of May in 2010....
Posted on May 15, 2023
UP recently conferred an honorary doctorate on Nelson Mandela Foundation archivist Dr Verne Sheldon Harris who highlights the work of archive as “work that reaches insistently for the just society of our dreams”.
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