Research Matters: Focus on forest health

Posted on August 22, 2016

Visit our brand new Research Matters website to find out more about how researchers at the University of Pretoria are making today matter through projects that support pest management in our forests and plantations.

UP shines at SAIIE awards ceremony

Posted on August 18, 2016

The Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering (SAIIE) hosted their first awards ceremony and gala evening honouring outstanding industrial engineering professionals at Montecasino's La Toscana function venue at the end of July this year. Awards were presented in three categories and...

A fixture of student life provides opportunities for practical learning

Posted on August 18, 2016

The microbrewery on the University of Pretoria's Hatfield Campus provides students with an opportunity to learn important basic aspects of the brewing process and to gain valuable practical experience.

Innovation Camp successfully hosted by EBIT

Posted on August 17, 2016

The first Innovation Camp hosted by the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) and organised by the Department of Informatics was a huge success.

Official opening of the Tšwelopele Building on the Prinshof Campus

Posted on August 17, 2016

The newly built Tšwelopele Building on the Prinshof Campus of the University of Pretoria was officially opened by the Honourable Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, and the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of UP, Prof Cheryl de la Rey on Monday, 15 August 2016.

One of SA's most extensive ceramics collections housed in the Faculty of Humanities

Posted on August 17, 2016

The University of Pretoria curates and manages one of the most extensive ceramic collections in South Africa.

Why career counselling is more valuable now than ever before

Posted on August 15, 2016

The Conversation Africa's education editor Natasha Joseph, recently asked Professor Kobus Maree of the Department of Educational Psychology to explain how career counselling has changed and why it is so important.

Lecture on the health of sexual minorities presented at UP

Posted on August 15, 2016

Prof Theo Sandfort from Columbia University in New York, delivered a public lecture in the Merensky II Library Auditorium on the University of Pretoria's Hatfield Campus on Thursday, 4 August 2016. The topic of the lecture was 'The health of sexual minorities: theory, realities and further...