Department of Physics represents UP at MeerKAT inauguration

Posted on July 17, 2018

Prof Roger Deane from the Department of Physics represented UP at the launch of the MeerKAT radio telescope, inaugurated by Deputy President David Mabuza in the Northern Cape. Built and operated by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), the MeerKAT comprises 64 radio dishes, each...

UP academic, ‘a fighter against hunger'

Posted on July 13, 2018

Hunger is on the rise again worldwide, despite the rapid progress needed to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, which is to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Currently, one person in three is...

UP academics are category finalists in NSTF Awards

Posted on June 11, 2018

Profs Namrita Lall, Xiaohua Xia, Mmantsae Diale, Kevin Wall and the University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC), headed by Prof Tiaan de Jager are category finalists in this year’s prestigious National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards.

UP awarded a Nutrition and Food Security Chair

Posted on June 07, 2018

Prof Hettie Schönfeldt, Director of the African Research Universities Alliance Centre of Excellence for Food Security led by the University of Pretoria (UP), and an associate of the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Well-being, has won the bid for the first five-year cycle of the Department of...

SARChI Research Chair in Clean and Green Energy awarded to UP academic

Posted on June 05, 2018

Prof Mmantsae Moche Diale, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Pretoria (UP), and leader of the Solar Energy Collection and Conversion Research Group, has been awarded a prestigious Research Chair in Clean and Green Energy by the National Research Foundation (NRF).

Sustainability: 'we all have to learn from each other'

Posted on June 04, 2018

Prof Howard Apsan, Director of Environmental, Health, Safety and Risk Management at The City University of New York, recently delivered a guest lecture on ‘Community and sustainability’, at the University of Pretoria’s Sustainable Development Goals Lecture Series.

MultiChoice and UP partner to foster technology talent in South Africa

Posted on May 29, 2018

MultiChoice South Africa and the University of Pretoria (UP) have announced a partnership, intended to develop and sustain scarce Artificial Intelligence, and specifically Machine Learning technology skills in South Africa. This partnership will see MultiChoice sponsoring a Research Chair in...

First ever SARChI NRF Chair awarded to Faculty of Veterinary Science

Posted on May 24, 2018

A SARChI Research Chair has been awarded to Prof Celia Abolnik of the Faculty of Veterinary Science. This is the first Chair relevant to veterinary science to be awarded in the history of the Faculty.