Research News

  • 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.

  • UP hosts the South Africa-Sweden University Forum

    Posted on May 23, 2018

    The first seminar of the South Africa-Sweden University Forum (SASUF) was hosted by the University of Pretoria at its Groenkloof Campus. This was part of SASUF’s Research and Innovation Week which included over 30 different seminar sessions in 12 South African cities.

  • Three NSTF Award nominees for Faculty of Health Sciences

    Posted on April 19, 2018

    The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Health Sciences has three staff members who are accepted nominees in the highly acclaimed National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards 2017/2018.

  • UP appoints Director for International Partnerships

    Posted on April 18, 2018

    Prof Frans Swanepoel, Fellow in Residence at the Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, has been appointed as Director: Strategic International Partnerships effective 1 March 2018.

  • A first for South Africa

    Posted on April 16, 2018

    Ms Takalani Makhanṱhisa, who will soon be commencing her MSc studies in Medical Entomology at the University of Pretoria (UP), was recently awarded the Dr Sylvia Meek Scholarship for Entomology during a ceremony at UP.

  • Making water management a priority

    Posted on April 04, 2018

    In recent years, both the Western and Southern regions of Africa have suffered widespread droughts.

  • ’Life would be tragic if it weren't funny’ – Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)

    Posted on March 15, 2018

    Stephen Hawking was one of those rare scientists whose communicative approach to theoretical physics helped to shape the popular understanding of the complex theories of relativity and the idea that black holes emit radiation.

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