Posted on August 08, 2016
Images and video clips that looked like scenes from the disaster movie Twister were all over social media a few weeks ago when unexpected tornadoes hit the Gauteng province.
Posted on August 05, 2016
Dr Cristiano d'Orsi, a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, discusses why barriers to a pan-African passport may be insurmountable.
Posted on August 05, 2016
From 25 to 29 July 2016, the Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Cheryl de la Rey attended the Association of Commonwealth Universities conference of university leaders in Accra, Ghana, where she was one of the plenary speakers.
Posted on August 04, 2016
The MA programme in African-European Cultural Relations is unique on the African continent and is, for the first time, programmatically challenging the perspectives of coloniser and colonised, north and south, from the perspective of critical cultural studies.
Posted on August 04, 2016
Enterprises UP, through the University of Pretoria's School of Public Management and Administration, was tasked with researching and drafting a curriculum for the Department of Education to use in primary school road safety education.
Posted on August 04, 2016
A new reality/documentary TV series on SABC 3 titled Frontier Vets, depicts the daily lives of six South African soon-to-be-qualified veterinary students from the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Veterinary Science.
Posted on August 02, 2016
Prof Robin Crewe, Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, has been appointed as co-chair of the committee established by the InterAcademy Council / InterAcademy Partnership for Research to consider 'harnessing science, engineering and medicine to...
Posted on August 02, 2016
The University is pleased to announce the re-appointment of Professor Elsabe Loots as Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences for a second term as from 1 August 2016.
Posted on August 01, 2016
The University of Pretoria's Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being is actively working with poor communities to turn the tide on hunger through various uplifting and innovative projects.
Posted on August 01, 2016
WATCH: Mr Roland Henwood from the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria explains what we can expect from the upcoming South African local government election.
Posted on August 01, 2016
Sameera Mohamed, a PhD student at the University of Pretoria, was recently honoured by the Geological Society of South Africa with the Corstorphine Medal.
Posted on July 29, 2016
An interest in the well-being of performers led Dr Clorinda Panebianco, a senior lecturer in the Department of Music, to undertake a study with professional ballet dancers to investigate the role of music in their experience of flow.
Posted on July 28, 2016
Prof Robert Pattinson, Director of the South African Medical Research Council's Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Unit in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Pretoria, has been awarded the Havenga Prize for Medicine by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir...
Posted on July 28, 2016
The University is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Nthabiseng Audrey Ogude as Dean of the Mamelodi Campus with effect from 4 August 2016.
Posted on July 28, 2016
On Monday, 18 July 2016, the Department of Music at the University of Pretoria celebrated the legacy of former President Nelson Mandela and observed International Mandela Day by donating a piano to Funanani Christian School in Mamelodi West.
Posted on July 27, 2016
An international Workshop and Summer School on 5G and Cognitive Radio Networks is being hosted by the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) at the University of Pretoria from 25 to 27 July.
Posted on July 27, 2016
In an article published on The Conversation Africa, Dr Nokuthula Vilakati from the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Well-being at UP, explained why the African food basket should be full of beans and other pulses.
Posted on July 27, 2016
As part of an outreach programme to create awareness about the plight of the bee, the Social Insect Research Group (SIRG) from the Department of Zoology and Entomology aka 'The Bee Group' visited the Grade 7 learners of Cornwall Hill College during their Natural Science lessons earlier this year.
Posted on July 26, 2016
Mrs Hajo Morallane and Mr Oluwafemi Joshua Dele-Ijagbulu, two PhD students in the Department of Business Management, received bursaries from the South African PhD Partnering Network for Inclusive Growth through Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SASIE Network).
Posted on July 26, 2016
The Centre for Contextual Ministry recently hosted its annual certificate ceremony in celebration of delegates who have successfully completed various courses during 2015 in collaboration with Enterprises UP at the Doxa Deo Brooklyn Campus.
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