Posted on August 22, 2017
'Leadership in the mineral sciences industry' was the main topic at the 3rd Career and Leadership Conference of the Young Professionals Council (YPC), organised by the student societies of the University of Pretoria's departments of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering and Mining...
Posted on August 21, 2017
Prof Roula Inglesi-Lotz, an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria, was named the Distinguished Young Woman Researcher in the Humanities and Social Sciences category at the Department of Science and Technology (DST)'s annual Women in Science Awards on 17...
Posted on August 21, 2017
Ms Shruti Lall received the Bronze Medal of the Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science at Kya Rosa on the University of Pretoria's Hatfield Campus on Monday, 14 August 2017.
Posted on August 21, 2017
Employers are looking for qualities in their new hires that are seldom listed in the job advert. In a nutshell, they want to meet people who are self-directed and responsible. How will you demonstrate these skills during the interview?
Posted on August 17, 2017
Prof Henning Melber, an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, writes about the African middle class in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on August 16, 2017
Residents of Pretoria woke up to a new landmark on Monday morning after seven massive beams, each 33,55 m in length and weighing 71 tons, were installed over the weekend to construct a bridge across Lynnwood Road.
Posted on August 15, 2017
Dr Nasima Carrim from the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria received the best paper award in the management/talent and knowledge management track the Eighth Academic Research Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Sciences, which took...
Posted on August 15, 2017
Prof Mike Sathekge, an internationally acclaimed researcher and current Head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria, has been admitted as a fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore.
Posted on August 15, 2017
Pierre Brouard, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender at the University of Pretoria, writes about the link between substance use and gender-based violence in the tertiary environment.
Posted on August 14, 2017
The Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, takes note of media reports and images circulating on social media, suggesting that the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Mduduzi Manana, has recently been involved in a case of assaulting a woman in a public...
Posted on August 14, 2017
This year's UP representatives to the South Africa – Washington International Programme (SAWIP) recently returned to South Africa after spending six weeks of the seven-month leadership development programme in Washington DC to gain professional and cultural work exposure.
Posted on August 11, 2017
Prof André Ganswindt, a behavioural endocrinologist by training and the founder of the Endocrine Research Laboratory was appointed as Professor and Director of the Mammal Research Institute (MRI) at the University of Pretoria from 1 August 2017.
Posted on August 11, 2017
Molatelo Thebe, a master's student in metallurgical engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria, has been awarded the Ivan Ogilvie Scholarship by the...
Posted on August 11, 2017
At the University of Pretoria we aim to produce graduates who are agile, who understand how the workplace functions and who can see how their skills fit into it.
Posted on August 10, 2017
Murunwa Madzinga, a master's student in Medicinal Plant Science at the University of Pretoria, recently won first prize for a poster presentation at the 2017 Indigenous Plant Use Forum (IPUF) conference.
Posted on August 10, 2017
The Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria recently signed a technical cooperation agreement with African Men for Sexual Health and Rights (AMSHeR), establishing a framework for concrete collaboration on a number of activities.
Posted on August 08, 2017
As part of its centenary celebrations, the Faculty of Theology, in collaboration with UP Arts, recently held a concert and a banquet hosted by the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Cheryl de la Rey. Prof David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity (Emeritus) at the...
Posted on August 08, 2017
On 9 August South Africans commemorate the historic march of 20 000 women to the Union Buildings in protest against the discriminatory pass laws of the time.
Posted on August 08, 2017
Prof Charles Ngwena from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, writes about what Women's Day means to him by drawing on the past in remembrance of Saartjie Baartman and the place of memory.
Posted on August 07, 2017
Yolanda Booyzen, Communications and Marketing Manager of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, writes about the controversies surrounding breastfeeding.
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