Posted on July 19, 2017
Dr Pulane Molokwane, a PhD graduate from the University of Pretoria (UP), was appointed to the Eskom Interim Board by Minister of Public Enterprises, Lynne Brown, on 23 June 2017.
Posted on July 19, 2017
University of Pretoria (UP) researchers are working with the poultry industry and the National Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to contain the current bird flu outbreak in South Africa.
Posted on July 19, 2017
Professor Lumkile Wiseman Nkuhlu was unanimously re-elected Chancellor of the University of Pretoria by the University's Electoral College on 28 June. This appointment is for a period of five years, until 30 June 2022.
Posted on July 18, 2017
Message from the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria on International Mandela Day 2017.
Posted on July 17, 2017
The University of Pretoria (UP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof Salomé Human-Vogel as the new Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Education with effect from 1 August 2017.
Posted on July 13, 2017
Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti from the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria, discusses the future of alternative currencies and why it matters for development.
Posted on July 12, 2017
TuksKlub 60+ is a club for senior alumni of the University of Pretoria. One of the highlights of the club activities is the yearly visit to the Kruger Park and some members have been doing this for the past 16 years!
Posted on July 11, 2017
Dr Adrian Tordiffe, from the Department of Paraclinical Sciences at UP, has been intrigued by diseases in captive cheetahs since his days working as a clinical veterinarian at the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa.
Posted on July 11, 2017
Professor of Leadership Studies Jonathan Gosling from the Business School at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, visited the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership in June 2017.
Posted on July 10, 2017
Enterprises University of Pretoria (Enterprises UP) and ABSA have launched a training intervention, the Advanced Programme in Debt Review (piloted in 2016), with a group of 23 delegates in the banking and credit provider industries successfully completing their training earlier in 2017.
Posted on July 06, 2017
A number of students from the University of Pretoria (UP) attended the annual Sustainability Week hosted by the City of Tshwane at the CSIR Convention Centre from 13–18 June 2017.
Posted on July 06, 2017
The Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA) Conference was officially opened by Prof Vasu Reddy, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria, on Tuesday, 4 July.
Posted on July 05, 2017
The Javett-UP, which is slowly taking shape on the Hatfield and South campuses, is set to become Africa's foremost art gallery and will exhibit art of the highest quality, with a specific focus on the art of Africa.
Posted on July 04, 2017
Over the last years, a detailed analysis of the environmental impacts of clay brick production and utilisation in South Africa was commissioned by the Clay Brick Association of South Africa and Swisscontact, co-funded by the National Research Foundation and conducted by the Department of...
Posted on July 03, 2017
Sacha Saddul, a third-year Information Design student, was selected as the University of Pretoria (UP)'s 'poster boy' for his poster titled Killer Fashion, which forms part of the Green Bauhaus Global Communication Project 2017.
Posted on July 03, 2017
The Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Pretoria is excited and proud to announce the approval by the Council for Higher Education of a three-year Bachelor of Veterinary Nursing degree. The new degree will eventually replace the current two-year Diploma in Veterinary Nursing.
Posted on June 30, 2017
Prof Christi van der Westhuizen, an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria and a fellow of the Democracy Works Foundation, writes about the state of South Africa's ruling party ahead of their policy conference, which starts today, in an article that was...
Posted on June 30, 2017
The voting phase in the election/appointment of Council members by the Convocation of the University of Pretoria commenced on 7 June 2017 and closed on 20 June 2017. A total of 1 242 Convocation members cast their votes, either electronically or manually.
Posted on June 30, 2017
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, in partnership with the Dutch Reformed Church, recently had the privilege of hosting the meeting of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches.
Posted on June 29, 2017
Melissa van der Merwe, a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at UP, did her Department proud at the recent International Food and Agribusiness Management Association Conference, by not only presenting results from her PhD in the academic track...
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