Posted on June 28, 2017
Seven researchers at the University of Pretoria (UP) have been nominated in eight categories of the 19th NSTF-South32 Awards for their outstanding contributions to science, engineering, technology and innovation in South Africa.
Posted on June 28, 2017
The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences celebrated the excellent research and teaching and learning achievements of academic staff members at the prestigious annual EMS Awards Function, which was held on 21 June 2017.
Posted on June 27, 2017
The first Samsung e-Learning for the 21st-century Educator training session was launched in Pretoria on Monday, 5 June 2017.
Posted on June 27, 2017
Lungelo Mandyoli, who completed his MSc degree in Biochemistry at the University of Pretoria's Department of Biochemistry in 2016, has been selected as a fellow of the Fulbright Scholarship - the flagship foreign exchange programme for the US - to complete his PhD in biochemistry at Texas A&M...
Posted on June 26, 2017
Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti, a full professor of Political Economy and founding director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria, discusses how jobs can be created in the age of robots and low growth in an article that recently appeared on The...
Posted on June 26, 2017
Dr Andre van der Vyver from the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria (UP), who is also a USAID contracted and world renowned warehouse receipt expert, was instrumental in the introduction of a modern, sophisticated process by which...
Posted on June 26, 2017
Professor Frans Swanepoel from the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, discusses the possibilities that science offers for the future of farming and food security in Africa.
Posted on June 23, 2017
The Department of UP Arts recently formally handed over Phase 1 of the Tshwane Heritage Report to the Executive Director of Culture, Libraries and Heritage Services, Mrs Ntuthu Sipambo, as part of a collaborative heritage project between the University of Pretoria and the City of Tshwane.
Posted on June 23, 2017
Over the last few years, the Department of African Languages has been distributing African language dictionaries to schools. Thus far, with sponsorship assistance from the African Association for Lexicography (Afrilex), the Department has distributed dictionaries in Sepedi, Setswana and...
Posted on June 22, 2017
Prof Henning Melber, an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria and the author of The Rise of Africa's Middle Class, writes about the state of democracy in southern Africa in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on June 22, 2017
The University of Pretoria (UP) has become a partner in the TROPICSAFE project, an initiative to fight three economically important bacterial diseases of citrus plants, grapevines and palms.
Posted on June 22, 2017
Nineteen-year-old University of Pretoria graduate Quintine Mkhondo was a guest speaker at the Youth Day commemoration event titled 'My challenges made me stronger!' that was presented by the Department of Library Services in the Merensky 2 Library on the Hatfield Campus earlier this month.
Posted on June 21, 2017
Ms Sarah Skorpen, a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Pretoria, was the joint winner of the Innovation in Concrete category at the Fulton Awards 2017 for her work on the Van Zyl Spruit bridge.
Posted on June 20, 2017
Prof Martin Schwellnus, Director of the Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute at the University of Pretoria is the recipient of the 2017 American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM) International Clinical Scholar Award.
Posted on June 20, 2017
For many students, winter is spent fighting the icy cold. Tuks FM, in collaboration with the University of Pretoria (UP), aims to bring warmth to these students by donating blankets, food, clothing and much-needed funds.
Posted on June 19, 2017
It might sound strange at first to hear of a professor in human oral pathology who researches animals, but Prof Erich Raubenheimer has spent over a quarter of a century studying the great African Elephant.
Posted on June 19, 2017
Just five years ago, the annual Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Youth Survey highlighted a society that was upbeat about the future and their career prospects. Back then, 74% of learners felt SA was a good place to have a successful career. In 2017, just 53% of respondents said they...
Posted on June 14, 2017
It is with great regret that the University of Pretoria (UP) learned of the death of formidable wordsmith and UP alumnus, Dr PG du Plessis on Wednesday, 7 June 2017. Du Plessis was an Afrikaans writer, dramatist and academic, who enriched the South African literary scene through a wide variety of...
Posted on June 14, 2017
As we reflect on how far South Africa has come since June 1976, I have been heartened by the can-do spirit with which South Africans everywhere have worked towards an equitable future over the past quarter-century.
Posted on June 13, 2017
Prof Christi van der Westhuizen, an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria, explains why Helen Zille is wrong about colonialism.
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