Posted on November 18, 2016
At the age of 80, Mr Ivor Evans, who recently attended the Construction Procurement short course presented by Enterprises UP, is a great advocate for life-long learning and the benefits of continuing education no matter your age.
Posted on November 17, 2016
Prof Cheryl de la Rey, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria and Mr Nkululeko Poya, Chief Executive Officer of the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR), signed a memorandum of agreement for the sponsorship of the RSR Chair in Railway Safety on 14 November 2016.
Posted on November 16, 2016
Ms Katelyn Faulkner and Prof Mark Robertson from the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pretoria, developed a model to prioritise inspections aimed at preventing biological invasions.
Posted on November 16, 2016
Enterprises UP collaborated with the Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority in identifying four service providers as partners for its 2016 Supplier Development Programme.
Posted on November 14, 2016
Prof Danny Bradlow, SARChI Professor of International Development Law at the University of Pretoria, writes about the recent Trump victory in the United States and what this could mean for Africa in an article published on The Conversation.
Posted on November 14, 2016
Paul Ssali, a Mechanical Engineering student in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria, was ranked among the top ten students in South Africa during the Gradstar awards ceremony.
Posted on November 11, 2016
Prof Birgit Kuschke, from the Department of Private Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, was invited to serve as one of only 15 principle members of the International Drafting Committee of the universal Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law, under the auspices of the...
Posted on November 11, 2016
Prof Jan Dietz, a visiting academic who is internationally renowned for his development of the Design and Engineering Methodology for Organisations (DEMO) and his work on enterprise ontology, presented a public lecture to staff, students and industry partners of the Department of Industrial and...
Posted on November 11, 2016
Prof Frans Swanepoel, recently appointed as Professor: Future Africa at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, was recognised for his significant contributions to capacity development in support of agricultural transformation and development in Africa during the 5th African Higher...
Posted on November 10, 2016
Prof Laurie Nathan, Director of the Centre for Mediation in Africa in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, has been awarded a visiting professorship at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame in the United States.
Posted on November 10, 2016
The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology hosted a workshop titled 'SKA: IDIA - Big Data and Data Science research opportunities at the University of Pretoria' in October 2016.
Posted on November 09, 2016
The Facial Cleft Deformity Clinic in the Department of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery at the University of Pretoria is the largest facial cleft clinic in Africa and has treated more than 4 300 patients over the last 33 years.
Posted on November 09, 2016
Professor Tahir Pillay, Head of the Department of Chemical Pathology and the Division of Clinical Pathology at the University of Pretoria, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Pathology with effect from January 2017.
Posted on November 09, 2016
The University of Pretoria is proud to announce that the top 100 South African students who received GradStar awards in 2016 included an impressive 31 UP students, which was unmatched by any other university in South Africa.
Posted on November 07, 2016
The Ideas Lab workshops will be a core part of the Future Africa initiative's aim to develop interdisciplinary research teams and networks between UP researchers and researchers in Africa and beyond. The first 'scoping' meeting was held at the University in October, focusing on African...
Posted on November 07, 2016
At the University of Pretoria, we believe that the solutions to global problems can be found in the research we do today. Visit Research Matters to find out how UP researchers are making today matter with projects to combat malaria.
Posted on November 07, 2016
The UK Financial Times has again placed the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in pole position.
Posted on November 07, 2016
The Royal Society of South Africa has awarded the 2017 Meiring Naude Medal to Dr Heinrich Badenhorst, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on November 04, 2016
Prof Magnus Killander, Head of Research at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, discusses South Africa's withdrawel from the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court (ICC) in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on November 04, 2016
A dynamic young lecturer from the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Pretoria, Dr Michelle Greve, was recently selected as a Young Affiliate of the World Academy of Sciences Regional Office for sub-Saharan Africa (TWAS ROSSA).
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