Posted on July 04, 2016
UP Campus Tours (UPCT) will soon be sporting newly branded gear while offering its professional tours on Campus, thanks to a sponsorship by Enterprises University of Pretoria.
Posted on July 04, 2016
Prof Chrisna du Plessis, Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pretoria, has been appointed as the 2016 Jubilee Professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Posted on July 04, 2016
In celebration of the 40th anniversary beginning of the Soweto uprising on 16 June 1976, Daniel Rankadi Mosako of UPArts Museums collaborated with the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History to share art skills with 45 artists and art learners from the City of Tshwane metropolitan area, to...
Posted on July 01, 2016
This opinion piece by Prof Christi van der Westhuizen titled, Anti-democratic element in student movements holds warnings for South Africa, recently appeared on The Conversation Africa.
Posted on July 01, 2016
Enterprises University of Pretoria's Research Solutions recently hosted a business breakfast that focused on their total value chain service offering to support SMMEs throughout their entire lifecycle.
Posted on July 01, 2016
Professor Ann Skelton, Director of the Centre for Child Law at the University of Pretoria, has been elected to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Posted on July 01, 2016
Prof Dave Berger from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria, has been awarded the Special Award in Crop Science and Food Security at the 2015/2016 National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards.
Posted on June 30, 2016
The UPYC's musical production, Naledi, an African journey aims to instill in our youth pride in their African heritage, background, language and race, and to act as a baseline for our identity as South Africans.
Posted on June 30, 2016
Prof De Wet Swanepoel, professor of Audiology at the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at the University of Pretoria, was awarded the S2A3 British Association Medal for his contributions to the use of technology and connectivity to fight hearing impairment.
Posted on June 28, 2016
A lecturer in Mathematical Statistics in the day, an oboist at night. These are just two of the facets of the multi-talented Johan Ferreira of the Department of Statistics at the University of Pretoria who was named one of the Mail & Guardian top 200 young South Africans 2016.
Posted on June 27, 2016
Prof Christof Heyns, former Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Pretoria (UP), was nominated by the South African Government as its candidate to the prestigious 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee in March 2016, and was...
Posted on June 24, 2016
Most countries are not well prepared to cope with a possible avian influenza pandemic. Dr Folorunso Oludayo Fasina from the Faculty of Veterinary Science has developed a risk model to limit the spread of this disease.
Posted on June 23, 2016
The University of Pretoria recently hosted the 2016 Kapuscinski Development Lecture, named in honour of the late Polish journalist and author Ryszard Kapuściński. The 80 Kupuscinski lectures presented since 2009 were attended by more than 25 000 participants.
Posted on June 23, 2016
The Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at the University of Pretoria recently received two KUDUwave™ mobile audiometers from biomedical technology company, eMoyo.
Posted on June 22, 2016
Enterprises University of Pretoria (Enterprises UP) recently hosted 13 girls from Phatheng Comprehensive School in Mamelodi at the Enterprise Building in support of the 2016 Cell C Take a Girl Child to Work campaign.
Posted on June 22, 2016
The quality of students enrolled in the Phytomedicine Programme offered by the Department of Paraclinical Sciences in the Faculty of Veterinary Science was recently highlighted when three PhD students, Drs Olubukola Adenubi and Abimbola Aro, and Ms Bellonah Sakong, received prestigious research...
Posted on June 21, 2016
Prof Jenny Hoobler, Acting Head of the Department of Human Resource Management, has been invited to join the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal, the top empirical journal in the field of management internationally.
Posted on June 21, 2016
Ms Nina Parry, a master's student in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at UP, is investigating the use of fly maggots to reduce organic waste and to process these maggots into a protein for livestock and farmed fish.
Posted on June 20, 2016
The Department of Public Law recently hosted a ceremony at the University of Pretoria's Mining Industry Study Centre to welcome the 2016 Class of the newly introduced 'LLM in Extractive Industry Law in Africa', which falls under the auspices of the Faculty of Law.
Posted on June 17, 2016
On Friday, 3 June 2016, the annual TuksAlumni Business Breakfast was held at the University of Pretoria Conference Centre on the Hatfield Campus. The guest speaker was former Constitutional Court judge, Justice Johann van der Westhuizen.
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