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.
Posted on June 15, 2016
The Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, in association with the Embassy of Chile and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, recently hosted a seminar titled 'Unfinished transitions and uncertain futures: Chile - South Africa' on UP's Hatfield Campus.
Posted on June 15, 2016
The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria congratulates Prof Christof Heyns on receiving the prestigious Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award from the Advocates for Human Rights (AHR) on the evening of 1 June 2016 in Minneapolis.
Posted on June 15, 2016
Recognising that Asia faces many of the same challenges as Africa with regard to vector control, the UP ISMC's Prof Leo Braack recently spent time working with malaria specialists and entomologists in Myanmar.
Posted on June 15, 2016
This week, we commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Soweto uprising in protest against inferior education and by extension the entire system of race-based oppression then dominant in South Africa.
Posted on June 14, 2016
The University of Pretoria Youth Choir toured Canada from 16 April to 3 May 2016. During the tour, they received high praise for the quality of their performances, their work ethic and their general conduct.
Posted on June 13, 2016
Enterprises University of Pretoria is currently involved with a project to provide formal training for members of the Tshwane Metro Police Department Ceremonial Unit.
Posted on June 13, 2016
Ms Sharné Werner, a second year Financial Science student at the University of Pretoria, is one of the University's five recipients of Avanade's 15 for 15 Scholarship.
Posted on June 13, 2016
On Tuesday, 31 May 2016, the Department of Library Services' MakerSpace, in collaboration with the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, hosted an award ceremony for Manufacturing Systems (MVS311), a third-year Industrial Engineering module.
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