Posted on April 22, 2016
Azile Nkabinde, an academic trainee and until recently a student in the Chartered Accountant Programme at the University of Pretoria, is the first ever Thuthuka student who had completed the programme to subsequently pass SAICA’s Initial Test of Competence with honours and end among the top...
Posted on April 22, 2016
In an attempt to promote and increase the use of medicinal maggots for wound cleaning in South Africa, the Department of Surgery at UP signed a collaboration agreement with Inqaba Biotech earlier this month.
Posted on April 21, 2016
The JuniorTukkie Office, which forms part of the Department of Enrolment and Student Administration at the University of Pretoria, hosted an information session for Gauteng schools' Grade 9 learners, their life orientation teachers and their parents on Saturday, 16 April 2016.
Posted on April 21, 2016
The MRC/UP CSMC and the Goodbye Malaria Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of collaborating on research towards the elimination of malaria in southern Mozambique and South Africa.
Posted on April 21, 2016
Prof Mageshen Naidoo was appointed as an Associate Professor and Director for Jazz Studies in the Department of Music at the University of Pretoria in November last year.
Posted on April 20, 2016
The Department of Library Services has officially launched its new library management system, OCLC WorldShare Management Services.
Posted on April 19, 2016
For her PhD research, Dr Nokuthula Vilakazi chose to investigate the possibility of using locally produced grains to develop a nutritious, ready-to-eat meal comparable to some of the so-called superfoods sold in shops.
Posted on April 19, 2016
An article by Prof Christi van der Westhuizen, Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Pretoria, in which she discusses the re-imagining of Afrikaner identity in a post-apartheid world, appeared in The Conversation in March this year.
Posted on April 18, 2016
Two former University of Pretoria (UP) students, Tyler Hoffman and Unathi Chonco, have launched an app for public transport navigation which they believe will change public transport in South Africa.
Posted on April 18, 2016
'Perseverance overcomes failure and turns the extraordinary achievement into great success.' These words certainly apply to Carley Lomax, a visually impaired student at the University of Pretoria (UP), who graduated with an MA degree in Recreation and Sport Management at the University's Autumn...
Posted on April 15, 2016
A foundation essay by Prof Henning Melber, Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria that was recently published on The Conversation.
Posted on April 14, 2016
A debut volume with contributions from theology students received the 2016 Desmond Tutu-Gerrit Brand Prize.
Posted on April 13, 2016
Kathryn Arnold, a BScHons (Geoinformatics) student in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria, won the Esri Young Scholar Award for her third-year project titled, 'A GIS-based response time and risk analysis of municipal firefighting services in...
Posted on April 13, 2016
Four students from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, along with their lecturer and mentor Dr Olufemi Adetunji, have been selected to represent UP and South Africa in the Netherlands during the final...
Posted on April 12, 2016
A team of researchers from UP, in collaboration with various partners, recently discovered the first evidence of Antarctic blue whales off the west coast of South Africa since they were nearly hunted to extinction in the last century.
Posted on April 12, 2016
In celebration of World Social Work Day, which was celebrated on 15 March this year, the Department of Social Work and Criminology hosted a seminar at the University of Pretoria's Hatfield Campus.
Posted on April 11, 2016
Distinguished visiting scholar, Prof Catherine Campbell presented a public lecture at the Hatfield Campus of the University of Pretoria on Thursday, 17 March 2016, titled, 'Against "human rights": a blunt tool for community mobilisation in highly marginalised settings?'.
Posted on April 11, 2016
The Department of Community Dentistry has initiated several community outreach projects that focus on preventing common oral diseases and promoting oral health education, especially in less affluent communities.
Posted on April 08, 2016
Mr Moses Kebalepile, a PhD student in the Faculty of Health Sciences has invented a medical diagnostic instrument that will bring peace of mind to asthma sufferers and their primary caregivers.
Posted on April 08, 2016
Ms Kgadi Mathabathe, from the Department of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, has been chosen by the Embassy of the United States to participate in the 2016 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.
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