UP team wins second place in international climate solutions competition

Posted on October 12, 2022

A UP team has won second place in an international competition to find solutions to climate-related problems. ‘Team Tujenge’ developed a solar-powered water purification system using plasma technology to provide clean water to rural areas.

UP academic wins NSTF-Water Research Commission Award at ‘Science Oscars’

Posted on August 03, 2022

UP Academic Professor Evans Chirwa has won the NSTF-Water Research Commission Award at this year’s ‘Science Oscars’. Congratulations Professor Chirwa!

Nine UP academics nominated for NSTF/South32 Awards, SA’s ‘Science Oscars’

Posted on August 02, 2022

Earlier this month, the National Science and Technology Forum announced the finalists for this year’s NSTF-South32 Awards. UP congratulates and celebrates nine of our own researchers who have been nominated!

A Masters Student and a Doctoral Student Needed Urgently

Posted on April 28, 2022

There is an opportunity for a highly motivated doctoral student. The doctoral student will work on a plasma-based water research project funded by the Water Research Commission of South Africa under the guidance of Dr Samuel Iwarere (FLAIR Fellow) and Professor Michael Daramola based in the...

UP Chemical Engineering Postgraduate Students take top honours at IFAT Africa 2019 University Challenge

Posted on August 01, 2019

A team of three postgraduate students from the UP Chemical Engineering Department, Job Tendenedzai, Carla Horstmann, and Hester Oosthuizen won first place at the University Challenge of the Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Refuse and Recycling (IFAT 2019), while another team from the same department...

New improved mosquito traps developed in partnership between UP ISMC and private sector

Posted on September 26, 2017

The UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control is assisting in the design and testing of an innovative solar-powered trap to monitor mosquito populations, especially in areas where malaria and arboviruses require vector control.

Dr Heinrich Badenhorst receives prestigious Meiring Naude Medal

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.

Safripol supports polymer research at the University of Pretoria

Posted on August 29, 2016

Safripol has donated a Dr Collin laboratory cast film line and a Dr Collin laboratory blown film line to the Institute of Applied Materials in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria.