Posted on September 12, 2019
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) spring graduation calendar brought something special as former member of the UP executive Professor Antony Melck returned to campus to celebrate the academic achievements of his loved ones.
Posted on September 12, 2019
Have you ever read a book that was so profound that it knocked your socks off? Have you ever read a book that was so mind-altering that you experienced an existentialist crisis? And have you ever read a book that turned your worldview upside down and inside out?
Posted on September 10, 2019
Meet Thabang Manamela who has just graduated with an LLB degree from the University of Pretoria, despite the hardships he endured. Manamela was born in Ga-Mashashane, Limpopo, with glaucoma, which resulted in him losing his eyesight at an early age.
Posted on September 10, 2019
The University of Pretoria (UP), in partnership with Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE), the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and other stakeholders, recently hosted a Student Entrepreneurship Week (SEW) at UP’s Hatfield Campus.
Posted on September 09, 2019
University of Pretoria (UP) astrophysicist, Professor Roger Deane is a part of a consortium of scientists that has won the prestigious 2020 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics, for giving the world the first image of a black hole in April this year.
Posted on September 06, 2019
It was a double celebration in the Kolo household when husband and wife Francis and Agatha graduated from the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science this week with PhDs in Veterinary Science.
Posted on September 04, 2019
Two University of Pretoria (UP) veterinarians saved the life of a 5.5-ton elephant at Poznan Zoo in Poland, by performing a surgical extraction of his damaged tusk. Ninio, an African elephant, suffered a severe infection in July after a crack appeared at the bottom of his right tusk.
Posted on September 03, 2019
At UP, students admitted to the ECPs on the Mamelodi Campus attend lectures there for the first year of their studies. Upon performing successfully, they can transfer to their preferred study programme
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