Posted on July 19, 2022
UP’s Faculty of Theology and Religion has launched a book titled ‘Old Ways of Being to New Ways of Seeing’, which reflects on discrimination issues in society and on university campuses.
Posted on July 18, 2022
Tiara Joseph is one of 18 students from 20 South African universities to win this prestigious bursary, part of the legacy of Abe Bailey (1864-1940), who was a Rand mining magnate and a provincial cricketer.
Posted on July 18, 2022
Professor Philip Stevens of the Department of Public Law recently delivered his inaugural lecture, presenting the topic ‘Criminal Law in the Wake of Science – Can Neuroscience Inform the Criminal Law? Medico-Legal Perspectives from South Africa’.
Posted on July 04, 2022
Professor Teresa Pidduck and Sumarie Swanepoel predicted the case’s eventual outcome in a paper titled ‘Sobering up in South Africa: The Sin Tax Consequences of a Pandemic’ and published in December 2021.
Posted on July 01, 2022
“We need to change agriculture from a way of life to a business enterprise that is profitable,” said Dr Ayodele Odusola, UNDP representative, at the recent UP-hosted book launch.
Posted on July 01, 2022
Two teams from UP’s Department for Education Innovation have won international Anthology Catalyst Awards for innovation and excellence in using technology for student success and optimising the student experience.
Posted on June 30, 2022
President Cyril Ramaphosa has congratulated Reverend Professor Jerry Pillay, Dean of UP’s Faculty of Theology and Religion, on his election as general secretary of the World Council of Churches.
Posted on June 29, 2022
World Refugee Day is a United Nations-designated occasion that is observed annually on 20 June to highlight the lives and challenges faced by refugees, and to urge the global community to stand in solidarity with them.
Posted on June 27, 2022
Is monkeypox highly contagious? Prof Veronica Ueckermann from the Department of Internal Medicine at UP answers this and other questions you might have about the disease after a case was confirmed in South Africa.
Posted on June 27, 2022
A UP-led team is using the momentum of light to trap particles. This optical trap has been used with collaborators to demonstrate a hidden property in light that remains unchanged even when it passes through turbulence.
Posted on June 23, 2022
Professor Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem, Head of the Department of Philosophy at UP, presented on AI for environmental sustainability, zooming in on UNESCO’s Global Recommendations on the Ethics of AI.
Posted on June 22, 2022
Key stakeholders in biodiversity finance discussed government initiatives across Southern Africa to improve investment into biodiversity, and also showcased innovative approaches to biodiversity finance globally at the Congress.
Posted on June 22, 2022
Prof Nelishia Pillay has been appointed to chair the Women in Computational Intelligence (WCI) subcommittee of the global Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computational Intelligence Society (CIS).
Posted on June 21, 2022
The SRI Congress is a joint initiative of Future Earth and the Belmont Forum and is being held both onsite and online from June 20-24, and is hosted by the Future Africa Institute at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on June 21, 2022
“We are proud of all the recipients and look forward to their contribution to strengthening the higher education landscape and making a difference in society,” said Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe.
Posted on June 21, 2022
Congratulations to Dr Marivate for being awarded the GoogleAI Research Scholar for 2022 for his work on the investigation into the consolidation of learnings of language models and language tools for South African languages and beyond.
Posted on June 14, 2022
“The hallmark of Rafael Nadal’s game has been that of a master matador with the ferociousness of a prowling tiger and a never-say-die attitude,” writes Prof Adekeye Adebajo, UP Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, about the Spanish tennis giant.
Posted on June 14, 2022
When Hera, a 20-month-old crossbreed Labrador/pitbull visited the sterilisation clinic at UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science, the vets there discovered a heart murmur that led to heart surgery that likely saved her life.
Posted on June 09, 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!
Posted on June 07, 2022
‘The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets and Philosophers’, a collection of essays authored by 37 African, Afro-Caribbean and African-American scholars, and edited by UP’s Prof Adekeye Adebajo, details the roots and routes of Pan-Africanism.
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