Posted on June 09, 2021
UP engineering graduate Gerdus van der Laarse headed up UP’s Engineers Without Borders in 2020 and was involved with Moja Gabedi project. He shares what he learnt and his insights on Youth Month.
Posted on June 09, 2021
Warmer weather makes feeding time much easier, and more effective, for honeybees, according to Professor Sue Nicolson of the University of Pretoria (UP) and colleagues from various Chinese universities, who made this discovery after analysing several high-speed videos. The results were published...
Posted on June 08, 2021
The Enterprises UP plan supports the goal for a national animal traceability system with the capacity to enhance our ability to protect animal health, support the swift containment of serious animal diseases and address food safety issues.
Posted on June 08, 2021
Internationally known South African artist Angus Taylor has built two massive sculptures with the help of students and community members at Moja Gabedi, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) growing community engagement project.
Posted on June 08, 2021
The agreement aims to confirm a history of collaboration between the institutions through academic exchange, further developing academic and scientific relationships, and providing support for collaborative research.
Posted on June 07, 2021
The partnership between UP and the NSG is in response to a call from the NSG for partnerships with higher education institutions to provide various education, training, and development functions.
Posted on June 07, 2021
“A complete paradigm shift around food safety is required for Africa.” – Austin Pinkerton of UP’s Political Sciences Department on why low-income nations bear the brunt of food-borne risks.
Posted on June 05, 2021
UP BA Law graduate Oarabile Mashigo decided to hone and monetise his blanket-making skills and start a business to raise funds, which led to him teaching other young people how to do the same.
Posted on June 04, 2021
A team from UP’s Department of Civil Engineering used the Department’s unique smAvo and smaTo sensor platforms to monitor the transportation by cargo ship of a consignment of avocados destined for The Netherlands.
Posted on June 03, 2021
Congratulations to the eight UP academics and the University’s science centre, Sci-Enza, for being selected as finalists in the 2020/2021 National Science and Technology Forum’s NSTF-South32 Awards.
Posted on June 03, 2021
The Department of Education Innovation describes what it took for UP to achieve an almost seamless transition to online learning at the start of the COVID-19 crisis.
Posted on June 02, 2021
The partnership between the institutions is currently facilitated by the Alliance for African Partnership.
Posted on May 31, 2021
The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at UP and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study co-hosted a virtual centenary commemoration of the Bulhoek Massacre of 1921.
Posted on May 30, 2021
18-year-old whizz-kid Hjalmar Rall, who registered as a UP student when he was 14, recently graduated cum laude with a BSc Honours Degree in Physics.
Posted on May 30, 2021
TuksSport Director Steven Ball takes us behind the scenes on the extensive planning that went into the hosting of this year’s @varsitycup in a secure ‘bio-bubble’.
Posted on May 28, 2021
The surgery, which will enable the filly to return to racing in three months’ time, is one of several breakthroughs by UP veterinary specialists in recent months.
Posted on May 27, 2021
Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, billionaire business magnate Aliko Mohammed Dangote, and “father of African literature” Chinua Achebe won the inaugural African Genius Awards, proudly hosted by UP.
Posted on May 27, 2021
Mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is higher in African countries than reported from studies done in Asia, Europe, North America and South America. This is according to the findings of a study that was conducted by a team of African researchers, including experts from the...
Posted on May 26, 2021
Nine top-performing UP graduates have been awarded the Vice‐Chancellor and Principal's medal for their consistently excellent performance through their undergraduate studies.
Posted on May 25, 2021
UP's Prof Wanda Markotter is one of 26 global experts chosen to provide science-based advice to the One Health High-Level Expert Panel, a UN initiative.
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