Posted on December 07, 2020
The intersectionality of gender inequality and disability further perpetuates endemic violence against women with disabilities.
Posted on December 04, 2020
An engineering team at UP has pioneered an underground procedure which tests the performance of collision-avoidance systems in an effort to improve the safety of workers on mines by reducing unwanted interaction between vehicles and pedestrians.
Posted on December 03, 2020
UP's Centre for Human Rights hosted by the Democracy and Civic engagement Unit in partnership with the Democracy Development Program, under the umbrella of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) CSO Forum, recently hosted a dialogue to engage young Africans on matters related to Africa’s politics...
Posted on December 02, 2020
For those of us who work within the sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) sector, there is a sense of something close to ritualism as we approach the final months of every year
Posted on December 01, 2020
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that final-year LLB student Nicholas Herd officially received the National Yunus Mahomed Public Interest Award (YMPIA) for Law/Business/Ethics during a recent virtual event that included a panel discussion.
Posted on December 01, 2020
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria recently hosted a virtual screening of a collection of short films researched, produced, scripted, edited and narrated by the 2020 cohort of history honours students. In a first for the Department, it also hosted the...
Posted on December 01, 2020
Professor Patricia Forbes, incumbent of the Rand Water Chemistry Research Chair in the Department of Chemistry at UP, was not only recently elected to the Professional Standards Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry, she has also been made a Fellow of the South African Chemical Institute.
Posted on November 30, 2020
On Monday 30, November, the University of Pretoria (UP) officially opened its state-of-the-art Engineering 4.0 facility, which focuses on research on smart transport, cities and infrastructure.
Posted on November 30, 2020
The transition from student to employee can be daunting, and frequently there’s a lack of work-readiness and guidance, which can place young graduates at a disadvantage as they enter the world of work.
Posted on November 27, 2020
Organisations, interest groups and individuals are hereby invited to nominate three (3) candidates to serve on the Council of the University of Pretoria.
Posted on November 27, 2020
Gender-based violence is a term that constitutes various forms of abuse, and which could occur in teaching and learning spaces, workspaces, residences and public spaces, including at UP.
Posted on November 27, 2020
The Committee consists of 18 independent experts, who are nominated by their countries, and are voted in by a majority of the 196 states that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Posted on November 27, 2020
The Faculty of Humanities' Lauren Senna Fouché was jointly awarded the 2020 SATI student prize, a prestigious recognition for the most deserving full master’s dissertation dealing with translation, interpreting, text editing and related areas, including terminography and lexicography.
Posted on November 26, 2020
University of Pretoria (UP) Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe encourages staff and students to break the silence around gender-based violence through the #SpeakOutUP campaign.
Posted on November 26, 2020
Research by Dr Clarity Ropafadzo Mapengo, who recently graduated from UP has found that infrared energy can be used to make starch in foods like maize meal less digestible, thereby promoting satiety and potentially decreasing the risk and incidence of diabetes and obesity.
Posted on November 25, 2020
UP student Tanya Šafrová is calling on the UP community to heed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call to mourn the individuals who have lost their lives to COVID-19 and gender-based violence.
Posted on November 25, 2020
World’s Children Day on 20 November and Disability Awareness Month in November presented an opportune time to reflect on how the experience of COVID-19 has brought into greater light the urgent need to affirm, protect and realise the rights and well-being of children with disabilities.
Posted on November 24, 2020
Dr Chris Oosthuizen, an alumnus of UP’s Department of Zoology and Entomology and a research associate with UP’s Marion Island Marine Mammal Programme, was recently awarded the Population Ecology Young Author Award.
Posted on November 23, 2020
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies proudly hosted the screening of its first MA coursework short film on Wednesday, 18 November 2020.
Posted on November 20, 2020
What does your leader identity look like? To answer this question, UP's Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences hosted a webinar on the topic under the theme ‘The Importance of Trying on a Leader Identity’.
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