Students develop an app for Tshwane Homelessness Forum

Posted on April 17, 2020

Two students, David de Villiers and Kian Strydom, who are enrolled in Community-based learning (code: JCP), a compulsory course of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, have assisted PEN NGO shelters and communities across Tshwane by developing an app for use...

COVID-19: UP research group sets up databank to empower experts and citizens with accurate info

Posted on April 09, 2020

A research group based at the University of Pretoria (UP) is playing its part in disseminating factual information about the novel coronavirus that the world is currently in the grip of by setting up a databank that offers users real-time updates about COVID-19.

UP Chemical Engineering joins fight against COVID-19 with hand sanitisers for paediatricians at Steve Boko Academic Hospital

Posted on April 06, 2020

A University of Pretoria chemical engineering student who has started a project to donate hand sanitiser to paediatricians at Steve Biko Academic Hospital has shown how in difficult times such as these, community needs can be addressed by creating team-based solutions enabling those with the...

Don’t miss this online lecture for rock mechanics on 30 March 2020

Posted on March 26, 2020

This is the ideal time for members of the rock mechanics community to take advantage of the opportunity presented by the South African Institute of Rock Engineering (SANIRE) on 30 March 2020 to watch Prof Francois Malan deliver the 29th Online Lecture of the International Society for Rock...

Department of Mining Engineering launches new postgraduate bursary initiative

Posted on March 26, 2020

The Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Pretoria, in partnership with African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), launched the African Rainbow Minerals Postgraduate Bursary Initiative on 3 March 2020.

The global rise of artificial intelligence holds both promise and danger, and Africa needs its own experts to balance the two

Posted on March 18, 2020

Ada sounds and probes like a counsellor, doctor, or a friend. But she is actually a mobile application that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to track symptoms to get to the probable cause of an ailment.

University of Pretoria commemorates 100 years of trans-African flight and re-installation of flight monument

Posted on March 16, 2020

Two crashed planes, 109 flying hours and 45 days. This is what it took Lieutenant Colonel Pierre van Ryneveld and Captain Quentin Brand to write history by completing the first flight from London to Cape Town on 19 March 1920.

Society 5.0: Humans in the digital world by Prof Alta van de Merwe

Posted on March 05, 2020

Welcome to Society 5.0, where cyberspace and physical space collide, and information overload, fake news and social media addiction are commonplace digital problems.