Award for African machine learning interface developed in collaboration with the University of Pretoria’s computer scientists

Posted on May 10, 2021

The Masakhane natural language processing (NLP) research project, an African machine translation web interface, has won the inaugural 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year. This system was developed by the Data Science for Social Impact (DSFSI) research group in the University of...

UP academics win big at SA Academy for Science and the Arts Awards

Posted on May 06, 2021

Congratulations to the 10 UP academics and researchers who won big at the recently announced Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and the Arts) annual awards.

Shortage of medicines and vulnerable supply chains in SA, Prof David Walwyn (SABC News, 20 April 2021)

Posted on April 21, 2021

The uneven availability of COVID-19 vaccines has become an increasingly urgent and vexatious issue. But managing the problem of what's been labelled "vaccine nationalism" is proving a hard nut to crack. Shortages of medicines and vulnerable supply chains for critical medicines are issues for...

EBIT HOSTS AN INNOVATIVE EBIT OPEN DAY

Posted on April 20, 2021

On Saturday, 17 April 2021, the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) at the University of Pretoria (UP) hosted an online EBIT Open Day to introduce its traditional EBIT Week, which has been a regular biannual event for more than 20 years. During this time...

Prof VSS Yadavalli Receives B-Rating at NRF

Posted on April 20, 2021

Prof VSS Yadavalli Receives B-Rating at NRF

Passing Away: Mr Louis Heyl

Posted on April 15, 2021

We are sad to announce the passing of Louis Heyl

UP's department of mining engineering celebrates its diamond jubilee

Posted on April 13, 2021

The Department of Mining Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to celebrate its diamond anniversary in 2021. With its history of 60 years of excellence in mining engineering education, the Department...

‘How we did it’ – UP EBIT and Theology Deans on how they cracked the QS World University Rankings’ global top 100

Posted on April 08, 2021

In the latest QS World University Rankings, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) has been named one of the top 50 places in the world to study minerals and mining engineering, while its Faculty of Theology and Religion...