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  • University of Pretoria launches Course for Managers in Risk Management

    Posted on March 04, 2020

    While South Africa is known for its diverse wealth of minerals, coupled with a well-regulated mining industry, a primary concern for the industry as a whole is to keep mining-related casualties to a minimum. In an endeavor to support the industry to achieve its objective of zero-harm, the...

  • Huawei awards R1.1 million in bursaries to UP Engineering and ICT students

    Posted on February 21, 2020

    Huawei Technologies South Africa has once again invested in students from the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment and Information Technology by awarding them bursaries at a recent ceremony that was attended by Huawei executives and staff from...

  • Mining Indaba 2020

    Posted on February 15, 2020

    The annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, the world’s largest mining investment event, took place in Cape Town from 3 to 6 February 2020. The final day of the event included a Young Leaders Programme, which featured, among other topics, a discussion forum on the future of careers in...

  • Top international award for Mining Engineering research paper

    Posted on January 29, 2020

    The Society of Mining Professors (SOMP), an international society that represents mining academics all over the world, has selected the research paper of Prof Ronny Webber-Youngman (Head of the Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Pretoria) and Dr Johann Uys (senior lecturer in...

  • CODATA-RDA Research Data Summer School

    Posted on January 27, 2020

    The University of Pretoria’s Department of Information Science in collaboration with the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA), South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) and Network of Data and Information Curation Communities (NeDICC) presented a...

  • Murray & Roberts Chair in Industry Leadership 4.0 launched in Department of Mining Engineering

    Posted on January 20, 2020

    The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria launched its 19th industry chair, which is also the third research chair in the Department of Mining Engineering, on 25 November 2019, the Murray and Roberts Chair in Industry Leadership 4.0.

  • UP’s Dr Vukosi Marivate: Using data to better understand our world

    Posted on January 17, 2020

    Dr Vukosi Marivate is the ABSA Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria and co-founder of the Deep Learning Indaba. He spoke to Primarashni Gower about his work.

  • University of Pretoria’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering ranked number one in South Africa

    Posted on January 13, 2020

    The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering has been ranked number one in South Africa by the Minerals Education Trust Fund (METF) for 2019.

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