Posted on June 03, 2021
The Department of Mining Engineering in the University’s Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, which is celebrating its diamond jubilee in 2021, has played a significant role in developing the mining industry in South Africa through the delivery of...
Posted on June 03, 2021
Masakhane Natural Language Processing research project led by UP’s Dr Marivate was a joint winner of the inaugural Wikimedia Foundation Research Award for work which will reshape digital usability of African languages.
Posted on June 03, 2021
The University of Pretoria’s state-of-the-art Engineering 4.0 building in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, which was launched on the Innovation Africa @ UP Campus in Hillcrest on 30 November 2020, has been recognised for its innovative excellence by...
Posted on May 27, 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
Numerous repellent-based products, such as creams, roll-ons and sprays, are available on the market for outdoor protection. Most of these have a very short period of protection – a few hours. People need to be protected from mosquito bites for longer.
Posted on May 21, 2021
Professor and incumbent of the Rand Water and Sedibeng Water Research Chairs in Water Utilisation Engineering, Prof Evans Chirwa, from Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT), University of Pretoria has been elected by the board as a...
Posted on May 21, 2021
Congratulations to Tshepo Freddy Masike and Thembelihle Mnguni, two students in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at UP’s EBIT faculty, who have received a bursary from Control Techniques.
Posted on May 20, 2021
Nicol Verheem obtained a degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Pretoria and has since been honoured by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Scientifi c and Technical Awards (Sci-Tech) category.
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...
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.
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...
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...
Posted on April 20, 2021
Prof VSS Yadavalli Receives B-Rating at NRF
Posted on April 15, 2021
We are sad to announce the passing of Louis Heyl
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...
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...
Posted on April 01, 2021
Dr Hanlie Smuts is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on April 01, 2021
Retirement of Mrs Anne-Marie van Heerden
Posted on March 15, 2021
The latest edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2021, which ranks science, mathematics and technology courses from seven local universities, compared to the best in the world, has placed mineral and mining engineering at the University of Pretoria in 48th position.
Posted on March 10, 2021
Thanks to Exxaro, one of the top five coal producers in South Africa and a constituent of the JSE’s Top 40 index, and the initiative and hard work of Prof. Ronny Webber-Youngman and Mr Jannie Maritz from the Department of Mining Engineering, as well as Mr Koos de Beer from the Department of...
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