FARC student wins best poster at International Symposium on Morphological Sciences for honours research study

Posted on May 15, 2024

Helena de Villiers won Best Poster Presentation at the 2023 ISMS for her research

University of Pretoria setting up facility for the 3D-printing of bone and organ replicas

Posted on March 02, 2022

UP is setting up a comprehensive facility to help other departments in the Health Sciences Faculty with the 3D-printing of replicas of bones and organs, and more.

UP’s own ‘Bones’ and MakerSpace hopes to print replicas of human bones in 3D

Posted on June 27, 2020

The University of Pretoria’s own ‘Bones’, Professor Ericka Noelle L’Abbe, a forensic anthropologist and Director of UP’s Forensic Anthropology Research Centre in the Faculty of Health Sciences, is working with the Department of Library Services’ MakerSpace...

Forensic Anthropology Research Centre postdoctoral fellow to work with the International Committee of the Red Cross

Posted on July 25, 2018

The FARC congratulates Dr Dussault on accepting a position as Forensic Specialist with the ICRC.

Past and present stories of Africa

Posted on September 21, 2017

September is Heritage Month. In celebration of our continent and our country's rich history and heritage, we have published a new feature focussing on the past and present stories of Africa on the Research Matters website.

School builds capacity of African forensic science professionals

Posted on August 29, 2016

The first African School of Humanitarian Forensic Action, led by the International Committee of the Red Cross and Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, is currently being hosted at the University of Pretoria.

Research helps to identify South Africa’s lost children

Posted on June 08, 2015

The doctoral research of Dr Nanette Briers from the Forensic Anthropology Research Centre (FARC) at the University of Pretoria (UP) will help to identify the remains of unknown children found in South Africa.