Posted on June 24, 2016
Most countries are not well prepared to cope with a possible avian influenza pandemic. Dr Folorunso Oludayo Fasina from the Faculty of Veterinary Science has developed a risk model to limit the spread of this disease.
Posted on June 22, 2016
Enterprises University of Pretoria (Enterprises UP) recently hosted 13 girls from Phatheng Comprehensive School in Mamelodi at the Enterprise Building in support of the 2016 Cell C Take a Girl Child to Work campaign.
Posted on June 21, 2016
Ms Nina Parry, a master's student in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at UP, is investigating the use of fly maggots to reduce organic waste and to process these maggots into a protein for livestock and farmed fish.
Posted on June 17, 2016
Known to her friends and family as Linny, Lenize Potgieter is not only a student at the University of Pretoria, she is also a professional netball player.
Posted on June 15, 2016
Recognising that Asia faces many of the same challenges as Africa with regard to vector control, the UP ISMC's Prof Leo Braack recently spent time working with malaria specialists and entomologists in Myanmar.
Posted on June 15, 2016
This week, we commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Soweto uprising in protest against inferior education and by extension the entire system of race-based oppression then dominant in South Africa.
Posted on June 13, 2016
Ms Sharné Werner, a second year Financial Science student at the University of Pretoria, is one of the University's five recipients of Avanade's 15 for 15 Scholarship.
Posted on June 13, 2016
On Tuesday, 31 May 2016, the Department of Library Services' MakerSpace, in collaboration with the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, hosted an award ceremony for Manufacturing Systems (MVS311), a third-year Industrial Engineering module.
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