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  • Model enables risk predictions for avian flu

    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.

  • Enterprises UP celebrates Cell C Take a Girl Child to Work Day

    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.

  • Livestock protein supplement of the future

    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.

  • #TuksNetball: Lenize Potgieter on balancing academics and netball

    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.

  • UP ISMC expands research links into Asia

    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.

  • Vice Chancellor and Principal's Youth Day Message

    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.

  • Avanade 15 for 15 Scholarship opens up a world of opportunities

    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.

  • UP's MakerSpace hosts Manufacturing Systems module award ceremony

    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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