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  • Research Matters: Focus on food security

    Posted on August 10, 2016

    Visit our brand new Research Matters website to find out more about how researchers at the University of Pretoria are working with poor communities to turn the tide on hunger.

  • Tornadoes - powerful, but uncommon in SA

    Posted on August 08, 2016

    Images and video clips that looked like scenes from the disaster movie Twister were all over social media a few weeks ago when unexpected tornadoes hit the Gauteng province.

  • UP's Veterinary Science students star in new TV series

    Posted on August 04, 2016

    A new reality/documentary TV series on SABC 3 titled Frontier Vets, depicts the daily lives of six South African soon-to-be-qualified veterinary students from the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Veterinary Science.

  • Homegrown solutions for South Africa's hungry

    Posted on August 01, 2016

    The University of Pretoria's Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being is actively working with poor communities to turn the tide on hunger through various uplifting and innovative projects.

  • Research explores the role of music in ballet dancers' experience of flow

    Posted on July 29, 2016

    An interest in the well-being of performers led Dr Clorinda Panebianco, a senior lecturer in the Department of Music, to undertake a study with professional ballet dancers to investigate the role of music in their experience of flow.

  • Why the African food basket should be full of beans and other pulses

    Posted on July 27, 2016

    In an article published on The Conversation Africa, Dr Nokuthula Vilakati from the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Well-being at UP, explained why the African food basket should be full of beans and other pulses.

  • Message banking brings hope for persons with MND

    Posted on July 25, 2016

    Ms Imke Oosthuizen, a master's student at the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication at UP, recently conducted a study on message banking, a relatively new early intervention strategy for persons with MND.

  • Science Communication in the spotlight at UP

    Posted on July 21, 2016

    The University recently launched Research Matters, an exciting new website that showcases and highlights some of its research and innovation output and emphasises the impact of this work in South Africa, Africa and globally.

  • Mining Resilience Research Centre established at the University of Pretoria

    Posted on July 19, 2016

    The newly established Mining Resilience Research Centre at UP will focus on multi-disciplinary research activities in the mining industry and developing lasting partnerships with leading international role players.

  • Bill Gates delivers 14th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

    Posted on July 18, 2016

    Well known philanthropist and entrepreneur, Bill Gates, delivered the 2016 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at the University of Pretoria's Mamelodi Campus on Sunday, 17 July 2016.

  • UP collaborates to save the survivors

    Posted on July 15, 2016

    The Department of Paraclinical Sciences and various partners have initiated a project to determine how rearing conditions and environment affect orphaned rhinos' adaption to their natural habitat.

  • Muscle-building shakes don't always have as much protein as they claim to

    Posted on July 13, 2016

    A recent study by researchers at the University of Pretoria has found that when it comes to protein shakes, what is in the tub is not always what meets the eye.

  • Rhino research that matters at UP

    Posted on July 11, 2016

    Dr Cindy Harper and her team from UP's Veterinary Genetics Laboratory have developed a ground-breaking technique to collect and catalogue DNA from rhinos and rhino horns.

  • Welcome to the new genomics revolution!

    Posted on July 07, 2016

    According to Professor Don Cowen, Director of the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics and the Genomics Research Institute at the University of Pretoria, we are currently in the midst of a new scientific revolution.

  • JuniorTukkie Winter School for Grade 12 learners

    Posted on July 05, 2016

    The JuniorTukkie (JT) Office at the University of Pretoria hosted a Winter School for Grade 12 learners in Mathematics, Physical Science, Life Sciences and Accounting from Monday, 27 June to Friday, 1 July 2016 at the Hatfield Campus of the University of Pretoria.

  • Experts agree to enhanced international DNA testing of rhinos

    Posted on July 05, 2016

    The RhODIS system for profiling and indexing rhino DNA, developed by UP's Veterinary Genetics Laboratory and partners, could become the standard for producing DNA profiles that can be analysed and compared in a global database.

  • Celebrating Youth Month with art

    Posted on July 04, 2016

    In celebration of the 40th anniversary beginning of the Soweto uprising on 16 June 1976, Daniel Rankadi Mosako of UPArts Museums collaborated with the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History to share art skills with 45 artists and art learners from the City of Tshwane metropolitan area, to...

  • Johan Ferreira named one of SA Top 200 young South Africans

    Posted on June 28, 2016

    A lecturer in Mathematical Statistics in the day, an oboist at night. These are just two of the facets of the multi-talented Johan Ferreira of the Department of Statistics at the University of Pretoria who was named one of the Mail & Guardian top 200 young South Africans 2016.

  • 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.

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