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.
Posted on June 10, 2016
As part of the recent Take a girl to work day initiative, 15 female learners had the opportunity to visit the Faculty of Veterinary Science, made possible by collaboration between the Faculty and the Office of the Speaker in the City of Tshwane.
Posted on June 07, 2016
According to the popular press it was more likely in 2015 for a person to die while taking a selfie than to be killed by a shark - this is globally.
Posted on June 06, 2016
The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria recently held their fourth autonomous robot vehicle (ARV) race in the Amphitheatre on the Hatfield Campus.
Posted on June 03, 2016
The establishment of the University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC) was approved by the UP Senate on Thursday, 2 June 2016.
Posted on June 03, 2016
On 25 May 2016, the Centre for Human Rights celebrated Africa Day, as well as the 20th anniversary of the Constitution, as part of a series of events commemorating the Centre's establishment 30 years ago, in May 1986.
Posted on May 31, 2016
National Child Protection Week provides an opportunity for duty bearers and civil society to reflect on our progress in creating a more just society by putting children first.
Posted on May 30, 2016
According to Dr Yusuf Abdullah, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pretoria, a large variety of insects are relatively easy to grow and are highly nutritious as well.
Posted on May 25, 2016
A partnership between the South African Council for Shopping Centres and the Department of Construction Economics at the University of Pretoria, has resulted in the founding of a Chair in Shopping Centre Studies.
Posted on May 24, 2016
A group of drama students from UP recently had the opportunity to perform an educational play on malaria at two rural primary schools in HaMakuya, a village in the Vhembe District of Limpopo.
Posted on May 23, 2016
The Nelson Mandela Foundation, in association with the University of Pretoria, is delighted to announce that Bill Gates will deliver the 14th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on 17 July 2016, the eve of Mandela Day.
Posted on May 23, 2016
The Department of Facilities Management at the University of Pretoria has built a dedicated rest area for guide dogs in the garden outside the Disability Unit's offices on the Hatfield Campus.
Posted on May 23, 2016
Ms Oratile Mokoto, a first-year Civil Engineering student at the University of Pretoria, recently became one of the first five UP recipients of an Avenade 15 for 15 Scholarship.
Posted on May 19, 2016
UP's Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being is involved in an international programme working towards bridging the gap between academia and the media by bringing them together to drive policy change in food security.
Posted on May 18, 2016
The Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria celebrated the academic achievements of its top students at its annual Outstanding Achievers Function earlier in May this year.
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