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  • Three UP students awarded Mandela Rhodes scholarships

    Posted on December 15, 2015

    The Mandela Rhodes Foundation recently announced the names of the 12th cohort of Mandela Rhodes scholars, who will make up the ‘Class of 2016’. Three students from the University of Pretoria are among those selected to be part of this elite group of students.

  • New strategies for talking to the public about climate change

    Posted on December 14, 2015

    In a time of worrying discoveries about the state of our planet's climate, new research on emotive communication offers new avenues to effect behaviour change in favour of mitigating climate change.

  • Ancient giants reveal the realities of climate change

    Posted on December 03, 2015

    When a giant baobab toppled over in the Pafuri area of the Kruger National Park a number of years ago, researchers from UP had a hunch that the fallen giant could give them access to a wealth of information about the past.

  • When the going gets tough, TuksLaw alumnus gets going

    Posted on December 03, 2015

    TuksLaw alumnus Thompson Chengeta was born in Shurugwi, a small town in Zimbabwe. After the death of his father, Thompson had little hope for his future. Against all odds, he did not use his fate and misfortune as a hindrance to achieving success and was determined to change his status from...

  • UP Business Management student receives Mandela Rhodes Scholarship

    Posted on November 30, 2015

    Ms Natasha Ashley, a BCom Business Management student, has been awarded a Mandela Rhodes Scholarship for 2016 to complete her master’s degree in business management. She completed her honours degree with distinction this year.

  • A combo of AmaTuks and TuksLaw = great and healthy legal minds

    Posted on November 27, 2015

    An article in the Junior Tukkie of November 2015 highlights the fact that two TuksLaw students have displayed great determination, self-discipline and motivation to excel both on the sports field and in the classroom, as LLB degrees were conferred during the UP Spring Graduation in October 2015...

  • UP student named Global Community Champion for women's economic empowerment

    Posted on November 25, 2015

    Ms Olipa Phiri, a master's student in Development Studies in the Department of Anthropology and Archeology at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been named as one of 72 new Global Champions for women's economic empowerment.

  • UP professor nominated to participate in national ECD Working Group meeting

    Posted on November 19, 2015

    Prof Ina Joubert from the Department of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria (UP) was nominated to participate in the national Early Childhood Development (ECD) Working Group meeting.

  • Life Orientation teachers and career counsellors visit Tuks

    Posted on November 18, 2015

    There was a buzz of energy when Life Orientation teachers and career counsellors representing schools in Gauteng, Ekurhuleni, Mpumalanga and Limpopo visited the University of Pretoria (UP) on Thursday, 5 November 2015. The JuniorTukkie* Office of the Department of Enrolment and Student...

  • Empowering communities to beat malaria

    Posted on November 17, 2015

    Dr Taneshka Kruger, from the UP CSMC is very passionate about eliminating malaria in South Africa, and eventually in Africa as a whole and has been involved in research on the subject for a number of years.

  • Help for pets suffering from noise phobia

    Posted on November 04, 2015

    Dr Quixie Sonntag, veterinarian and animal behaviourist at UP's Faculty of Veterinary Science, advises pet owners to pay attention to signs that their pet may suffer from noise phobia.

  • Fighting breast cancer in the laboratory

    Posted on November 02, 2015

    Prof Annie Joubert and her team at UP are committed to finding novel treatments that target cancer cells specifically, while causing the least possible amount of discomfort to the patient.

  • Water therapy makes dogs more mobile

    Posted on October 27, 2015

    The Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Pretoria offers a rehabilitation service that helps animals immobilised by injury, disease or post-operative restrictions to regain as much mobility as possible.

  • Data Science is the way of the future

    Posted on October 14, 2015

    Prof Russ Taylor, a leader in the field of radio astronomy who is closely involved with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, visited the University of Pretoria on Monday and delivered a lecture on the SKA project and the data challenges it poses.

  • JuniorTukkie prepares learners for Tukkie life

    Posted on October 12, 2015

    On Saturday, 3 October 2015, 185 excited Grade 12 learners arrived at the Hatfield Campus to register for the Junior Tukkie Office's seventh Grade 12 Preparation Conference.

  • JuniorTukkie and Publications Team shine at SA Publication Forum Award Ceremony

    Posted on October 03, 2015

    The JuniorTukkie Office and the Publication Team in the Department: Enrolment and Student Administration received no less than eleven awards at this year’s SA Publication Forum Award Ceremony that was held at the Premier Hotel in Kempton Park on 1 October 2015.

  • THE ranks UP amongst the top global Universities

    Posted on October 01, 2015

    The University of Pretoria (UP) has been included in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. UP's inclusion in the rankings was announced today (1 October) at the University of Melbourne in Australia at the THE World Academic Summit.

  • Turn it down!

    Posted on September 29, 2015

    Prof Bart Vinck and his research group from UP's Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology have done extensive research on the effect that exposure to recreational noise has on hearing loss in young people.

  • EBIT paper wins IEEE Africon 2015 Conference Best Paper Award

    Posted on September 29, 2015

    Prof Sunil Maharaj, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT), and one of his students, Mr Pandelani Munyai, won the Best Paper Award at the 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Africon Conference.

  • Helping people with disabilities to spread their wings

    Posted on September 10, 2015

    UP's FOFA Project is the first of its kind in Africa and aims to help people with little or no functional speech to spread their wings and develop to their full potential.

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