Research News

  • Pilot Seminar on UP’s Sustainable Development Goals a success

    Posted on May 02, 2018

    Professor Stephanie Burton, Vice-Principal for Research and Postgraduate Education at the University of Pretoria (UP), recently hosted the first of a series of planned seminars on “The Sustainable Development Goals and UP’s response”.

  • Record year for UP Faculty of Law

    Posted on April 26, 2018

    In many ways, the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria experienced a remarkably successful year in 2017. The Faculty conferred no less than 35 doctorates in law and 179 master’s degrees in law at the three graduation ceremonies in September and December 2017 and April 2018, held for...

  • Ready to beat Malaria

    Posted on April 25, 2018

    Malaria is a vicious disease that is Africa’s leading cause of death among children under the age of five. Millions of people in Africa are infected with it and 90% of the world’s reported cases occur on the continent.

  • Three NSTF Award nominees for Faculty of Health Sciences

    Posted on April 19, 2018

    The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Health Sciences has three staff members who are accepted nominees in the highly acclaimed National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards 2017/2018.

  • UP appoints Director for International Partnerships

    Posted on April 18, 2018

    Prof Frans Swanepoel, Fellow in Residence at the Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, has been appointed as Director: Strategic International Partnerships effective 1 March 2018.

  • Finding food coping strategies in your back garden

    Posted on April 17, 2018

    Up to 70% of households in rural settlements across South Africa are food insecure. Food insecurity inevitably leads to malnutrition, stunting, poor development and decreased academic ability in children, as well as obesity, chronic diseases and mental health disorders in adults.

  • A first for South Africa

    Posted on April 16, 2018

    Ms Takalani Makhanṱhisa, who will soon be commencing her MSc studies in Medical Entomology at the University of Pretoria (UP), was recently awarded the Dr Sylvia Meek Scholarship for Entomology during a ceremony at UP.

  • FEATURING - Election 2014 South Africa: the Campaigns, Results & Future Prospects by C. Schulz-Herzenberg & R. Southhall

    Posted on April 16, 2018

    Library Special Collections Book of the Week (16 April, 2018) Election 2014 South Africa.

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