UPSpace ranked the top repository in Africa

Posted on January 31, 2017

Webometrics recently released the first edition of its repository rankings for 2017, in which it ranked UPSpace as the best in Africa and within the top 100 worldwide.

Three UP students excel at DST/NRF National Global Change Conference

Posted on January 30, 2017

Three students from the University of Pretoria were recognised for their excellent presentations at the third DST/NRF National Global Change Conference hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban in December 2016.

UP researchers unravel gene networks driving wood formation in trees

Posted on January 26, 2017

A team of researchers in the Department of Genetics at the University of Pretoria together with collaborators in Belgium, Canada and the USA, are reporting one of the first large-scale, integrated analyses of 10 000s of genes profiled in the developing wood of plantation trees.

UP Phd student scoops up local and international awards with innovative life-saving device

Posted on January 24, 2017

Mr Moses Kebalepile, a PhD student in the School of Health Systems and Public Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria, has walked away with top prizes in both the prestigious Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP) Innovation Competitions for 2016 and the International...

We need your help to inspire the scientists of tomorrow!

Posted on January 20, 2017

Cape Citizen Science, a project that enlists the help of the public to identify organisms that are killing some of the fynbos species in the Western Cape, has launched a crowd funding campaign to provide youth from a local township with an opportunity to spend a day learning and taking part in...

UP shines at ATKV/SA Academy Prizes for 2016

Posted on January 18, 2017

Four of the six articles published in Afrikaans scholarly journals in 2015 and which in 2016 were awarded prizes by the Afrikaans Language and Culture Association (ATKV) and the SA Academy for Science and Art in their annual competition, were authored by academics from the University of Pretoria.

Prof James Ogude appointed as Director: Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship

Posted on January 17, 2017

The University is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor James Ogude as the new Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) with effect from 1 January 2017.

Op-Ed: If Africa is serious about a free trade area it needs to act quickly and differently

Posted on January 13, 2017

In an article that recently appeared on The Conversation, Dr Chris Nshimbi, Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation at the University of Pretoria and a colleague from the University of South Africa writes that Africa needs to act quickly, and...