Research yields interesting results about acute lower respiratory infections and HIV in children

Posted on February 10, 2016

Dr Salome Abbott has been collaborating with an international team of researchers to gather comprehensive data on the viral workings of acute lower respiratory infections among HIV-infected children in South Africa.

Key information on Zika virus and South Africa

Posted on February 05, 2016

Prof Leo Braack from the Zoonoses Research Unit and the Department of Medical Virology at UP, says that South Africans should be made aware that, in terms of Zika virus, there is no cause for panic in this country.

Research aims to bring human agency back to the environmental crisis

Posted on February 03, 2016

UP's recently established African Observatory for Environmental Humanities promotes the notion of ‘earth keeping’ and positions itself at the intersection of indigenous value systems and modernity.

Rethinking 'Apartheid's Golden Age': South Africa, circa 1966-1979

Posted on February 01, 2016

On 20 June 2016, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria will host a colloquium on South Africa's 'long 1970s', defined as the period stretching from the death of Hendrik Verwoerd (1966) to the Soweto uprising and its aftermath.

Students shine at SASREG Conference

Posted on February 01, 2016

Students from the Reproductive Biology Laboratory (RBL) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Pretoria (UP) received five of the seven awards in the national research category at the national conference of the Southern African Society of Reproductive Medicine and...

Teachers are key to solving SA schools' maths woes

Posted on February 01, 2016

Dr Sonja van Putten from UP's Department of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, says that SA's poor rankings in terms of mathematics education is largely due to a shortage of specialist mathematics teachers.

UP engineering student among Green Talents Awardees

Posted on January 25, 2016

Mr Mohammad Moghimi Ardekani, a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP), was among the 27 Green Talents Awardees for 2015.

The science behind hail

Posted on January 04, 2016

Parts of the country were subjected to severe hailstorms towards the end of last year and hailstones the size of tennis balls inflicted massive damage. Dr Liesl Dyson explains the science behind this weather phenomenon.