Posted on March 09, 2022
Exciting refurbishments at UP Faculty of Health Sciences Medical Library
Posted on March 08, 2022
“It’s important to have Africans in general in the neurosciences, because the topic is complex, it’s not very easily translated into our context of living.” – Dr Coceka Mfundisi, first woman to graduate with a Masters in Neurosurgery from UP.
Posted on March 08, 2022
UP has come to the financial aid of a budding 14-year-old actuarial scientist who has begun her first year of study at the institution after passing matric with seven distinctions.
Posted on March 08, 2022
Today, 8 March, UP joins the global community in observing International Women’s Day and supports the global call to action to #BreakTheBias in all spheres of life.
Posted on March 08, 2022
Today’s biases against women in the workplace are subtler and harder to detect than in the past. Yet they impact women’s careers in real, detrimental ways. They strengthen the glass ceiling that constrains women from leadership roles.
Posted on March 07, 2022
The WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Deafness and Hearing Loss at UP recently observed World Hearing Day.
Posted on March 07, 2022
Our social contract has not been salvaged, neither by the state of the nation address nor by a national budget that could admittedly have been much worse had we not been granted a reprieve by our old faithful, the mining sector. The asymmetrical enforcement of the social contract violates the...
Posted on March 04, 2022
UP has signed an MoU with @MMEGGrants to continue its relationship with the US-based non-profit in assisting female postgraduate students with funds to further their studies.
Posted on March 04, 2022
Rabies is a frightening viral infection and the only infectious disease that carries a 100% mortality in any species (including humans) once clinical signs appear.
Posted on March 03, 2022
A multidisciplinary study led by two University of Pretoria (UP) researchers has found that Tshwane District hospitals were under immense pressure to provide clinical services in the face of an influx of paediatric patients (under 19 years old) during the early stages of the COVID-19 Omicron wave...
Posted on March 03, 2022
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) South Africa was officially launched on 2 March 2022 at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on March 02, 2022
UP is setting up a comprehensive facility to help other departments in the Health Sciences Faculty with the 3D-printing of replicas of bones and organs, and more.
Posted on March 01, 2022
In his March 2022 message, UP VC Prof Tawana Kupe says due to the improving COVID-19 situation, UP has been able to welcome some students back to campus and adds that he hopes the situation will keep improving and more students will be welcomed back.
Posted on March 01, 2022
The atmosphere was energetic as TUKS FM set the mood with a live broadcast from the Piazza and students engaged with various organisations and societies.
Posted on March 01, 2022
UP’s Mammal Research Institute Whale Unit and WWF South Africa are teaming up to support research on southern right whales in response to warming oceans and changes to ocean processes which are affecting the number of whales visiting SA's shores.
Posted on March 01, 2022
The rise in cases of lumpy skin disease in South Africa could have a severe economic impact, as the disease weakens livestock, permanently damages hides, and can lead to 10% more deaths and abortions, experts have warned.
Posted on March 01, 2022
Professor Nigel C Bennett, an internationally renowned researcher and an NRF A-rated scientist in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pretoria, has been awarded the prestigious JFW Herschel Medal by the Royal Society of South Africa.
Posted on February 28, 2022
The University of Pretoria (UP) has launched the Pan African Cancer Research Institute (PACRI) to transform the fight against cancer in Africa.
Posted on February 25, 2022
The University of Pretoria (UP) Senate recently held its annual conference under the theme ‘A Human-Centred University: Digital Transformation, the Future of Work and Society 5.0’.
Posted on February 25, 2022
Enterprises University of Pretoria (Enterprises UP) and its board of directors are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Elmar de Wet as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Enterprises UP, with effect from 1 April 2022. This follows Mr Deon Herbst’s forthcoming retirement after more than...
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