Posted on December 12, 2020
In 2020, we watched Black Lives Matter protests unfold across the world as a reaction to police brutality in the USA. Researchers at the Faculty of Law were instrumental in drafting the UN standards on the use of force by police.
Posted on December 11, 2020
Nobel Prize Outreach and the University of Pretoria (UP) are pleased to announce that UP will host the first Nobel Prize Dialogue to be held in Africa, on 18 and 19 May 2021.
Posted on December 10, 2020
The Information Design programme in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria (UP) has won several awards at the 2020 Loeries. Masego Panyane (MP) caught up with course lecturer Kyle Rath (KR) to hear about the award-winning projects, the course and the students.
Posted on December 09, 2020
The vision for the podcast is “to provide scientific, evidence-based information to students on how they can enhance their mental health and well-being in a simple, understandable and user-friendly way.
Posted on December 08, 2020
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at UP recently entered into a momentous three-year renewable memorandum of understanding with the new International Law Institute-South African Centre for Excellence.
Posted on December 08, 2020
Reigning Miss South Africa Shudufhadzo Musida, a University of Pretoria (UP) alumna, recently visited UP’s Future Africa institute and campus at the invitation of Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe, who hosted a luncheon and discussion in honour of her crowning achievement.
Posted on December 07, 2020
UP academic Professor Daniël Christiaan de Wet Swanepoel has been awarded the African Academy of Sciences’ science prize for his innovative research in tele-health and mobile health, specifically in the field of audiology.
Posted on December 07, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) has played an instrumental role in supporting the drafting of General Comment 37 (2020) of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee, which offers global guidance on peaceful assembly.
Posted on December 07, 2020
The intersectionality of gender inequality and disability further perpetuates endemic violence against women with disabilities.
Posted on December 07, 2020
The large numbers of southern right whales that usually visit the South African coast have been in dramatic decline since 2010. Research conducted by the University of Pretoria (UP) has shown that many lack the energy to do so and that female whales are calving less often.
Posted on December 04, 2020
An engineering team at UP has pioneered an underground procedure which tests the performance of collision-avoidance systems in an effort to improve the safety of workers on mines by reducing unwanted interaction between vehicles and pedestrians.
Posted on December 04, 2020
LaToya Seoke, a PhD student in the Faculty of Veterinary Science’s Department of Production Animal Studies, was recently selected as one of only 20 women researchers to receive the Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talent Award for academic excellence.
Posted on December 03, 2020
UP's Centre for Human Rights hosted by the Democracy and Civic engagement Unit in partnership with the Democracy Development Program, under the umbrella of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) CSO Forum, recently hosted a dialogue to engage young Africans on matters related to Africa’s politics...
Posted on December 03, 2020
On Friday, 21 November 2020, the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) entered into a momentous three-year renewable Memorandum of Understanding with the new International Law Institute (ILI) South African Centre for Excellence (refer to PDF attachment for more information on...
Posted on December 02, 2020
For those of us who work within the sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) sector, there is a sense of something close to ritualism as we approach the final months of every year
Posted on December 02, 2020
Dr Hossein Masoumi Karakani, who was awarded a PhD in Mathematical Statistics by the University of Pretoria (UP) in 2020, recently finished 129th out of 2 618 teams (including single-member “teams”, like Dr Karani’s) registered globally when he took part in a Kaggle competition....
Posted on December 01, 2020
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that final-year LLB student Nicholas Herd officially received the National Yunus Mahomed Public Interest Award (YMPIA) for Law/Business/Ethics during a recent virtual event that included a panel discussion.
Posted on December 01, 2020
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria recently hosted a virtual screening of a collection of short films researched, produced, scripted, edited and narrated by the 2020 cohort of history honours students. In a first for the Department, it also hosted the...
Posted on December 01, 2020
Professor Patricia Forbes, incumbent of the Rand Water Chemistry Research Chair in the Department of Chemistry at UP, was not only recently elected to the Professional Standards Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry, she has also been made a Fellow of the South African Chemical Institute.
Posted on November 30, 2020
On Monday 30, November, the University of Pretoria (UP) officially opened its state-of-the-art Engineering 4.0 facility, which focuses on research on smart transport, cities and infrastructure.
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