Posted on March 18, 2015
Dr Heike Lutermann of the Department of Zoology and Entomology has been studying the elephant shrew, a small mammal also known as the sengi, for several years.
Posted on March 17, 2015
The UP-Tuks rugby team secured a Varsity Cup home semi-final on Monday with their impressive 34-0 win against UJ in Johannesburg.
Posted on March 16, 2015
The ordinary question, ’How are you?’ has been given new meaning by students at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on March 16, 2015
The University of Pretoria, in partnership with the Global Young Academy and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, is pleased to announce the establishment of the Africa Science Leadership Program (ASLP).
Posted on March 13, 2015
A team consisting of amateur naturalists and students from the Department of Zoology and Entomology will attempt to record all living species within a designated area over a predetermined time period.
Posted on March 13, 2015
A collaborative team effort is needed to counter the increasing danger of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) in wildlife.
Posted on March 13, 2015
Beloved author and the subject of many academic enquiries, Sir Terry Pratchett, has died.
Posted on March 13, 2015
Dreams become inevitable when we commit to them and, perhaps equally important, when those around us also commit to them.
Posted on March 11, 2015
UP research has found that leopard survival rates in protected, as well as in non-protected areas, are low and that this is largely a result of human activities.
Posted on March 11, 2015
The Faculty of Humanities has launched three exciting new cross-disciplinary faculty research themes (FRTs) through which they hope to enhance research capacity and productivity in the Faculty, while contributing to the strengthening of the humanities as a discipline in South Africa.
Posted on March 11, 2015
The Department of Library Services hosted a presentation titled ‘Foes, follies and budgetary woes’, during which Dawie Roodt unpacked the Finance Minister Nhlanha Nene’s inaugural national Budget speech.
Posted on March 11, 2015
The University of Pretoria is proud to be the home of innovative young minds.
Posted on March 10, 2015
UP-Tuks 1’s inch-by-inch approach to the 2015 FNB Varsity Cup gathered momentum on Monday with a record 68-8 win against Minnows CUT.
Posted on March 06, 2015
Since the construction of new power capacity has been racked by delays and is unlikely to contribute to the grid in the short run, it is vitally important to find other short- to medium-term solutions to the energy crisis.
Posted on March 06, 2015
As in every year’s budget speech, the increases in taxes and levies drew the attention of especially consumers and small enterprises that usually get affected more severely.
Posted on March 05, 2015
Prof Hannes Gräbe is convinced that researchers at the University, in collaboration with railway stakeholders, have the technical expertise and facilities needed to be a leader in railway engineering in Africa.
Posted on March 03, 2015
"Consider a career as entrepreneur or small business person if you can’t find work, it will solve our unemployment problem!"
Posted on March 02, 2015
The recent UP discovery of a novel compound holds so much promise that some of the world’s leading scientists and pharmaceutical companies want to get involved in its future development.
Posted on March 02, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP) football team, AmaTuks, progressed to the last 16 of the Nedbank Cup for the first time in five years after defeating Moroka Swallows 2‒1 at the LC de Villiers Stadium on Wednesday, 25 February 2015.
Posted on March 02, 2015
In Africa we are accustomed to highlighting poverty, hardship and disease and to take a rather dim view of the future awaiting our continent’s inhabitants.
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