Posted on October 04, 2021
UP’s Prof Stephanie Burton scooped the Management Award at the recent NSTF Awards. “I have always seen my role in university leadership as one of enabling others,” she said.
Posted on October 01, 2021
To help raise awareness for Mental Health Awareness Month, we look at the links between food security and mental health in the opinion article.
Posted on October 01, 2021
In his monthly video message Vice-Chancellor Professor Tawana Kupe highlights the importance of World Mental Health Day, reminds the UP community to take care of their mental health and general wellness, and urges everyone to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Posted on September 30, 2021
When University of Pretoria (UP) master’s student Dr Michael Barnes submitted his thesis for external examination, he got the surprise of his life when it was subsequently converted into a PhD.
Posted on September 30, 2021
A recent online discussion hosted by the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Alumni Relations Office focused on the future of agriculture and lessons learnt from the pandemic.
Posted on September 29, 2021
The UP Whale Unit’s survey, which will be flown between Nature’s Valley on the Garden Route in the Western Cape and Muizenberg in Cape Town, is one of the longest uninterrupted datasets on any marine mammal worldwide.
Posted on September 29, 2021
Eventually, work being done by Prof Chris Weldon and his students in UP’s Department of Zoology and Entomology will help to reduce food waste going to landfills and make food more affordable.
Posted on September 28, 2021
UP master’s student Dr Hendrik Swanepoel has won the Prize for Global Research of the Province of Antwerp for his dissertation. The award recognises research that contributes to global science for health worldwide.
Posted on September 28, 2021
On 16 October UP will once again partner with community-based festival the Feast of the Clowns, an awareness-raising platform for various social justice issues and “an extension of engaged scholarship and citizenship”.
Posted on September 27, 2021
"We need a renaissance of media that enables democratic renewal, and training and education lies at the heart of it." – UP Vice-Chancellor Prof Tawana Kupe launches GIBS Media Leadership Think Tank.
Posted on September 27, 2021
“Government and other stakeholders must work with arts institutions to ensure their financial sustainability.” – Lekgetho Makola, CEO of @JavettUP, on why we need art now more than ever.
Posted on September 23, 2021
Heritage Month is a time to take stock of the most unique facet of our country’s history: that many diverse groups of people work together, live together and have a shared identity as South Africans, says Vice-Chancellor Professor Tawana Kupe.
Posted on September 22, 2021
History, heritage, culture, memory, social well-being and identity are inexorably linked and critical to developing the SA and Africa that we want, said UP Vice-Chancellor Prof Tawana Kupe at a recent LeadUP discussion.
Posted on September 22, 2021
UP is excited to announce the signing of an MOU with leading non-partisan research network Afrobarometer, a collaboration which will boost research and analysis skills among young African researchers.
Posted on September 20, 2021
“Highlights like this motivate me to make a difference to our society & environment,” says UP lecturer Karen Botes.
Posted on September 20, 2021
“We need to move from the single-story syndrome of the traditionally Western university to an institute that is inclusive of our dynamic, diverse society.” – UP Law Deputy Dean on UP's Curriculum Transformation Drive.
Posted on September 20, 2021
UP’s Professor Thulani Makhalanyane is part of an international team of scientists that has mapped the microbiomes of public parks worldwide for the first time, and he hopes park managers will take note of the results.
Posted on September 20, 2021
A study by a PhD student at the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology reveals that South Africa is experiencing more maximum temperature records than expected and that this trend seems to be accelerating.
Posted on September 20, 2021
At just 24, Dr Rose Muthuri has become the youngest person to graduate with a PhD from UP’s School of Health Systems and Public Health.
Posted on September 17, 2021
UP recently hosted representatives from the Mexican embassy for a tree planting ceremony after it had donated a rare, endangered tree to the University.
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