Posted on December 12, 2014
Students in Africa receive major boost to attain university education with $86,6 million commitment from the MasterCard foundation.
Posted on December 10, 2014
Minister of Sports and Recreation, Fikile Mbalula recently launched the third edition of the SA Schools Sports Championships, to be held at UP’s High Performance Centre.
Posted on December 09, 2014
The UP Centre for Law and Medicine's efforts were rewarded when the SCA recently ruled that the onus to completely prove negligence by medical practitioners no longer rests with the patients who sue them.
Posted on December 09, 2014
The Kresge Foundation awarded $2,9 million to four South African universities and an education institute to improve student success through improved data analytics.
Posted on December 05, 2014
Professor Michael Pepper and his team of researchers at the University of Pretoria have been awarded an MRC Extramural Research Unit for Stem Cell Research and Therapy.
Posted on December 05, 2014
As a first step towards the development of a Sports, Exercise, Medicine and Lifestyle Research Institute at the University of Pretoria (UP), the Faculty of Health Sciences has appointed Prof Martin Schwellnus as head of the new Institute.
Posted on December 05, 2014
2014 DuPont Symposium
Posted on December 02, 2014
A long-awaited land-swap agreement was recently signed by the University of Pretoria’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Cheryl de la Rey, and Mr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane.
Posted on December 02, 2014
The Department of Paraclinical Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), through CE@UP and in collaboration with SANParks’ Veterinary Wildlife Services, recently hosted the first Advanced Course in Wildlife Chemical Immobilisation and Field Practice in the Kruger National Park.
Posted on December 01, 2014
In the recent Accelerator Programme Innovation Competition, UP academics Dr Candice van Wyk, Dr Francien Botha and Prof Kobus Eloff were awarded top honours and received the sum of R300 000 for their innovative product called Candida-free Natural. They also came second in the GAP Biosciences...
Posted on November 28, 2014
A Centre staff project at the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication at UP has led to the development of multilingual communication boards specifically aimed at helping individuals with complex communication needs to disclose victimization.
Posted on November 27, 2014
Dr Margareta Adolfsson from the CHILD project at Jönköping University in Sweden visited the Centre for AAC on Monday, 17 November. Margareta, Ensa Johnson (CAAC), together with Dr. Stefan Nilsson (CHILD; Göthenburg University, Sweden) are doing research on how pain in children with cerebral...
Posted on November 27, 2014
Research done at the University of Pretoria has found that the abundant occurrence of two species of midges that cause AHS could be due to their ability to withstand cold temperatures.
Posted on November 14, 2014
An acclaimed international study looking into new reasons behind the dwindling numbers of cheetah in southern Africa had its inception at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on November 14, 2014
Crimes committed against people with disabilities remains largely unaddressed. Three large-scale studies currently under way at UP aims to change this.
Posted on November 14, 2014
Dr Leith Meyer, Veterinary Sciences Pharmacology researcher at the University of Pretoria, is committed to finding solutions to improve the well-being of wild animals.
Posted on November 12, 2014
An article about research partnerships in the South African rural education community, co-authored by four staff members in the Faculty of Education of at UP, will appear in the January 2015 edition of the acclaimed journal, Teaching and Teacher Education.
Posted on November 11, 2014
The Department of Informatics secured a partnership in MOSAIC2B – an EU FP7 Fire Project – in 2014.
Posted on November 10, 2014
The recently established Chair in Maintenance Engineering in the Centre for Asset Integrity Management (C-AIM) in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at UP, has received strong funding support from Weir Minerals Africa.
Posted on November 10, 2014
Prof Darryn Knobel is providing great insight into the control and foreseeable elimination of rabies.
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