Posted on July 21, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to have hosted a public lecture by Sir Mark Walport, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) and Head of the UK Government Office for Science, on 17 July 2015.
Posted on July 20, 2015
The MasterCard Foundation recently held its third Tertiary Scholars Program Convening in June during which university level scholars from across the Program came together to meet and talk about critical issues.
Posted on July 20, 2015
Dr Willem Fourie from the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with Suzanne van der Merwe and Ben van der Merwe, both from the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, recently published an informative and...
Posted on July 20, 2015
Research activities between the UP CSMC and French partners will focus on the expansion of predictive malaria-risk maps to investigate the impacts of climate variability and changes on the occurrence and intensity of malaria epidemics.
Posted on July 17, 2015
In honour of what would have been Madiba’s 97th birthday, coaches and faculty members of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) will be volunteering two hours of their time on 17 July at the Illovo campus.
Posted on July 16, 2015
Following a programme review and extensive industry feedback, the format of the GfK programme in Marketing Research offered by the Department of Marketing Management at the University of Pretoria (UP) will be changed in 2016.
Posted on July 15, 2015
Prof Theo van Wyk was appointed Director of the Department UP Arts in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria earlier this year.
Posted on July 15, 2015
The Parent-Child Programme focusses on exploring caregiver–child relationships, behavioural techniques and working with children and adolescents with special needs related to mental health.
Posted on July 14, 2015
With the increasing resistance of parasites and micro-organisms to commercially available anti-parasitic and antimicrobial drugs, the need to find treatments that improve animal and human health is fast becoming a necessity.
Posted on July 14, 2015
A new law protecting adolescents from being arrested and tried for consensual sexual activity was signed by President Jacob Zuma on 3 July 2015.
Posted on July 13, 2015
University of Pretoria (UP) Profs Zander Myburg, Nigel Bennett and Dr Thulani Makhalanyane were winners of National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)-BHP Billiton Awards.
Posted on July 10, 2015
Prof Willie Burger and Irene Raath discuss 'Onderwêreld', the Afrikaans book prescribed for Grade 12 learners, on the program Prontuit on KykNet.
Posted on July 10, 2015
Prof Johann Kirsten, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development was recently appointed as the Editor of Agrekon, published by Taylor and Francis and indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. He succeeds Prof André Jooste who was Agrekon editor since 2010.
Posted on July 09, 2015
The University of Pretoria’s Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) and the French Embassy in Pretoria co-hosted a workshop to explore the potential of a joint research programme using remote sensing.
Posted on July 09, 2015
Akani Simbine won the 100 m at the World Student Games in a time of 9,97 seconds!
Posted on July 08, 2015
They are called extremophiles - microorganisms that can survive under extreme conditions such as in the Namib Desert or the Antarctic Dry Valleys.
Posted on July 08, 2015
Friday 3 July saw the end of a very busy and action-packed week for TuksSport as 9 different sports codes were competing in their respective USSA tournaments across the country.
Posted on July 07, 2015
The Street Medicine in Tshwane Inner City project recently initiated by the Department of Family Medicine will provide basic medical care to those living and sleeping on the streets.
Posted on July 03, 2015
What does stress really do to our bodies? While we all understand the symptoms of the stress response, few of us know what the underlying physiological mechanisms are.
Posted on July 02, 2015
A panel at a recent forum held at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), in collaboration with Dimension Data, discussed the characteristics of disruptive businesses and what sets them apart in a competitive business world.
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