Posted on July 22, 2022
UP Academic Professor Evans Chirwa has won the NSTF-Water Research Commission Award at this year’s ‘Science Oscars’. Congratulations Professor Chirwa!
Posted on July 20, 2022
UP academics are playing a lead role in the reintroduction of wild cheetahs into India as part of efforts to ensure the global survival of the species. It will be the first intercontinental species reintroduction of its kind.
Posted on July 20, 2022
Until we know more about the risks, we should try to limit our exposure to microplastics found in products and in the environment, and the toxic chemicals associated with them. This is according to Professor Halina Röllin of UP’s School of Health Systems and Public Health, who was part of...
Posted on July 20, 2022
Until we know more about the risks, we should try to limit our exposure to microplastics found in products and in the environment, and the toxic chemicals associated with them. This is according to Professor Halina Röllin of UP’s School of Health Systems and Public Health, who was part of...
Posted on July 19, 2022
UP’s Faculty of Theology and Religion has launched a book titled ‘Old Ways of Being to New Ways of Seeing’, which reflects on discrimination issues in society and on university campuses.
Posted on July 18, 2022
Tiara Joseph is one of 18 students from 20 South African universities to win this prestigious bursary, part of the legacy of Abe Bailey (1864-1940), who was a Rand mining magnate and a provincial cricketer.
Posted on July 18, 2022
Professor Philip Stevens of the Department of Public Law recently delivered his inaugural lecture, presenting the topic ‘Criminal Law in the Wake of Science – Can Neuroscience Inform the Criminal Law? Medico-Legal Perspectives from South Africa’.
Posted on July 18, 2022
“Being kind has been shown to be like a two-way street: if you are kind to someone else, it actually improves your own well-being,” says Professor Irma Eloff, Educational Psychology lecturer at the University of Pretoria (UP).
Posted on July 18, 2022
Congratulations to reigning Miss South Africa and UP alumna Lalela Mswane on being crowned Miss Supranational 2022 at the international competition recently held in Poland!
Posted on July 16, 2022
“This is the time to reflect on all the values that President Mandela demonstrated to resist oppression: justice over inequality, dignity over humiliation, forgiveness over hatred,” says UP Vice-Chancellor Prof Tawana Kupe.
Posted on July 15, 2022
UP has distributed more than 5 000 free sanitary product packs to students in need. “It is a proud moment for UP to be one of the first universities in SA to provide free pads to students” – Phina Sokho, administrative officer at Student Health Services
Posted on July 12, 2022
UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science plays an important part in supporting South Africa’s small-scale farming community, through our Primary Animal Health Care training programme.
Posted on July 12, 2022
Senior CAS Research Fellow, Professor Adekeye Adebajo discusses Nigerian scholar-diplomat Ejeviome Eloho Otobo's contribution to pan-Africanism and scholarship on peacebuilding in Africa.
Posted on July 12, 2022
The Albertina Sisulu orchid was described as a new species in 1955, the same year the struggle stalwart launched the Freedom Charter with her compatriots in the ANC Women’s League. Researchers at the University of Pretoria want to help save this endangered plant by understanding the unique...
Posted on July 12, 2022
FABI academic Prof Mike Wingfield has received the annual Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award for his research into disease-causing fungi. This R2 million award recognises scholarship of the highest calibre across various academic and research disciplines, and is ranked as one of Africa’s...
Posted on July 11, 2022
UP has launched the VCDMA Alumni Chapter, the aim of which is to promote professional and social interaction, and ensure the continuation and success of the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Merit Award (VCDMA) initiative.
Posted on July 11, 2022
“Having witnessed the proceedings and conclusion of the Zondo Commission, South Africans are justified in our belief that the Commission was the latest in the government’s line of performative morality,” says UP lecturer Keolebogile Mbebe.
Posted on July 07, 2022
The Centre for the Study of Resilience in the Faculty of Education at UP recently collaborated with Books for Africa to donate educational books to two underserved educational institutions in Atteridgeville.
Posted on July 07, 2022
More than three billion people, most of whom are in developing countries, rely on the ocean to make a living. Fisheries and aquaculture provide the main source of animal protein for some 17% of the world’s population. In the least-developed countries, fish contributes about 29% of animal...
Posted on July 06, 2022
The project will widen the thematic discourse to be more interdisciplinary – apart from geo(infor)matics, students from the social sciences and cultural media management will also be involved.
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