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  • Huge teaching development grant for UP

    Posted on September 26, 2014

    The Department of Higher Education and Training has granted funding of R8 million...

  • Taking the battle against disease into the family home

    Posted on August 25, 2014

    The fight for the health and wellbeing of South Africans should be taken into the homes of the neediest individuals and families, believes Professor Jannie Hugo, Head of the Department of Family Medicine at UP.

  • UP food scientist receives international award for leadership in his field

    Posted on August 21, 2014

    Dr Patrick Njage of the Department of Food Science at UP and postdoctoral fellow of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being (IFNuW), was a recipient of the International Union of Food Science and Technology’s (IUFoST) Young Scientist Award for 2014.

  • Celebrating 15 years of music therapy training at UP

    Posted on August 21, 2014

    On Saturday 16 August the Music Therapy Unit of the Department of Music hosted a vibrant celebration to showcase the work of current students, past graduates and staff members.

  • Huge teaching development grant for UP

    Posted on August 21, 2014

    The Department of Higher Education and Training has granted funding of R8 million for the development of higher education based on a project plan put forward by the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town.

  • UP PhD student receives prestigious award for best research in basic pharmacology

    Posted on August 10, 2014

    Mr Werner Cordier, who is currently doing a PhD under the supervision of Prof Vanessa Steenkamp from the Department of Pharmacology at UP, was awarded the prestigious IPASA (Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa) award for best research in basic pharmacology for his research...

  • UP Economics students awarded prestigious scholarships

    Posted on March 20, 2014

    Two postgraduate students of the Department of Economics were awarded Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) scholarships. ERSA is a research programme which is being funded by the National Treasury of South Africa. What makes this achievement so remark

  • Research Focus: Three reasons to question Earnings Per Share

    Posted on March 19, 2014

    Prof Johannes de Wet, Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria, says analysts and other users of financial statements should be wary of the pitfalls of reported Earnings Per Share (EPS) performance.

  • UP co-hosts CoE for Food Security

    Posted on March 14, 2014

    The recent announcement that the University of Pretoria (UP) and the University of the Western Cape together with their consortia partners, will co-host the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Food Security, will address some of the dire challenges of food se

  • Research identifies positive parenting as critical mediator in HIV positive families

    Posted on March 14, 2014

    New research done in the Faculty of Education shows that positive parenting by mothers who are HIV positive is a very important mediator in respect of children

  • SA

    Posted on March 14, 2014

    Professor Kai Nagel is a visiting professor from Berlin, who is currently with the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Centre for Transport Development. He is a full professor in Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics at t

  • Researcher receives the 2013 Emerald African Management Research Fund Award

    Posted on March 14, 2014

    Dr Nasima Carrim of the Department of Human Resource Management has been commended an award for a research project that she is doing in the field of management.

  • Top international researcher visits the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

    Posted on March 13, 2014

    Prof Manfred Weiss from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany visited and presented lectures at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.

  • New research commons at Groenkloof Campus

    Posted on March 13, 2014

    A new, modern facility was established to create research opportunities for postgraduate students of the Faculty of Education as well as other Faculties in the University of Pretoria.

  • Top international guest lecturer visits UP

    Posted on March 13, 2014

    The University

  • Aeronautical Engineers making a difference

    Posted on March 13, 2014

    In response to the much publicised problem of rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park, a team of students from the University of Pretoria and three partner universities are designing and building an unmanned fixed-wing aircraft equipped with intelligen

  • UP Professor awarded UNESCO-UNU Chair

    Posted on March 11, 2014

    Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti, associate professor in the department of Political Sciences and Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation at UP, has been appointed as Chair in Regional Integration, Migration and Free Movement of People b

  • University of Pretoria hosts Setlogane Manchidi at its first alumni business breakfast for 2014

    Posted on March 10, 2014

    Mr Setlogane Manchidi, Investec

  • Tuks Camerata gets high recognition

    Posted on March 07, 2014

    Michael Barrett, composer and conductor of the University of Pretoria’s 71-member Tuks Camerata student choir, has been paid the high compliment of having one of his works published by the biggest international distributor of choral music.

  • Prof Kenneth Ozoemena ranked in top 1% of world

    Posted on March 06, 2014

    Based on his citation rate, Prof Kenneth Ozoemena, an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Chemistry, was ranked in the world's top 1% of chemists. This is according to the Essential Science Indicators of ISI Thomson Reuters and is based on journa

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