Posted on December 10, 2013
Prof Brenda Wingfield, a researcher of high international standing received an A-rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF), effective from 2014. She is also the first women in the Faculty to receive this rating. This achievement is even more e
Posted on December 06, 2013
The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Professor Cheryl de la Rey, on behalf of the University community, joins South Africa and the world in mourning the loss of Nelson Mandela.
Posted on December 04, 2013
The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership and its Integrated Reporting Team launched the Integrated reporting yearbook 2013 on 28 November. The same date also saw a celebration in honour of the first group of students to complete the Postgradua
Posted on December 04, 2013
A revolutionary innovation that offers a cost-effective solution to the current barriers of school-based hearing screening, is the result of a recent collaboration between Prof. De Wet Swanepoel from the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiolo
Posted on December 03, 2013
The 2013 National Student Project Competition of the SAIEE (South African Institute of Electrical Engineers) was hosted by the University of Pretoria on 28 November. Top final-year students from South African universities and universities of technology took part in the competition.
Posted on December 03, 2013
The Head of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Pretoria, Prof Josua Meyer, has received an award by the World Education Congress as Best Professor in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering.
Posted on December 03, 2013
Wishing you and your family love, peace, and joy this Holiday Season and in the New Year.
Ons wens u en u gesin liefde, vrede en vreugde toe gedurende die Feestyd en in die Nuwe Jaar.
Re lakalet
Posted on November 27, 2013
Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Gwen Ramokgopa, celebrated the launch of the latest edition of The Human Skeleton in Forensic Medicine authored by Prof Maryna Steyn, a physical anthropologist and the Director of Forensic Anthropology Research Centre, based
Posted on November 27, 2013
Students of the Tourism Management Division hosted two Save the Rhino events. The first was an exhibition in the Merensky Library of the University of Pretoria in October where ceramic rhinos, painted by students and lecturers, were showcased. The second
Posted on November 25, 2013
Prof Norman Duncan, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at UP, is one of the editors of a new thought-provoking book on racism, entitled Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towards a Psychosocial Praxis. The book, co-edited by Professor Garth Stevens an
Posted on November 22, 2013
The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) has awarded Professor Robin Crewe the prestigious Gold Medal for Outstanding Meritorious Service at the launch of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria. It is only the se
Posted on November 21, 2013
The Faculty of Education launched seven new books on 6 November 2013. The books flowed from the pens of a number of productive staff members in the Faculty.
Posted on November 21, 2013
Posted on November 15, 2013
PhD student, Laura Danga, from the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pretoria was awarded the BEST YOUNG WATER SCIENTIST 2013 in the poster category of the 14th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium. She was one of 30 young
Posted on November 15, 2013
The newly refurbished Burns Unit, managed by the University of Pretoria
Posted on November 15, 2013
The University of Pretoria has extended its cooperation with Jamaica to include the development of sport. This followed a visit to the University of Pretoria
Posted on November 12, 2013
The methodology for compiling a new global index of the
Posted on November 12, 2013
Engineering and Technology was the main focus regarding the formalising of academic ties between the University of Pretoria (UP) and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) in Nigeria. The formal relationship of the two institutions was sealed
Posted on November 12, 2013
The 12th of November is annually celebrated throughout the continent as African University Day. This follows the decision by the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU) in 1994 to inaugurate this day to sensitize people on the role of
Posted on November 07, 2013
Speaking on the first day of a two-day conference on the effective implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo posed the question as to why this treaty has had so little traction in Afric
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