Posted on June 13, 2013
The new PDMA-UP Poultry Research Chair in the Faculty of Veterinary Science was recently launched by the Faculty and the South African Poultry Association (SAPA). This exciting collaborative partnership aims among other things, at conducting research on p
Posted on June 11, 2013
There are performances of the shows Chasing (based on the life of Ingrid Jonker) and As Night Falls (based on the life of Helen Martins) at the Masker Theatre at the University of Pretoria. These shows are collaborations between the Drama Department an
Posted on June 10, 2013
Part of the BComHons (Marketing Management) programme is to equip students with practical skills that they will need as young marketers in the industry. In order to meet this goal, the Department of Marketing Management partnered with Newsclip. The pa
Posted on June 07, 2013
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, expresses its concern over the most recent upsurge in xenophobic violence across South Africa. This comes in the wake of reports on the attacks on, and killings of, Somalian nationals in
Posted on June 07, 2013
A topic receiving a lot of attention in the tourism industry lately is that of travel management companies and their future. This topic is currently being researched by Mr Ross Thompson, a MCom (Tourism Management) student in the Tourism Management Divisi
Posted on June 07, 2013
On Friday, 31 May, the ZAZI campaign was launched in the Musaion on the Hatfield Campus at the University of Pretoria. The campus launch took place under the auspices of the UP Youth Choir who were involved in the national and media launches on 25 May.
Posted on June 07, 2013
The Department of Paraclinical Sciences of the Faculty of Veterinary Science is not only expanding its horizons, it is also digging deeper into the past. Dr Fritz Huchzermeyer, an extraordinary lecturer in the Department, was a co-author of an article tha
Posted on June 07, 2013
The Future Talent Meets the Industry initiative allows students from around the world the opportunity to participate in one of the European Society for Opinion and Market Research (ESOMAR) global events. Two BComHons (Marketing Management) students from t
Posted on June 06, 2013
The Board of the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust this week announced Prof Robin Crewe as the recipient of the prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award for 2012. Prof Crewe, currently acting as Senior Vice-Principal at UP, is the thirteenth recipient of t
Posted on June 05, 2013
Honours students of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture have joined forces in proposing interventions to uplift the lives of people at Alaska and Lusaka informal settlements in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria. The interventions are a
Posted on June 04, 2013
Prof Don Cowan, an international researcher of note and the Director of both the Institutional Research Theme in Genomics and the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG) at the University of Pretoria (UP), recently received an A-rating from the N
Posted on June 04, 2013
Multilingualism is a widespread phenomenon occurring in numerous societies throughout the world, including South Africa. However, attitudes towards first and second languages are problematic in South Africa. In this context, the envisaged multilingual pol
Posted on June 04, 2013
The Centre for the Study of AIDS (CSA) in collaboration with the University of Pretoria runs a para-legal advice bureau for people living with HIV/AIDS in Hammanskraal. The bureau is called The Place and it offers HIV related information along with struct
Posted on June 04, 2013
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Students of the LLM/MPhil Programme took part in a photography competition to promote the ideals of human rights and democratisation through still pictures. The LLM/MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa is a unique programme to which 30 i
Posted on June 03, 2013
The Round Table is a programme of the African Presidential Centre at Boston University, to be hosted in the Aula in conjunction with the University of Pretoria. Former President Thabo Mbeki and more than nine other former African presidents, including
Posted on May 31, 2013
The University of Pretoria has launched a Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) initiative at its Daspoort Clinic in Claremont, west of Pretoria. The launch coincided with the d
Posted on May 29, 2013
Dr Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, presented her current research on the economics of renewable energy at two conferences during May 2013. At a local conference in Cape Town, she presented a paper entitled
Posted on May 29, 2013
Prof Sheryl Hendriks, Director of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being (IFNuW) at the University of Pretoria participated in May this year in the seventh meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) High Level Panel of Experts on Food
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