Posted on June 05, 2021
“Countries need to work together to ensure the sustained protection of the planet and its ecosystems.” – Anke Nel of UP’s Political Sciences Department on why it’s imperative that we change our relationship with nature.
Posted on June 05, 2021
UP BA Law graduate Oarabile Mashigo decided to hone and monetise his blanket-making skills and start a business to raise funds, which led to him teaching other young people how to do the same.
Posted on June 04, 2021
UP’s Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership has been repositioned as the Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute.
Posted on June 03, 2021
Congratulations to the eight UP academics and the University’s science centre, Sci-Enza, for being selected as finalists in the 2020/2021 National Science and Technology Forum’s NSTF-South32 Awards.
Posted on June 03, 2021
The Department of Education Innovation describes what it took for UP to achieve an almost seamless transition to online learning at the start of the COVID-19 crisis.
Posted on June 02, 2021
The partnership between the institutions is currently facilitated by the Alliance for African Partnership.
Posted on June 01, 2021
In this month’s video message, Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe reflects on Youth Day, which falls on 16 June.
Posted on May 31, 2021
UP drama students are taking science communication to the people with an interactive play on the use of hand sanitisers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted on May 31, 2021
The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at UP and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study co-hosted a virtual centenary commemoration of the Bulhoek Massacre of 1921.
Posted on May 30, 2021
18-year-old whizz-kid Hjalmar Rall, who registered as a UP student when he was 14, recently graduated cum laude with a BSc Honours Degree in Physics.
Posted on May 30, 2021
TuksSport Director Steven Ball takes us behind the scenes on the extensive planning that went into the hosting of this year’s @varsitycup in a secure ‘bio-bubble’.
Posted on May 29, 2021
Africa is capable of manufacturing safe and effective vaccines – it just needs the support to do so.
Posted on May 28, 2021
The surgery, which will enable the filly to return to racing in three months’ time, is one of several breakthroughs by UP veterinary specialists in recent months.
Posted on May 27, 2021
Dr Perekeme Mutu’s journey has led him from working odd jobs as a security guard and at a carwash to a PhD.
Posted on May 27, 2021
Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, billionaire business magnate Aliko Mohammed Dangote, and “father of African literature” Chinua Achebe won the inaugural African Genius Awards, proudly hosted by UP.
Posted on May 27, 2021
Mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is higher in African countries than reported from studies done in Asia, Europe, North America and South America. This is according to the findings of a study that was conducted by a team of African researchers, including experts from the...
Posted on May 26, 2021
Nine top-performing UP graduates have been awarded the Vice‐Chancellor and Principal's medal for their consistently excellent performance through their undergraduate studies.
Posted on May 25, 2021
UP's Prof Wanda Markotter is one of 26 global experts chosen to provide science-based advice to the One Health High-Level Expert Panel, a UN initiative.
Posted on May 25, 2021
"The future of the world hinges on the future of Africa." – Vice-Chancellor and Principal Prof Tawana Kupe makes a bold statement in his annual Africa Day address.
Posted on May 25, 2021
The Rotary E-Club of Southern Africa D9400, in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Edina Morningside, has partnered with UP's Community Oriented Primary Care unit in a community project in Melusi informal settlement.
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