Posted on February 04, 2021
Universities in Africa will benefit from a massive open online course that has been launched by the University Social Responsibility Network.
Posted on February 04, 2021
With public schools still closed as a result of COVID-19, Prof Kobus Maree of UP’s Dept of Educational Psychology offers learners and parents tips on how to maximise learning potential.
Posted on February 03, 2021
As is often the case during economic crises such, there are winners and losers, and in this case, it is the least skilled workers and poor females who suffer the most, say UP researchers.
Posted on February 03, 2021
University of Pretoria (UP) alumna Dr Reantha Pillay has been named as one of ten awardees of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for 2021. Dr Pillay graduated cum laude with an MBChB from UP’s Faculty of Health Sciences in 2017.
Posted on February 02, 2021
Congratulations to Lekgetho Makola on his new position as the CEO of Javett-UP! “I am looking forward to guiding one of South Africa’s newest museums to a truly distinctive place in our heritage sector,” says Makola.
Posted on February 01, 2021
UP staffer Sihle Nontshokweni has written this year’s official South African story to be read on #WorldReadAloudDay on 3 February.
Posted on February 01, 2021
UP’s Dean of Veterinary Science, Professor Vinny Naidoo, weighs in on the debate around the use of a veterinary drug to treat COVID-19.
Posted on February 01, 2021
FSNet-Africa is excited to announce that the Call for Applications for the FSNet-Africa fellowship is now open. Researchers working on African food systems research are invited to submit applications as fellows or mentors.
Posted on January 29, 2021
Congratulations to UP Economics academic Prof Roula Inglesi-Lotz, who has been appointed Vice-President: Regional Affairs of the International Association for Energy Economics Council.
Posted on January 29, 2021
A study by a team of scientists at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin, Germany and the University of Pretoria (UP) has found that naked mole-rats can communicate with one another within their own colony. They do this with a unique dialect that is specific to that...
Posted on January 28, 2021
After over 300 lockdown days, the UP Museums are finally reopening their doors to the public. With new artwork and some new gallery changes, read more here to find out what you can look forward to.
Posted on January 28, 2021
A start-up company founded by two postgraduate UP students, incubated by UP’s TuksNovation, is starting to turn heads in the natural skincare products market.
Posted on January 27, 2021
Through 65 years on stage, Jonas Gwangwa’s playing contributed to every genre of South African jazz. Overseas, he was hailed as player, producer and composer.
Posted on January 27, 2021
UP’s Professor Elna Buys and Professor Riëtte de Kock are currently the president-elect and vice-president, respectively, of the South African Association for Food Science and Technology.
Posted on January 25, 2021
An international study led by the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Professor Rudi van Aarde suggests that the mass die-off of 350 elephants in one area of northern Botswana last year could be attributed to the fencing-in of these animals.
Posted on January 22, 2021
The changing mission of higher education is the increasing realisation that, without relinquishing any of our cherished convictions regarding academic freedom, we should add to them in equal measure a sense of academic responsibility, writes Professor Chris Brink.
Posted on January 20, 2021
Professor Sunil Maharaj, Dean of our Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, has been appointed as the new Chair-Elect of the Global Engineering Deans Council. Prof Maharaj is the first Dean in Africa to occupy this position.
Posted on January 19, 2021
UP’s Professor Stephanie Burton recently vacated her position as Vice-Principal for Research and Postgraduate Education after serving two terms – though the chapter on her academic accomplishments, and her association with UP, is far from closed.
Posted on January 18, 2021
Dr Rebone Moerane, Head of the University's Department of Production Animal Studies of Production Animal Studies, shares lessons learned from pandemics in animal populations.
Posted on January 15, 2021
Whether populist disturbances of the magnitude witnessed at the US Capitol last week could happen in South Africa is not the question but, rather, in what ways are there similarities and trends, says UP Vice-Chancellor Professor Tawane Kupe.
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