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It’s nearly time to say a big WELCOME! to all new University of Pretoria (UP) first-year students – you are about to begin one of the most memorable and significant journeys of your life! We know that the start of your time at university is exciting not only for you, but also for your parents and family.

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Two University of Pretoria (UP) academics have received prestigious A-1 ratings by the National Research Foundation (NRF) for 2018, bringing the number of UP scientists rated in the A category to 14.

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Dr Eddie Michel, a research fellow in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria, was recently awarded three prestigious research grants from presidential foundations in the United States. Dr Michel will use the grants – from the Gerald R Ford, Harry S Truman and Lyndon B Johnson foundations – to expand the source base for his research project entitled “The Whites are there to stay! The United States and apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994”.

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Two internationally renowned researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP), Prof Mike Wingfield and Prof Bernard Slippers, have been included on the 2018 Web of Science’s list of the world’s most highly cited researchers.

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A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between the University of Pretoria (UP) and the Animal Feed Manufacturers Association of South Africa (AFMA) to the value of R50 million for the establishment of a feed mill research facility was officially signed on 11 December 2018.

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In recognition of Professor Cheryl de la Rey’s contribution to the University of Pretoria, the University is proud to announce that the Tuks Scholarship Fund will henceforth be known as The Professor Cheryl de la Rey Scholarship Fund. Prof De la Rey has served UP as Vice-Chancellor and Principal since 2009 and will take up a new post as Vice-Chancellor of New Zealand’s University of Canterbury.

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The African Research Universities Alliance Centre of Excellence for Food Security was recently launched at the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa campus. The theme of the launch was ‘The future of food in Africa’.

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The University of Pretoria signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Montpellier University of Excellence (MUSE) on 12 December 2018.

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The University of Pretoria (UP) and Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in a number of areas over a five-year period. With this agreement both universities agreed to strengthen their mutual collaboration in exchanging students and staff, joint research programmes and other activities. The signing ceremony took place 11 December at the Netherlands Embassy in Pretoria.

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Four University of Pretoria scientists conducting research in sub-Saharan Africa are among a group of 14 women who were recently awarded fellowships by the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Regional Programme.

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Mozambique energy company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) attended a Leadership Programme for Directors at Enterprises University of Pretoria (Enterprises UP), led by Prof Ann de Boer, a renowned specialist in Whole Brain® thinking and management.

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Students at the University of Pretoria’s Information Design Department had the opportunity to showcase innovative apps that they developed, and which all tap into a social need, to a packed Merensky Library auditorium. The showcase was themed “Designing a Sustainable Future for Africa” and was held to create awareness about the role that technology, particularly mobile technology, plays in our everyday lives

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Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights Graduation Ceremony on Friday. The event, at which degrees were awarded to students in human rights, commemorated 100 years since the birth of former President Nelson Mandela, and 70 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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According to Amnesty International, human rights continue to deteriorate. CIVICUS – an umbrella body for a global alliance of civil society organisations – observes that the civil society space is shrinking. Human rights activists and social justice movements face an uphill battle.

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To all new and conditionally accepted students, parents and guardians—welcome to the University of Pretoria! We are a home to some of the country’s brightest minds, and you have taken one of the most important steps on the road to success. When you graduate, you will be equipped to take your place in society, not only as members of the skilled workforce our country needs, but also as future leaders.

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Dr Colleta Gandidzanwa, a researcher in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria, had the unique opportunity to visit Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in October, having been selected earlier this year as a 2018 fellow for the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS).

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Almost half the students that make up this year’s GradStar programme’s top 10 are from the University of Pretoria. Bernice Mabaya and Roger Wyllie, from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, and the Law Faculty’s Kirsten Dempsey and Michelle Oelofse all made the cut.

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Prof Jannie Hugo, head of the University of Pretoria’s Department of Family Medicine, was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the South African Medical Association (SAMA) for outstanding, pioneering contributions to the primary healthcare system.

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Dr Karin Lourens has carried out many world-firsts in the treatment of pangolins –and now she is giving these illegally trafficked animals an even better chance of survival after being the first to chart the normal reference intervals of a healthy pangolin.

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UP's Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, the SA National Roads Agency Limited and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research have embarked on a major partnership to establish an Integrated Education, National Certification, National Reference and Research Laboratories Facility.

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