Posted on November 14, 2014
An acclaimed international study looking into new reasons behind the dwindling numbers of cheetah in southern Africa had its inception at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on November 14, 2014
Crimes committed against people with disabilities remains largely unaddressed. Three large-scale studies currently under way at UP aims to change this.
Posted on November 14, 2014
Dr Leith Meyer, Veterinary Sciences Pharmacology researcher at the University of Pretoria, is committed to finding solutions to improve the well-being of wild animals.
Posted on November 12, 2014
An article about research partnerships in the South African rural education community, co-authored by four staff members in the Faculty of Education of at UP, will appear in the January 2015 edition of the acclaimed journal, Teaching and Teacher Education.
Posted on November 11, 2014
The Department of Informatics secured a partnership in MOSAIC2B – an EU FP7 Fire Project – in 2014.
Posted on November 10, 2014
The recently established Chair in Maintenance Engineering in the Centre for Asset Integrity Management (C-AIM) in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at UP, has received strong funding support from Weir Minerals Africa.
Posted on November 10, 2014
Prof Darryn Knobel is providing great insight into the control and foreseeable elimination of rabies.
Posted on October 29, 2014
International researcher Prof Holger Lütters, a professor from the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft in Berlin, Germany, presented an insightful guest lecture to the Marketing Management honours class on ‘The power of “like” – social networks analysis’.
Posted on October 29, 2014
In South Africa, one in 29 women is diagnosed with breast cancer each year.
Posted on October 27, 2014
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, UP's Prof Christof Heyns, has raised concern about the increasing use of technologies that depersonalise the use of force.
Posted on October 27, 2014
The Mammal Research Institute of UP recently conducted the annual survey of the Southern Cape’s Right whale population
Posted on October 20, 2014
Limpopo Province produces 66% of the total annual tonnage of tomatoes grown in South Africa. The province is also deemed particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change, partly because it is exposed to extreme weather events.
Posted on October 08, 2014
Prof Cheryl de la Rey, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria (UP), turned the sod at the start of construction of a new building for TuksSport High School at the University of Pretoria’s LC de Villiers Sports Grounds.
Posted on October 03, 2014
Mass dog vaccination campaigns can have a substantial impact on keeping rabies under control.
Posted on October 02, 2014
The Vice Chancellor and Principal, Prof Cheryl de la Rey, has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) by the Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs Naledi Pandor.
Posted on October 01, 2014
Prof Johan Oberholster, currently the CA Programme Manager, has been appointed as the new Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, with effect from 1 October 2014 to 31 December 2016. Prof Oberholster will continue in his position as CA Programme...
Posted on September 29, 2014
The Mammal Research Institute of the University of Pretoria will start flying their 36th annual helicopter survey of the Southern Cape’s right whale population on 29 September this year
Posted on September 26, 2014
The Department of Higher Education and Training has granted funding of R8 million...
Posted on August 25, 2014
The fight for the health and wellbeing of South Africans should be taken into the homes of the neediest individuals and families, believes Professor Jannie Hugo, Head of the Department of Family Medicine at UP.
Posted on August 21, 2014
Dr Patrick Njage of the Department of Food Science at UP and postdoctoral fellow of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being (IFNuW), was a recipient of the International Union of Food Science and Technology’s (IUFoST) Young Scientist Award for 2014.
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