Posted on August 10, 2014
Mr Werner Cordier, who is currently doing a PhD under the supervision of Prof Vanessa Steenkamp from the Department of Pharmacology at UP, was awarded the prestigious IPASA (Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa) award for best research in basic pharmacology for his research...
Posted on March 20, 2014
Two postgraduate students of the Department of Economics were awarded Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) scholarships. ERSA is a research programme which is being funded by the National Treasury of South Africa. What makes this achievement so remark
Posted on March 19, 2014
Prof Johannes de Wet, Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria, says analysts and other users of financial statements should be wary of the pitfalls of reported Earnings Per Share (EPS) performance.
Posted on March 14, 2014
The recent announcement that the University of Pretoria (UP) and the University of the Western Cape together with their consortia partners, will co-host the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Food Security, will address some of the dire challenges of food se
Posted on March 14, 2014
New research done in the Faculty of Education shows that positive parenting by mothers who are HIV positive is a very important mediator in respect of children
Posted on March 14, 2014
Professor Kai Nagel is a visiting professor from Berlin, who is currently with the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Centre for Transport Development. He is a full professor in Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics at t
Posted on March 14, 2014
Dr Nasima Carrim of the Department of Human Resource Management has been commended an award for a research project that she is doing in the field of management.
Posted on March 13, 2014
Prof Manfred Weiss from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany visited and presented lectures at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.
Posted on March 13, 2014
A new, modern facility was established to create research opportunities for postgraduate students of the Faculty of Education as well as other Faculties in the University of Pretoria.
Posted on March 13, 2014
The University
Posted on March 13, 2014
In response to the much publicised problem of rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park, a team of students from the University of Pretoria and three partner universities are designing and building an unmanned fixed-wing aircraft equipped with intelligen
Posted on March 11, 2014
Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti, associate professor in the department of Political Sciences and Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation at UP, has been appointed as Chair in Regional Integration, Migration and Free Movement of People b
Posted on March 10, 2014
Mr Setlogane Manchidi, Investec
Posted on March 07, 2014
Michael Barrett, composer and conductor of the University of Pretoria’s 71-member Tuks Camerata student choir, has been paid the high compliment of having one of his works published by the biggest international distributor of choral music.
Posted on March 06, 2014
Based on his citation rate, Prof Kenneth Ozoemena, an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Chemistry, was ranked in the world's top 1% of chemists. This is according to the Essential Science Indicators of ISI Thomson Reuters and is based on journa
Posted on March 05, 2014
On 27 February 2014 the European Parliament adopted Resolution 2014/2567(RSP) on the use of armed drones wherein it notes its concerns on the deaths of thousands of civilians where drones have been used. The European Parliament
Posted on March 05, 2014
Another impressive
Posted on March 04, 2014
So similar yet different! This is the conclusion of a research team representative of five local and foreign universities published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Posted on March 04, 2014
So similar yet different! This is the conclusion of a research team representative of five local and foreign universities published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Posted on March 03, 2014
The University of Pretoria is the first academic institution in South Africa to partner with The MasterCard Foundation to provide financial aid to academically talented students from different parts of the SADC region.
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