Posted on January 20, 2017
Cape Citizen Science, a project that enlists the help of the public to identify organisms that are killing some of the fynbos species in the Western Cape, has launched a crowd funding campaign to provide youth from a local township with an opportunity to spend a day learning and taking part in...
Posted on January 01, 2017
The Herding for Health Project initiated by the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Pretoria is a One Health, pro-poor, rural development project which aims to respond to pressing challenges at the livestock/wildlife interface.
Posted on January 01, 2017
The African landscape would be incomplete without the majestic silhouette of the giraffe to adorn the savannah sunset tableau. Researchers at the Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on January 01, 2017
The Karoo stretches 400 000 square kilometres over the provinces of the Eastern, Northern and Western Cape. Its vast, open semi-desert landscapes offer a sense of escapism and nothingness, guaranteeing peace and tranquillity for anyone who visits.
Posted on January 01, 2017
The Faculty of Health Science’s Department of Nuclear Medicine has entered a collaboration with the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), to develop a new breakthrough treatment for cancer patients.
Posted on December 06, 2016
The Centre for Child Law (CCL) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with Enterprises University of Pretoria, recently concluded an extensive research project that involved the examination of laws.
Posted on November 28, 2016
More than half of South Africans do not play sports or exercise regularly. A new UP institute will address the problem by supporting healthy, active lifestyles through research.
Posted on November 16, 2016
A vast number of people and goods from across the world enter South Africa through its points of entry on a daily basis. Along with these people and goods, it is without question that a high volume of tiny living organisms enters the country as well.
Posted on November 11, 2016
Climate change in southern Africa will have far-reaching effects on the activities and well-being of humans.
Posted on October 31, 2016
South African fynbos largely makes up the smallest floral kingdom in the world and is the only one that occurs entirely in one country – ours.
Posted on October 27, 2016
Prof Ronél Ferreira, Head of the Department of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria (UP), uses intervention research to facilitate positive change in resource-constrained school settings and vulnerable communities.
Posted on October 06, 2016
South Africa faces four epidemics - Infectious diseases (especially HIV/AIDS and TB), non-communicable diseases (especially diabetes and cardiovascular diseases), high levels of violence and injury, and mother and child illness and death.
Posted on September 30, 2016
Mobile technology has taken the world by storm. These days, it seems there is an app for almost anything you can think of – from apps that remind you to drink enough water throughout the day, to more complicated ones that can calculate how many calories you burn while exercising, or help...
Posted on September 28, 2016
This was one of the fundamental questions posed at the recent official opening of the Poultry Nutrition and Management Research Facility on the University's Experimental Farm.
Posted on September 19, 2016
Despite the fact that access to clean and disease-free drinking water is a basic human right enshrined in South Africa’s constitution, utilities often find it difficult to produce safe drinking water as they have to deal with highly contaminated water.
Posted on September 06, 2016
Chronic diseases of lifestyle (also known as non-communicable diseases of lifestyle or NCDs of lifestyle) present the single most important current and future health threat to both developed and developing nations.
Posted on September 05, 2016
The female Anopheles mosquito is the biggest killer on the African continent.
Posted on August 29, 2016
During times of armed conflict, disasters and forced migration many people tragically lose their lives and, depending on the circumstances, their fate might never be known to their families and loved ones.
Posted on August 25, 2016
Staff members in the Department of African Languages at the University of Pretoria have developed new methods for preparing electronic dictionaries, as part of an exciting project funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), called Scientific e-Lexicography for Africa (SeLA).
Posted on August 10, 2016
An investigation into cross-border tourist guiding in southern Africa, undertaken by the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies and commissioned by the National Department of Tourism (NDT), is yielding interesting and surprising results.
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