The University of Pretoria (UP) is calling on alumni, partners and the broader public to stand in solidarity with students facing hunger and financial hardship by supporting UP Giving Month, which launched in July 2025. 8 Jul 2025 Read more The University of Pretoria’s (UP) alumni relations office has launched season five of its acclaimed LeadUP podcast, with the first episode featuring UP alumna Sumarie Greybe, co-founder of Naked Insurance and a leader in South Africa’s insurtech sector. 4 Jul 2025 Read more Between lectures, training sessions and international swimming competitions, University of Pretoria (UP) students Tumelo (18) and Owethu Mahan (20) have little time to slow down. And now the brothers are making a name for themselves as high-performance swimmers representing both UP and South Africa on the international stage. 25 Jun 2025 Read more The Department of Consumer and Food Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) has launched a 376- page recipe book celebrating the vibrant tropical fruit papaya. Beyond the Smoothie: Papaya Recipes for Every Occasion, written by UP Culinary Arts lecturer Dr Hennie Fisher, is being launched during June to mark Papaya Month. 24 Jun 2025 Read more At an age when most teenagers are still navigating high school, Mongiwa Hazel Ntuli will be donning her graduation gown this autumn as one of the University of Pretoria’s (UP) youngest-ever graduates – obtaining a degree in Actuarial Science that she’d completed at the age of 17. 29 May 2025 Read more The University of Pretoria (UP) has conferred an honorary doctorate upon South Africa’s most celebrated and multi-award-winning editorial cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro - better known as Zapiro. 27 May 2025 Read more A veterinary team from the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science recently gave four-year-old white rhino bull Houdini a breath of life after performing fully invasive surgery for more than five hours to remove a severe obstruction from his nasal passage. 26 May 2025 Read more "SA managers, investors and entrepreneurs could do with a decision-making mind shift." – Prof Charlene Lew during inaugural address. 16 Apr 2025 Read more The Covid-19 pandemic unwittingly became a huge, focused experiment in remote and flexible work. While the advantages of working away from a fixed office space were clearly prompted by the pandemic, the number of people working remotely continues to increase as the workplace changes. 9 Apr 2025 Read more Once an unofficial rubbish dump and a hotspot for illegal activity, Moja Gabedi at 384 Festival Street in Hatfield has been transformed into a thriving community engagement hub thanks to the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Unit for Community Engagement. What was once an eyesore is now a lush urban garden, a centre for student learning and a safe, green haven for the local community. 7 Apr 2025 Read more After the launch of his latest book, Professor Adekeye Adebajo, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria (UP), said that he hopes the book will provide South African audiences specifically with insights into African economics and politics and the role South Africa plays in Southern Africa’s broader economy. 27 Mar 2025 Read more The inauguration of a vice-chancellor is more than a ceremonial event; it is a moment charged with reflection, vision, and the promise of what lies ahead. This sense of anticipation and renewal filled the auditorium as a 200-strong University of Pretoria (UP) symphony orchestra, youth choir and cultural ensemble graced the stage at the inauguration ceremony of UP’s vice-chancellor and principal, Professor Francis Petersen. 24 Mar 2025 Read more The University of Pretoria (UP) Museums is proud to present a new, thought-provoking exhibition that brings together a selection of textiles from across the globe, showcasing both the simplicity and complexity of the medium, and highlighting its historical and cultural significance. 12 Mar 2025 Read more The tobacco industry has set its sights on Africa, exploiting regulatory loopholes and targeting a rapidly growing youth population with new nicotine products. 11 Mar 2025 Read more Professor De Wet Swanepoel of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at the University of Pretoria (UP) has received the International Award for Hearing from the American Academy of Audiology. 28 Feb 2025 Read more The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce the launch of A Re Ageng Bokamoso, a student-led fundraising campaign that aims to raise R5 million to support students who are facing financial hardship. UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Francis Petersen has pledged that the University will match the funds raised, effectively doubling the impact of the initiative. 17 Feb 2025 Read more The University of Pretoria (UP) recently hosted its annual Welcome Day event to induct first-year students who will soon be embarking on their university journey. Held on Saturday, 1 February 2025 at Rembrandt Hall on Hillcrest campus, this special event saw incoming students along with their parents and guardians visit the campus for a day that was filled with anticipation, celebration and a sense of community, setting the tone for what promises to be a memorable and impactful experience at UP. 7 Feb 2025 Read more A University of Pretoria professor is part of a global team whose new research estimates that 10,000 lives could be saved in SA alone if the government implement the ‘endgame strategy’. 24 Oct 2024 Read more University of Pretoria (UP) choir Tuks Camerata receives a nomination from the South African Music Awards (SAMA) for its latest album, uJehova, in the category Best Traditional Faith Music Album. 22 Oct 2024 Read more The University of Pretoria welcomed its new vice-chancellor and principal, Professor Francis Petersen, in a special event attended by senior management. In his address, Prof Petersen outlined his vision for UP, focusing on academic excellence, societal impact, and a people-centric approach. 16 Oct 2024 Read more Find out how you can win this one-of-a-kind 1967 piece of South African history while supporting students in need. 19 Sep 2024 Read more The University of Pretoria (UP) is raffling off a classic 1967 Beetle as part of its Giving Matters Campaign, which raises money to help students in need of financial aid. 20 Aug 2024 Read more Africa's overlooked, understudied microbiomes have huge potential for microbially derived therapeutics, and possibly even new antibiotics. Before the continent can tap into these possibilities, however, a vast amount of research needs to be done to close the knowledge deficit. 28 Jun 2023 Read more The University of Pretoria's (UP) annual Africa Week scientific leadership summit concluded with an outlining of the priorities that need to be pursued to advance Open Science on the continent. Open Science is a global movement to make information about scientific research easily accessible at all levels of society. 8 Jun 2023 Read more The Covid-19 pandemic made remote working necessary, and forced organisations to be agile. Three years after the first lockdowns, 'normal' work routines have resumed - but organisations have now also adopted a hybrid work model to maintain, motivate, and boost employee performance without losing flexibility and autonomy. 2 Jun 2023 Read more The University of Pretoria (UP) achieved a 100% pass rate in the 2023 South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) Initial Test of Competence (ITC). 18 Apr 2023 Read more When hearing aids are not enough, cochlear implants are the next step to alleviate hearing loss. But they are not for everyone. A transdisciplinary research team aims to customise each device and enhance the benefit for users of these devices. 2 Mar 2023 Read more The University of Pretoria's (UP) Pre-University Academy (PUA) has been collaborating with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU) to teach learners from Mamelodi, Pretoria, how to code drones. 14 Feb 2023 Read more The University of Pretoria Pre-University Academy (UP-PUA) is a Senate-approved programme which will operate from the Groenkloof, Mamelodi and Hatfield Campuses and the Veterinary Science Campus in 2023. The programme's main aim is to (i) prepare learners to qualify for tertiary studies by equipping them with a conceptual understanding of Science, and Mathematics concepts, enhancing mathematical and scientific skills and developing inter and intrapersonal skills; and (ii) prepare learners to succeed and thrive in their university studies. 19 Dec 2022 Read more Two pioneering studies published in Nature and Genome Medicine recently identified genetic signatures explaining ethnic differences in the severity of prostate cancer, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. 16 Nov 2022 Read more Researchers at the University of Pretoria (UP) are making today matter by battling aggressive breast cancer through identifying genes that make African women more susceptible to certain forms of breast cancer. However, this is no easy task as very little genomic information is known about African populations. This is just one of UP's research projects that aim to ensure that there is a clear benefit for society, and that in the future many more lives could be saved from the scourge of cancer. 18 Oct 2022 Read more Nature has solved many of the problems that humankind is now facing, including offering renewable energy options. Using nature as their guide, a biophysics research group at the University of Pretoria (UP) investigated the inner workings of chloroplasts - and came back energised. 12 Sep 2022 Read more South Africa has a dual agricultural economy, with an established commercial farming industry and an emerging small-scale farming sector. Most small-scale farmers are based on communal lands under tribal authority, or the former homeland areas. As owners of a significant number of livestock including cattle, sheep and goats, they play an important role in contributing to food security, employment, and poverty alleviation. 30 Aug 2022 Read more Amid intense competition for funding and pressure to make their research more accessible to the public, researchers around the world, including South Africa, are sharpening their communication skills. Their aim is to communicate their findings to public audiences while maintaining the integrity of their work. Such skills are essential, given the changes sweeping the media: downsizing means that few media houses have journalists with the time to make complicated, jargon-heavy academic content more accessible to their readers or viewers. 20 Jul 2022 Read more Graduates who received their degrees at the University of Pretoria's (UP) recent autumn graduation ceremonies are among the 12% of students in South Africa who have gained access to higher education over the past decade. 6 Jun 2022 Read more A study led by researchers at the University of Pretoria (UP) has found that people who believe that others are complying with Covid-19 regulations are more likely to comply as well. 1 Apr 2022 Read more A team of scientists from the University of Pretoria (UP) has published the only study from Africa that entailed genomic One Health investigations which reveal that Delta variants of Covid-19 were transmitted from humans to animals. 7 Mar 2022 Read more The University of Pretoria (UP) is launching its Research Matters science communication platform to help increase the flow of scientific knowledge and fight misinformation in South Africa, across Africa, and around the world. 3 Dec 2021 Read more The University of Pretoria (UP) is pleased to announce that academics professors Mike Wingfield and Rangan Gupta have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2021 list from Clarivate. 22 Nov 2021 Read more Professor Thulani Makhalanyane and Professor Emma Archer say that life found only in Africa, from invisibly tiny microbes to huge mammal herds and our kaleidoscope of plants, can give us medicines, technologies and ways to manage climate change. 20 Aug 2021 Read more The University of Pretoria's (UP) Alumni Relations Office is set to launch its LeadUP Podcast series, in which alumni and friends of the University will share their stories and leadership lessons. 27 Jul 2021 Read more The Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) and Steve Biko Academic Hospital have welcomed Stevie, a mobile robot that will help improve the treatment of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be done through instant live discussion and communication daily between German and South African intensive-care unit (ICU) teams. 5 Jul 2021 Read more Civilisations the world over have faced all sorts of disruptions. What is critical is how we respond to them. Do they drive us to extinction, or do we find a way forward? 9 Jun 2021 Read more Today marks Africa Day and 58 years since the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was born. As the precursor to the African Union (AU), which formed in 1963, the day is an opportunity to remember and pay tribute to those who were dedicated to their cause - the liberation from colonial oppression; the economic and political integration of Africa; the restoration of dignity for every African man, woman and child. It is a day on which to celebrate our diversity and heritage and share dances, songs and traditional dress from across the continent. 25 May 2021 Read more |
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