News & Events (Archive)

Prof Lourie Terblanche receives EAPA Member of the Year award
Liana le Roux
Posted on 16 Nov 2012

Prof Lourie Terblanche from our Department was recently awarded ‘EAPA Member of the Year’ at the Annual International Conference of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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Caster Semenya wins silver in London
Danie Cornelius
Posted on 12 Aug 2012

When Caster Semenya was chosen to carry the SA flag during the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, it was a good omen of things to come for the 21-year-old Tukkie athlete.

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TuksSport bags another Olympic medal
Morris Gilbert
Posted on 10 Aug 2012

TuksSport has bagged another medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

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Tuks players selected for the Gauteng North Senior Netball team
Riana Bezuidenhout
Posted on 14 Jun 2012

Congratulations to all Tuks Divas and Tuks 1 players who were selected in the Gauteng North Senior Ladies A and B squads. The tournament is taking place in Johannesburg from 5 - 11 August 2012.

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UP shines at 48th SASPP Congress
Prof Teresa Coutinho
Posted on 31 Jan 2013

Students and staff of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences flew the University’s flag high at the recent 48th Congress of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology (SASPP) at Bela-Bela in Limpopo during January 2013. Several members of the departments of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Plant Science and Genetics attended the Congress during which they were rewarded for their scientific achievements and contributions to the society.

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Publishing workshop held with the aim to boost research output
EMS Office for Research Support
Posted on 31 Jan 2013

The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences hosted a publishing productively workshop from 21 to 25 January 2013 at the Farm Inn in Pretoria.

Nineteen staff members of the Faculty attended the workshop. Participants were divided into groups, consisting of three persons per group, where peer reviewing of each of the papers took place. Senior researchers were grouped together. Senior faculty members also assisted the groups consisting of junior researchers.

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Department of Financial Management staff honoured for outstanding research
Department of Financial Management
Posted on 31 Jan 2013

Prof Henco van Schalkwyk, Head of the Department of Financial Management, and Ms Michelle Reyers, a staff member in the same department, attended the 23rd annual Southern African Finance Association (SAFA) conference that was held in Cape Town on 24 and 25 January 2013.

Prof Van Schalkwyk won the the Alexander Forbes prize for the best research presented at the SAFA 2013 conference relating to investment management or behavioural research on retirement fund members' decision-making.

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Joint research project between UP and Swedish university concludes
Mrs Liza Siefe
Posted on 30 Jan 2013

From 30 January to 3 February 2013, 12 colleagues from the Jönköping University in Sweden, including three visiting scholars, Prof Mats Granlund, Prof Rune Simeonsson and Prof Ana Pinto will visit the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) to conclude a three-year long collaborative research project. A two-day workshop will be held entitled ‘Children with disability: Focus on human rights and intervention’, as well as collaborative small-group meetings between the Centre for AAC staff and PhD students and their Swedish peers to finalise joint publications.

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Welcoming Day 2013
Nicolize Mulder
Posted on 30 Jan 2013

More than 10 000 first year students accompanied by family and friends flocked to the University campuses on Saturday 26 January for UP’s annual Welcoming Day. The Welcoming Day programme on the Hatfield Campus included the Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Cheryl de la Rey’s welcoming speech in the Amphitheatre which was packed to capacity for all three sessions. Proceedings in the Amphitheatre were relayed to the Musaion auditorium which accommodated the overflow of attendees.

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Tree-planting tradition honoured on Welcoming Day
TuksAlumni
Posted on 28 Jan 2013

The University of Pretoria opened its doors for 2013 for students with the annual Welcoming Day for first-year students on 26 January. New students and their guests attended the day and were welcomed by the Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Cheryl de la Rey. Mr Tshiamo Maimane, a first-year student in Civil Engineering, planted a tree that represents the year group, and symbolises the new group of students who will themselves become alumni. Three Crossberry trees (Grewia occidentalis) were planted by Prof Cheryl de la Rey, Mr Leon de Kock, who represented the TuksAlumni Board, and Mr Tshiamo Maimane.

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