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.
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.
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.
Working group convened to discuss Article 14 of the ACHPR Protocol on the Rights of Women
Centre for Human Rights (Gender Unit)
Posted on 14 Jun 2012
The Centre for Human Rights, with support from the Solidarity for Women's Rights Network, recently constituted a working group of experts, drawn from various organisations dealing with HIV/AIDS and related matters, at the University of Pretoria.
Tuks RAG: Crowning of Miss Tuks RAG Queen
Shaun Carvalho-Malekane
Posted on 02 Feb 2012
The crowning of the Debutante who will take up the role of Miss Tuks RAG Queen sees the final step in a 7-month programme which started with over 80 girls who have now been pared down to the Top 19.
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.
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.
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.
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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