Research News

  • Have your (low GI) cake and eat it

    Posted on February 23, 2015

    Research by Prof Mohammad Naushad Emmambux, associate professor at UP’s Department of Food Science, and his colleagues has shown that it is possible to modify high GI starch using fatty acids so that it becomes a low GI starch.

  • Identity and diversity in SA examined through groundbreaking research

    Posted on February 23, 2015

    How do individuals with a biracial heritage construct an identity?

  • Learning from the intelligence and emotion of elephants

    Posted on February 16, 2015

    Dr Yolanda Pretorius of the Centre for Wildlife Management is an elephant specialist who believes that elephants has the ability to display exactly what they feel.

  • Vibrant life in the ground below

    Posted on February 12, 2015

    Imagine castles of clay and flourishing life in the soils below. Endemic to the soils of Africa is the fascinating small mammal known as the mole-rat that lives underground, excavating burrow systems that may extend for more than a kilometre.

  • Tax research brings global award to Africa for the first time

    Posted on February 10, 2015

    Professor Theuns Steyn, Associate Professor in the Department of Taxation, has been awarded the prestigious Australasian CCH/ATTA Doctoral Series 2015 Award.

  • Prof Brenda Wingfield honoured

    Posted on February 04, 2015

    Prof Brenda Wingfield has received the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon medal - the highest award that the SASPP can make to a member.

  • Research Chair tackles bird flu

    Posted on January 30, 2015

    The Research Chair in Poultry Health and Production, which was established jointly by the Southern African Poultry Association (SAPA) and the University of Pretoria (UP) in 2012, is taking the lead in research on poultry diseases.

  • Research to benefit the poorest of the poor

    Posted on January 22, 2015

    Johanita Kruger, a nutritional scientist at the University of Pretoria’s Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being (IFNuW) has been looking into feasible ways of enriching the mineral nutritional quality of the diets of the poor in order to decrease morbidity and mortality rates.

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