Model enables risk predictions for avian flu

Posted on June 24, 2016

Most countries are not well prepared to cope with a possible avian influenza pandemic. Dr Folorunso Oludayo Fasina from the Faculty of Veterinary Science has developed a risk model to limit the spread of this disease.

Phytomedicine students receive prestigious research awards

Posted on June 22, 2016

The quality of students enrolled in the Phytomedicine Programme offered by the Department of Paraclinical Sciences in the Faculty of Veterinary Science was recently highlighted when three PhD students, Drs Olubukola Adenubi and Abimbola Aro, and Ms Bellonah Sakong, received prestigious research...

Prof Hoobler invited to serve on prestigious editorial board

Posted on June 21, 2016

Prof Jenny Hoobler, Acting Head of the Department of Human Resource Management, has been invited to join the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal, the top empirical journal in the field of management internationally.

Livestock protein supplement of the future

Posted on June 21, 2016

Ms Nina Parry, a master's student in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at UP, is investigating the use of fly maggots to reduce organic waste and to process these maggots into a protein for livestock and farmed fish.

UP ISMC expands research links into Asia

Posted on June 15, 2016

Recognising that Asia faces many of the same challenges as Africa with regard to vector control, the UP ISMC's Prof Leo Braack recently spent time working with malaria specialists and entomologists in Myanmar.

The deadly selfie game - the thrill to end all thrills

Posted on June 07, 2016

According to the popular press it was more likely in 2015 for a person to die while taking a selfie than to be killed by a shark - this is globally.

UP's Veterinary Genetics Laboratory partners with key international role players to address wildlife crime

Posted on June 06, 2016

A workshop for collaborative action planning, organised by the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL), will take place from 18 to 24 June and will include representatives of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network (TRAFFIC) and the Wildlife Forensics Network...

From Centre to Institute: chronicling five years of achievements

Posted on June 03, 2016

The establishment of the University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC) was approved by the UP Senate on Thursday, 2 June 2016.