Posted on February 20, 2025
Kean Jacobs & Jorja Ashford, Animal Nutrition MSc candidates, win national competition.
Posted on January 22, 2025
Phina Mdaka, an Animal Science PhD candidate, was the top 2024 Taaibosch Piggery intern.
Posted on November 19, 2024
From postgrad students winning a debate competition to professors receiving prestigious awards.
Posted on August 13, 2024
Women’s Month: Focus on PhD candidate Rimbilana Shingange
Posted on August 12, 2024
Tuks alumnus, Dr Peter Plumstead, receives life mentorship award from SA Poultry Science Association
Posted on July 26, 2024
We are excited to invite you and your family to the University of Pretoria (UP) #ChooseUP Day, which takes place on Saturday 17 August 2024 from 08:00 to 14:00.
Posted on June 03, 2024
The first edition for 2024 (May 2024) of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences newsletter (SquaredUP) is now available.
Posted on April 10, 2024
Prof Hettie C Schönfeldt, a professor in the Department of Animal Science in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) at the University of Pretoria (UP), was recently appointed to the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the Committee on World...
Posted on March 27, 2024
UP third-year students participated in an artificial insemination certification exam.
Posted on March 27, 2024
Two of our students, Mr Gerhard Classen and Mr Kyle Coetzee came 1st and 3rd.
Posted on January 09, 2024
UP collaborates with key stakeholders to host the first ever Welfare Workshop
Posted on January 08, 2024
Annually, our final year students take a tour of farms in the Vrede farming district.
Posted on December 18, 2023
Gerhard Claasen, an alumnus with a master’s degree in Animal Nutrition, not only graduated cum laude in September 2023 but was also the overall winner of the AFMA Intervarsity Writers Cup.
Posted on December 11, 2023
The third edition for 2023 (December 2023) of the NAS Faculty newsletter (SquaredUP) is now available
Posted on September 13, 2023
The second edition for 2023 (September 2023) of the NAS Faculty newsletter (SquaredUP) is now available.
Posted on September 11, 2023
The inaugural NAS Research Symposium was a proud occasion for the Faculty, hosted as a hybrid event on 29 and 30 August in the SANLAM Auditorium on the Hatfield Campus.
Posted on September 05, 2023
UPstarters, an innovative way to grow our timber and improve teaching skills, has grown in leaps and bounds and continues empowering teaching staff in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS).
Posted on August 31, 2023
Women academics in the Department of Animal Science achieved many milestones during Women's Month
Posted on August 31, 2023
The David Uys trophy awarded to Dr Dina Linde for the best scientific article published in SAJAS
Posted on August 07, 2023
Two women researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP) – Dr Thobela Nkukwana and Dr Tafadzwa Mushonga – have been awarded places in the prestigious Horizons Institute Crucible Programme for 2023/2024.
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