Posted on February 16, 2021
It is well documented that mosquitoes use chemical compounds present on the human skin surface to locate and ultimately bite their human host. But why do mosquitoes prefer certain individuals above others? This was the research question set out to be answered by Madelien Wooding, PhD...
Posted on December 11, 2020
Madelien Wooding, PhD Candidate under the supervision of Dr Yvette Naudé, was selected as one of the 10 leading minds from Africa for her pioneering work and passion. The Power List celebrates the tremendous range of talent, ingenuity and leadership present across all corners of analytical science.
Posted on December 01, 2020
Professor Patricia Forbes, incumbent of the Rand Water Chemistry Research Chair in the Department of Chemistry at UP, was not only recently elected to the Professional Standards Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry, she has also been made a Fellow of the South African Chemical Institute.
Posted on February 07, 2020
Wiehan Rudolph, a master’s student in Analytical and Natural Product Chemistry at the University of Pretoria, has recently been awarded the James Moir Medal. The South African Chemical Institute annually awards this medal to the best BSc Honours student in Chemistry at each tertiary...
Posted on February 06, 2020
Latest T&[email protected] Bulletin (2020) now available
Posted on January 31, 2020
Prof Patricia Forbes was announced as the recipient of the prestigious Chromatographer of the Year award for 2019.
Posted on December 16, 2019
What started off as a departmental initiative grew exponentially and culminated in an awards ceremony where excellence in teaching was celebrated at Faculty level. At the last [email protected] event for 2019, cluster awards in all four clusters (Biological Sciences, Food and Agricultural Sciences,...
Posted on December 11, 2019
Dr Hanieh Montaseri, who received a PhD from the Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria in April 2019, was recently awarded a South African Chemical Institute (SACI) Postgraduate Award.
Posted on November 27, 2019
A very unique postgraduate spring school on solar energy and photosynthesis recently took place at the University of Pretoria (UP). This annual event, which attracts overwhelming interest, is unlike any other around the world due to three key elements: the African focus, the truly...
Posted on November 13, 2019
Amanda Mahlangu, a master’s student in Chemistry at the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, recently won an award for the Best Student Paper at the 2019 National Association for Clean Air Conference.
Posted on October 25, 2019
Not only did NATHouse win six awards at the annual Day and Faculty House Awards Ceremony hosted by the Division of Student Development (DSD) recently, but their Faculty Guardian, Dr Quenton Kritzinger, was also awarded as the Faculty Guardian of the Year. He also received this award in 2017.
Posted on October 02, 2019
Professor Barend Erasmus has been appointed as the Dean in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) at the University of Pretoria (UP) from 1 October 2019.
Posted on April 12, 2019
Mr Justin Harrison, a recent MSc graduate from the Department of Physics at the University of Pretoria (UP), is one of only 20 top young scientists from South Africa to attend the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to physics later this year in Lindau, Germany. The Academy of Science of...
Posted on April 05, 2019
Two seasoned academics from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), Prof Jan Verschoor (Biochemistry) and Prof Wentzel Schoeman (Chemistry) recently gave their own unique flavour to the term ‘soapbox’.
Posted on March 01, 2019
Professor Egmont Rohwer, who heads the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry, was recently awarded the prestigious Georg Forster award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. Every year, the Foundation...
Posted on February 04, 2019
The second issue of the 2019 NAS T&L Bulletin was officially launched on 1 February 2019. According to Dr Rory Biggs from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, one of the editorial members of the Bulletin, "The T&[email protected] Bulletin aims to be a forum for sharing thoughts,...
Posted on January 10, 2019
The University of Pretoria was proud to host 2016 Chemistry Nobel laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart recently, when he spoke at UP’s Future Africa campus. In his lecture, Sir Fraser said that, to be successful as academics, teachers should prioritise their students’ needs and put them ahead...
Posted on December 12, 2018
Our own Madelien Wooding was recently awarded a fellowship by the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Regional Programme.
Posted on November 28, 2018
Public lecture by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines” on 5 December 2018
Posted on July 31, 2018
Official launch of the NAS T&L Bulletin - Wednesday 1 August 2018
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