Posted on May 16, 2025
"Unlocking Opportunities: ACS Resources for Career Advancement in Research and Academia"
Posted on March 18, 2025
Title: Human sebum consists of a very well-defined set of chemicals and plays a pivotal role in maintaining healthy skin
Posted on February 25, 2025
Title: Your reaction pathway to a greater you
Posted on February 13, 2025
Title: Nano-Engineered Surfaces and Interfaces for Clean Energy and Sensor Applications
Posted on August 21, 2024
Women’s Month: Focus on Mrs Ria Swart, Administrator: Department of Chemistry
Posted on July 12, 2024
Ever heard of ruthenium? It’s one of the rarest-known metals – and the focus of UP chemistry lecturer Dr Frikkie Malan’s research. He chats about his discipline and the work he does with young people to inspire in them a love of science.
Posted on July 04, 2024
Young children in Krugersdorp are breathing in uranium, arsenic and mercury fumes wafting over from abandoned legacy mines, while pollutants are seeping into the groundwater and nearby dams and lakes, cautions Dr Alseno Kagiso Mosai, a water remediation expert at the University of...
Posted on June 27, 2024
Professor Patricia Forbes from the University of Pretoria has been elected as the National Representative of the Analytical Chemistry division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
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 December 11, 2023
The third edition for 2023 (December 2023) of the NAS Faculty newsletter (SquaredUP) is now available
Posted on December 08, 2023
“Acknowledging young scientists is important to build their confidence and recognise that their voice matters,” says Petra van der Merwe, UP student and winner of the regional IOCD Essay Competition on chemical sciences for sustainability.
Posted on September 20, 2023
Gizelle van Niekerk, a cum laude graduate in MSc Chemistry, was recently awarded the Presidential medal for outstanding academic achievement by the President of Portugal. This factors in both undergraduate and postgraduate studies at UP.
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 July 12, 2023
More than 60 prizes were awarded at the Annual Exceptional Achievers Function for the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences students in June this year.
Posted on June 23, 2023
NAS boasts seven finalists in NSTF’s ‘Science Oscars’, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Posted on June 20, 2023
An integral part of the research of the UP Biodiscovery Centre and the M2Bio Sciences Research Chair will be to use AI for the discovery of natural product lead compounds that can be developed as pharmaceutical and food ingredients.
Posted on June 13, 2023
The first edition for 2023 (May 2023) of the NAS Faculty newsletter (SquaredUP) is now available.
Posted on February 09, 2023
Experts at the University of Pretoria (UP) are a step closer to finding a drug that could prevent transmission of the malaria-carrying parasite Plasmodium falciparum by thwarting its life cycle.
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