UP master’s student wins South African Chemical Institute’s James Moir Medal

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...

Latest T&L@NAS Bulletin (2020) now available

Posted on February 06, 2020

Latest T&L@NAS Bulletin (2020) now available

NAS celebrates excellence in teaching

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 FLY@NAS event for 2019, cluster awards in all four clusters (Biological Sciences, Food and Agricultural Sciences,...

Dr Hanieh Montaseri wins SACI postgraduate award

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.

Third successful interdisciplinary training school on solar energy and photosynthesis held at UP

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...

UP master’s student wins prize for best paper at National Association for Clean Air Conference

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.

NATHouse scooped up more than a handful of awards

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.

First Soapbox at NAS with two renowned academics

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’.