Posted on May 07, 2021
99% of Africa's Sahel groundwater is untapped. Tapped, it could help float a "New Deal" of prosperity, especially for women and youth - Prof Cheikh Mbow, land-use expert and @FutureAfricaUP Director
Posted on May 06, 2021
Congratulations to the 10 UP academics and researchers who won big at the recently announced Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and the Arts) annual awards.
Posted on May 05, 2021
We chatted to one of our recent master’s graduates, Tatenda Mutungira about his experience with completing his degree.
Posted on May 04, 2021
Scarce skills in Natural and Agricultural Sciences A researcher who focuses on facial morphology and developing non-invasive diagnostic tools for a variety of conditions: Prof Vinet Coetzee (Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology)
Posted on April 25, 2021
Featuring a scientist in Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS): Prof Lyn-Marie Birkholtz (Professor in Biochemistry and Director of the DST/NRF South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Sustainable Malaria Control. She also leads the Parasite Cluster in the UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria...
Posted on April 22, 2021
NAS Featured scientist: Prof Lise Korsten (Professor in Plant Pathology and Co-Director of the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security
Posted on April 16, 2021
Two UP researchers receive R5,6m in grants to aid research into improving food security and nutrition
Posted on April 16, 2021
The Department of Library Services (DLS) kindly reminds each lecturer to submit a legal deposit copy of their latest examination paper(s) to the DLS.
Posted on April 16, 2021
Meet Dr Mathibele Nchabeleng was appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences earlier this year.
Posted on April 14, 2021
Research by an international team of scientists led by the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Dr Jack Radcliffe has clarified the eating habits of massive black holes.
Posted on April 09, 2021
Meet Dr Bernard Coetzee, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Zoology and Entomology who was appointed to the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences in March this year.
Posted on April 02, 2021
The University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) celebrated World Meteorological Day in style with the launch of the [email protected] initiative on 23 March 2021.
Posted on April 14, 2021
Professor Abba B Gumel, Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Pretoria (UP), recently had the honour of delivering the annual American Mathematical Society (AMS) Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics for 2021. Titled...
Posted on March 31, 2021
The Department of Library Services together with the Faculty of Humanities has developed a journal publishing and hosting service using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.
Posted on March 30, 2021
Adults are entitled by law to smoke or consume cannabis (dagga) in private – but what happens when a company tests the blood, urine or saliva of an employee and finds traces of dagga a day later, or even a week later?
Posted on March 24, 2021
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration – which produced the first-ever image of a black hole and of which the University of Pretoria (UP) is an associate institute – has revealed a new view of the massive object at the centre of the M87 galaxy: what it looks like in polarised...
Posted on March 24, 2021
NAS Featured scientist: Prof Jan Verschoor (Research Leader: Tuberculosis Research Group in the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology)
Posted on March 23, 2021
Scarce skills in Natural and Agricultural Sciences Focus on a Weather Forecaster: Prof Liesl Dyson (Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology)
Posted on March 21, 2021
In celebration of Human Rights Day today (21 March), we asked a few staff members from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) to share their views on human rights.
Posted on March 21, 2021
NAS Featured scientist, Prof Paxie W Chirwa (SAFCOL Forest Chair and Director of the Forest Science Postgraduate Programme)
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