Sustainability: 'we all have to learn from each other'

Posted on June 04, 2018

Prof Howard Apsan, Director of Environmental, Health, Safety and Risk Management at The City University of New York, recently delivered a guest lecture on ‘Community and sustainability’, at the University of Pretoria’s Sustainable Development Goals Lecture Series.

Poor consumers let down by ineffective listeriosis messaging

Posted on May 30, 2018

More than two months have passed since the World Health Organisation confirmed that the listeriosis outbreak in SA was the biggest globally, and consumers in the country were cautioned about the dangers of consuming contaminated products.

Learning by experience at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development

Posted on May 16, 2018

I would highly recommend that each student pursuing a degree in Agriculture attend these excursions to the experimental farm hosted by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development. Natalie Portman (Star Wars, Thor) once said: “I do not like studying – I...

Record harvest for LEVLO at recent graduation ceremonies

Posted on May 09, 2018

The 2018 autumn graduation ceremony marked a record harvest of graduates for the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development. The Department graduated eight PhD students; six in Agricultural Economics, one in Rural Development and one in Environmental Economics.

Against the odds

Posted on May 03, 2018

Zak Claasen studied in the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and has completed a BSc in Genetics with distinction. This is an extraordinary feat for any student, but even more so because Zak is blind.

“Brian Sharp Award” for Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology Postdoctoral Fellow

Posted on April 26, 2018

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology wins “Brian Sharp Award” at the 7th MIM Pan African Malaria conference

Australian volunteer has praise for Sci-Enza

Posted on April 24, 2018

‘Having the opportunity to collaborate with Sci-Enza’s team and observe the Centre’s community outreach programme has been a fulfilling experience,’ says Leticia Brown, a communications and media consultant in the Australian government’s Volunteer Program. Leticia...

State-of-the-art biomolecular laboratories create opportunities for collaboration

Posted on April 18, 2018

“These world-class laboratories will allow us to consolidate and grow our research base in the newly consolidated Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology under Prof Paulette Bloomer.” These sentiments were shared in March this year by the Vice-Chancellor and Principal,...