New interactive textbook to take the sting out of laboratory mathematics

Posted on October 15, 2015

Prof Tahir Pillay is hoping that his new interactive mathematics textbook, which is available for use on the Apple iPad, will make life a little easier for students enrolled for the Mathematics for Laboratory Medicine course.

Data Science is the way of the future

Posted on October 14, 2015

Prof Russ Taylor, a leader in the field of radio astronomy who is closely involved with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, visited the University of Pretoria on Monday and delivered a lecture on the SKA project and the data challenges it poses.

Prof Barker strives to cure 'plant blindness'

Posted on October 09, 2015

The newly appointed Head of the School of Plant and Crop Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), Prof Nigel Barker, would like the new School to do its best to cure 'plant blindness'.

Addressing the needs of smallholder farmers

Posted on October 09, 2015

The Programme in Agricultural and Rural Finance provides both context and a deeper understanding of what is needed to reach out to smallholder farmers and low-income rural households, and to sustainably serve them with an appropriate range of financial products and services.

UP students compete in international synthetic biology competition

Posted on October 08, 2015

2015 marks the first year that a student team from the University of Pretoria (UP) participated in the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition and only the third time that an African team participated in this prestigious event.

'It is possible to reduce all forms of malnutrition by 2030', says report

Posted on September 30, 2015

The 2015 Global Nutrition Report will be launched on Friday, 2 October 2015 at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways, Johannesburg. The report is the first comprehensive summary and scorecard on both global and country level progress regarding all forms of nutrition across 193 countries.

World Rabies Day 28 September 2015

Posted on September 28, 2015

It is a modern day tragedy that the ancient scourge of rabies – entirely preventable with today’s vaccines – continues to cause unspeakable suffering in Africa for no other reason than a lack of awareness.

Honey, food and wine

Posted on September 14, 2015

The recent epidemic outbreak of American Foulbrood disease in the Western Cape and the subsequent honeybee colony losses is a great cause for concern since the production of almost a third of the food humans consume depends on honeybee pollination.