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  • Prof Mike Wingfield receives another prestigious award

    Posted on May 30, 2012

    Prof Mike Wingfield, Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) at the University of Pretoria, has recently been awarded the prestigious Johanna Westerdijk Award by the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS) Fungal Biodiv

  • UP appoints international expert in Genomics

    Posted on May 18, 2012

    Prof Don Cowan, an international researcher of note and the former Director of the Institute Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) was appointed from 1 May to lead the newly established Centre for Genomics at

  • International expert speaks on ethical issues in water

    Posted on May 03, 2012

    Dr Jerome Delli Priscoli, a Senior Adviser of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) at the Institute for Water Resources recently delivered an address at an open lecture hosted by the UP Water Institute.

  • UP commemorates World Malaria Day

    Posted on April 26, 2012

    Scientists at the University of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) commemorated World Malaria Day in an effort to raise awareness for the fight against malaria on 25 April 2012.

  • Faculty celebrates academic excellence at Top Achievers function

    Posted on April 19, 2012

  • US assists in science education in Mamelodi

    Posted on April 18, 2012

    A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the United States of America Embassy and the University of Pretoria was signed on 5 April 2012. This MoU is a continuation of an established partnership between the two parties for the Mae Jemison US Science Rea

  • Leading geologist receives honorary doctorate

    Posted on April 17, 2012

    The University of Pretoria awarded an honorary doctoral degree to Prof Santosh M Warrier, much better known to the global geological community as Prof M Santosh and one of the world

  • Prof Nigel Bennett receives prestigious award

    Posted on April 04, 2012

    The Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns recently bestowed the Havenga Prize for Biological Sciences on Prof Nigel Bennett from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP).

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