Posted on November 07, 2018
The University of Pretoria congratulates Professor Sheryl Hendriks on her appointment as Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, which became effective 1 November.
Posted on November 06, 2018
A University of Pretoria researcher is calling for the creation of sustainable regulation systems to improve food safety in the informal sector, including food sales in informal settlements. “We need to develop a local system that can regulate the food being sold in our informal sector, to...
Posted on November 06, 2018
The University of Pretoria congratulates Serena Coetzee on her appointment as Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology (GGM) in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. She had served as acting Head of Department since March 2018.
Posted on November 05, 2018
World-renowned University of Pretoria veterinarians Prof Gerhard Steenkamp and Dr Adrian Tordiffe this week performed intricate dental surgery on an elephant in Georgia, to remove its infected tusk.
Posted on November 05, 2018
Reading scientific literature isn’t for the faint-hearted. It’s dense, and very often full of foreign terms and ideas. It also assumes a basic understanding of the discipline in question – I can’t imagine that many people outside the world of theoretical physics are...
Posted on November 02, 2018
University of Pretoria postgraduate students Pheladi Venda Tlhatlha and Nsilulu Tresor Mbungu have each received a prestigious annual award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for their participation in the Green Talents International Forum for High Potentials in...
Posted on November 01, 2018
The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics is celebrating 10 years of Mathematical Biology at UP this year. In 2008, the Department drove the decision to make Mathematical Biology a strategic research focus for the Department.
Posted on October 30, 2018
For the third year in a row, hunger is rising across the world. And, as a recent report by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation shows, the situation is worsening in most regions in Africa. Almost 21% of the continent’s population of 1,216 billion is undernourished.
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