Research News

  • The dark side of the hive

    Posted on May 17, 2021

    Prof Robin Crewe is the co-author of Dark Side of the Hive, a book that forces us to re-examine everything we thought we knew about honey bees.

  • UP takes 4IR diagnostic technology to grain farmers

    Posted on May 14, 2021

    This initiative is an attempt to bring fourth industrial revolution technologies to smallholder farmers across SA to help them increase their productivity and competitiveness.

  • ARUA Early-Career Research Fellowships

    Posted on May 13, 2021

    Research Fellowship initiated by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to support a total of thirteen (13) Early-Career Research Fellows to undertake globally competitive research at the ARUA Centres of Excellence (CoEs).

  • “New Deal” for Africa's Sahel region needs entrepreneurs to transform land, water resources

    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

  • Research offers you the ability to make a difference in the world

    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)

  • Learn from failure and continue to grow

    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...

  • Science is exhilarating

    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

  • NEW BEGINNINGS AT NAS: Meet Dr Mathibele Nchabeleng

    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.

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