Caitlin Daniels, an MA Geography candidate, attended the Inaugural Black Geographies Collective Workshop in Cape Town

Posted on August 27, 2025

The Collective, founded by postgraduate students and early career researchers

RE.SEARCH 12: Global

Posted on August 25, 2025

The theme of this edition, ‘Global’, illustrates how the University of Pretoria (UP) serves as a globally engaged, continental hub that is driving impactful research through innovation, creativity and sustainability. The research in this issue demonstrates how the research we do today...

UP achieves an impressive reduction in carbon footprint

Posted on August 21, 2025

With a footprint of over one million square metres of floor space, 1200 hectares of land, and a student population of over 55 000, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) carbon footprint calculation of each of its activities, procurements and operations is a major undertaking.

Weasel watch: UP PhD candidate calls on public to share sightings of elusive African striped weasel

Posted on August 12, 2025

University of Pretoria (UP) doctoral candidate Kyle Smith is on a mission to find out all about one of Southern Africa’s most elusive small carnivores: the African striped weasel – and he needs your help. Smith is calling on members of the public and citizen scientists to help him by...

Important UP research on aardvark burrows combines agricultural sustainability with ecological conservation

Posted on August 04, 2025

Jordan's research examines aardvark burrows, specifically how they provide ecological refuge.

UP study first to document how deadly winds are driving deaths of endangered grey-headed albatross

Posted on July 28, 2025

University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have become the first to document a disturbing new threat to the endangered grey-headed albatross: wind-driven, land-based deaths. The team documented the phenomenon on remote Marion Island during the sub-Antarctic summer. The study, published in the...

NAS researchers lead the way in 2024/25 NSTF finalists list

Posted on July 17, 2025

Ten of the fourteen University of Pretoria (UP) finalists for the 2024/2025 National Science and Technology Foundation (NSTF) Awards hail from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS).

Prof Cobus Visagie receives prestigious Johanna Westerdijk Award

Posted on July 07, 2025

Prof Cobus Visagie from the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology and the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) recently received the prestigious Johanna Westerdijk Award for outstanding contribution to the culture collection of the Westerdijk Fungal...