Posted on March 13, 2015
A team consisting of amateur naturalists and students from the Department of Zoology and Entomology will attempt to record all living species within a designated area over a predetermined time period.
Posted on March 11, 2015
UP research has found that leopard survival rates in protected, as well as in non-protected areas, are low and that this is largely a result of human activities.
Posted on March 11, 2015
Food safety research, challenges and cooperative extension were the topics that Professors Cathy Strohbehn and Lakshman Rajagopal shared with faculty staff members and postgraduate students attending the mini symposium on Food Safety Challenges and Opportunities during the last week of February.
Posted on February 23, 2015
Research by Prof Mohammad Naushad Emmambux, associate professor at UP’s Department of Food Science, and his colleagues has shown that it is possible to modify high GI starch using fatty acids so that it becomes a low GI starch.
Posted on February 19, 2015
Imagine castles of clay and flourishing life in the soils below. Endemic to the soils of Africa is the fascinating small mammal known as the mole-rat that lives underground, excavating burrow systems that may extend for more than a kilometre.
Posted on February 04, 2015
Prof Brenda Wingfield has received the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon medal - the highest award that the SASPP can make to a member.
Posted on November 27, 2014
Research done at the University of Pretoria has found that the abundant occurrence of two species of midges that cause AHS could be due to their ability to withstand cold temperatures.
Posted on November 14, 2014
An acclaimed international study looking into new reasons behind the dwindling numbers of cheetah in southern Africa had its inception at the University of Pretoria.
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