Posted on March 09, 2020
The University of Pretoria has improved its overall ranking in three of the four broad subject areas that the institution was ranked in, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020.
Posted on March 09, 2020
Over the past 12 years, the University of Pretoria has served as the incubator for an innovative research programme that was started by a bright postdoctoral fellow and two master’s students and has since become the world’s largest programme in avocado research.
Posted on March 04, 2020
Many policies emphasise the role of women in nutrition policies because in many societies cooking is considered to be a woman’s responsibility. By focusing on women, these policies are thought to be gender-responsive. But that’s often not the case.
Posted on March 04, 2020
Food insecurity is a major obstacle to development and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is a complex issue that cuts across traditional sectors in government and disciplines in academia. Understanding how multiple elements cause and influence food security is essential for...
Posted on March 03, 2020
With immense pride and a measure of sadness, the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development bid Prof Rashid Hassan, Emeritus Professor and former founding Director of the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) adieu.
Posted on February 28, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) has partnered with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), in Russia, in order to strengthen the University’s research efforts into nuclear sciences and related disciplines.
Posted on February 24, 2020
Professor Lise Korsten, co-director at the Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of Pretoria, discusses the importance of healthy food. She also looks at the steps that can be taken to ensure that outbreaks like the listeriosis outbreak that recently hit South Africa hard do not...
Posted on February 24, 2020
Prof Jean M-S Lubuma, former Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), at the University of Pretoria (UP) was recently awarded an A2-rating by the National Research Foundation (NRF).
Posted on February 21, 2020
Over the course of the past 3 months, six postgraduate students from the department partook in an international and interdisciplinary project called iPOLE.
Posted on February 19, 2020
Training the future meat producers of the country to produce top-quality meat is one of the focus areas at the Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP). This is also the goal of the South African Feedlot...
Posted on February 19, 2020
Google Code-in (GCI) is an annual online competition aimed at introducing pre-university students (13-17 years old) to open source projects, development and communities, through short 3-5 hour tasks.
Posted on February 18, 2020
More than two years have passed since the detection of what is arguably the most damaging tree pest ever to arrive in South Africa: the polyphagous shot hole borer (Euwallacea fornicatus). The beetle kills trees and there are no proven remedies.
Posted on February 17, 2020
University of Pretoria students Johannes Christoff Joubert and Joséphine Queffelec have made it to the semi-finals of the South African leg of FameLab, one of the biggest science communication competitions in the world.
Posted on February 07, 2020
Wiehan Rudolph, a master’s student in Analytical and Natural Product Chemistry at the University of Pretoria, has recently been awarded the James Moir Medal. The South African Chemical Institute annually awards this medal to the best BSc Honours student in Chemistry at each tertiary...
Posted on February 06, 2020
Latest T&L@NAS Bulletin (2020) now available
Posted on February 04, 2020
Andrew Hanson an BScHons Geoinformatics student participated in the 2019 DSIDE programme.
Posted on January 03, 2020
Welcome to the University of Pretoria and congratulations on choosing UP. You’ve made one of the best decisions of your life!
Posted on December 16, 2019
What started off as a departmental initiative grew exponentially and culminated in an awards ceremony where excellence in teaching was celebrated at Faculty level. At the last FLY@NAS event for 2019, cluster awards in all four clusters (Biological Sciences, Food and Agricultural Sciences,...
Posted on December 16, 2019
“Interdisciplinary research is a key competency for research-intensive universities such as the University of Pretoria, and we need to enable and amplify interdisciplinary research programmes so that we develop the capacity to respond meaningfully to global change challenges.” These...
Posted on December 16, 2019
Two internationally renowned researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP), Professor Mike Wingfield and Professor Pedro Crous, have been included on the 2019 Web of Science list of the world's most highly cited researchers. Prof Wingfield was the founding Director of the Forestry and...
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