Posted on November 16, 2015
The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics recently made their presence felt at the 58th Annual Congress of the South African Mathematics Society (SAMS). Two staff members were elected as council members and two PhD students received awards for their presentations.
Posted on November 10, 2015
Prof Braam van Wyk, a world renowned botanist and plant taxonomist from the Department of Plant Science at the University of Pretoria, was recently honoured with an Alumni Award of Excellence by the North-West University (NWU).
Posted on November 06, 2015
Earlier this year, two PhD candidates in food science from the University of Pretoria (UP), were among a group of only 19 students from across the world selected to present papers at the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP).
Posted on November 05, 2015
Dr Abdullahi Yusuf of the Social Insects Research Group (SIRG) in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at UP, was awarded a Georg Forster Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany.
Posted on November 02, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP) and the French Agricultural Research and International Cooperation organisation, working for the sustainable development in the South (CIRAD), have recently signed a five-year agreement establishing the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at UP...
Posted on October 26, 2015
The University of Pretoria and Prof Rosemary Gray recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding as partners of the prestigious University of Pretoria (UP) Derek Gray Award.
Posted on October 19, 2015
Lawrence Haddad had the rare opportunity to share a global nutrition report, hot off the press, with an eager-to-engage multi-sectoral audience when he presented an overview of the Global Nutrition Report at the Indaba Hotel in Johannesburg on Friday, 2 October 2015.
Posted on October 15, 2015
Scientists and industry leaders in plant science recently shared the latest advances in plant breeding at the Second Annual DuPont Plant Breeding Symposium Africa, held at the University of Pretoria (UP).
Posted on October 15, 2015
Prof Tahir Pillay is hoping that his new interactive mathematics textbook, which is available for use on the Apple iPad, will make life a little easier for students enrolled for the Mathematics for Laboratory Medicine course.
Posted on October 14, 2015
Prof Russ Taylor, a leader in the field of radio astronomy who is closely involved with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, visited the University of Pretoria on Monday and delivered a lecture on the SKA project and the data challenges it poses.
Posted on October 09, 2015
The newly appointed Head of the School of Plant and Crop Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), Prof Nigel Barker, would like the new School to do its best to cure 'plant blindness'.
Posted on October 09, 2015
The Programme in Agricultural and Rural Finance provides both context and a deeper understanding of what is needed to reach out to smallholder farmers and low-income rural households, and to sustainably serve them with an appropriate range of financial products and services.
Posted on October 08, 2015
2015 marks the first year that a student team from the University of Pretoria (UP) participated in the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition and only the third time that an African team participated in this prestigious event.
Posted on September 30, 2015
The 2015 Global Nutrition Report will be launched on Friday, 2 October 2015 at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways, Johannesburg. The report is the first comprehensive summary and scorecard on both global and country level progress regarding all forms of nutrition across 193 countries.
Posted on September 28, 2015
It is a modern day tragedy that the ancient scourge of rabies – entirely preventable with today’s vaccines – continues to cause unspeakable suffering in Africa for no other reason than a lack of awareness.
Posted on September 14, 2015
The recent epidemic outbreak of American Foulbrood disease in the Western Cape and the subsequent honeybee colony losses is a great cause for concern since the production of almost a third of the food humans consume depends on honeybee pollination.
Posted on September 10, 2015
Dr Lungile Sitole, one of the Mail & Guardian top 200 young South Africans in 2015 and a recipient of a ‘Women in Science’ (WISA) award from the Department of Science and Technology in 2014, received her PhD degree in Biochemistry at the University of Pretoria’s recent...
Posted on September 08, 2015
Prof Kerstin Krüger has been monitoring the flight patterns of different aphid species and researched their efficiency in transmitting viruses that threaten the South African seed potato industry.
Posted on September 03, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP) has been awarded four new research chairs under the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI).
Posted on September 01, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP) was selected by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) in the USA to host an African Diaspora scholar, Dr Paddington Hodza.
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