Posted on March 26, 2020
The University of Pretoria is closely monitoring the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. The safety and well-being of our students and staff are paramount, and we are taking proactive steps to help ensure that we have a plan of action in place. We have established a task team to assist with...
Posted on March 17, 2020
Dikeledi Moche, Senior Management Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), was announced as a Tammy Taylor Mrs South Africa semi-finalist for 2020.
Posted on March 13, 2020
The current COVID-19 outbreak is driven by a novel coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) that is spreading between people. The first human infections were reported at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province in China when a cluster of 41 pneumonia cases was identified. Deeper analysis showed that it...
Posted on March 12, 2020
Quentin Guignard, a PhD student in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pretoria, recently won a writing competition held in conjunction with the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB) and The Conversation Africa. His cash prize of R30 000 will...
Posted on March 11, 2020
Two highly respected University of Pretoria academics, Professor Jean M-S Lubuma and Professor James Ogude have been awarded A-2 ratings by the National Research Foundation (NRF), bringing UP’s total number of scientists in this category to 16.
Posted on March 11, 2020
With generous support from the National Research Foundation (Grant Number 120587), the the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) hosted Prof. Willinger between 26 February and 9 March 2020. Prof Marc Willinger is a professor of economics at the University of Montpellier...
Posted on March 10, 2020
The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics proudly celebrates the UP Teaching Excellence Award winner, Dr Rory Biggs.
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.
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