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...
Posted on December 16, 2019
Praises sung by the students were the order of the day when the awards for best first-year lecturer and best lecturer for senior courses were made at the annual breakfast of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences on 4 December 2019. The best first-year lecturer award was bestowed on...
Posted on December 11, 2019
Animal nutritionist and businessman Dr Hinner Köster, the newly-elected President of the Convocation of the University of Pretoria (UP), wants to strengthen alumni structures at the University so that they become fully inclusive and work together under one umbrella for one common goal.
Posted on December 11, 2019
Dr Hanieh Montaseri, who received a PhD from the Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria in April 2019, was recently awarded a South African Chemical Institute (SACI) Postgraduate Award.
Posted on December 10, 2019
Professor Frans Swanepoel, Fellow at the Centre for Advancement of Scholarship and Director: International Strategic Partnerships, was recently honored by RUFORUM during its 15th AGM in Ghana for his significant contributions in pursuit of excellence in higher education in Africa and creating...
Posted on December 06, 2019
The Department of Science and Innovation has suggested that universities need to increase their output of PhD graduates to 100 graduates per million people. At the moment South Africa has 46 doctoral graduates per million people.
Posted on December 05, 2019
One year ago United Nations Academic Impact announced the inauguration of the UNAI SDG Hubs, UNAI member institutions selected as exemplars for their innovative scholarship and engagement related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) who serve as resources for best practices for the UNAI...
Posted on December 05, 2019
Professor Esté van Marle-Köster, Head of the Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been given the award for Gauteng Agriculturist of the Year. She received this prestigious award from Agricultural Writers South Africa at the association’s...
Posted on December 04, 2019
Scientific enquiry and the communication of science are essential to achieving universal goals related to development. The issue of the ethical conduct of science is sharply under focus concerning the contemporary demand for evidence-based policy.
Posted on November 28, 2019
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) research field of Biology and Biochemistry has been ranked within the top 1% globally, according to the Clarivate Analytics Essential Science Indicators (ESI), which was updated on 15 November 2019.
Posted on November 28, 2019
What does the average biologist have to do with programming microprocessors? Everything, as it turns out.
Posted on November 28, 2019
GISSA Gauteng Awards and Annual General Meeting were held on Thursday, 28 November at the Tatso Lounge Bar at Time Square in Pretoria. At the award ceremony institutions and individuals that have contributed to geoinformation science, education or GISSA were acknowledged. During the AGM portion...
Posted on November 27, 2019
Knowledge exchange and innovation to ultimately benefit health economics in South Africa were the main focus as the University of Pretoria (UP) and pathology and laboratory medicine services provider Ampath signed an addendum to a Memorandum of Agreement recently.
Posted on November 27, 2019
A very unique postgraduate spring school on solar energy and photosynthesis recently took place at the University of Pretoria (UP). This annual event, which attracts overwhelming interest, is unlike any other around the world due to three key elements: the African focus, the truly...
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