Posted on August 26, 2025
The University of Pretoria (UP) has cemented its position as a powerhouse for women in science
Posted on August 25, 2025
The theme of this edition, ‘Global’, illustrates how the University of Pretoria (UP) serves as a globally engaged, continental hub that is driving impactful research through innovation, creativity and sustainability. The research in this issue demonstrates how the research we do today...
Posted on August 21, 2025
With a footprint of over one million square metres of floor space, 1200 hectares of land, and a student population of over 55 000, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) carbon footprint calculation of each of its activities, procurements and operations is a major undertaking.
Posted on August 16, 2025
The University of Pretoria (UP) was alive with excitement as thousands of prospective students arrived for Choose UP Day 2025. The event gave conditionally admitted students the chance to experience the University’s renowned academic environment and welcoming campus life.
Posted on August 12, 2025
University of Pretoria (UP) doctoral candidate Kyle Smith is on a mission to find out all about one of Southern Africa’s most elusive small carnivores: the African striped weasel – and he needs your help. Smith is calling on members of the public and citizen scientists to help him by...
Posted on August 05, 2025
The lily pond was built in 1960 and is a place of tranquillity and a source of inspiration for painters and sketch artists
Posted on August 04, 2025
Jordan's research examines aardvark burrows, specifically how they provide ecological refuge.
Posted on August 01, 2025
The University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that its researchers have received five major honours at the 2025 National Science and Technology Forum-South32 (NSTF-South32) Awards
Posted on July 28, 2025
University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have become the first to document a disturbing new threat to the endangered grey-headed albatross: wind-driven, land-based deaths. The team documented the phenomenon on remote Marion Island during the sub-Antarctic summer. The study, published in the...
Posted on July 21, 2025
Nominations for the 2025 UP SRC Elections are now open.
Posted on July 17, 2025
Ten of the fourteen University of Pretoria (UP) finalists for the 2024/2025 National Science and Technology Foundation (NSTF) Awards hail from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS).
Posted on July 07, 2025
Prof Cobus Visagie from the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology and the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) recently received the prestigious Johanna Westerdijk Award for outstanding contribution to the culture collection of the Westerdijk Fungal...
Posted on July 04, 2025
UP celebrates zoology lecturer Dr Danial Hart for his innovative work in translational evolutionary biology.
Posted on July 04, 2025
UP is calling on alumni, partners and the public to support students facing hunger and financial hardship
Posted on July 04, 2025
Professor Nigel Bennett, the current Austin Roberts chair of African mammalogy and past DSTI-NRF chair of Mammal Behavioural Ecology and Physiology, celebrated his 500th publication in October 2024.
Posted on July 01, 2025
Two professors from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), Prof Paxie W Chirwa and Prof Eugenie Kayitesi have recently been elected as Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS).
Posted on June 30, 2025
Four UP employees raised R28 020 in donations by completing the Comrades Marathon.
Posted on June 30, 2025
The UP's Alumni Relations Office has launched Season 5 of its acclaimed LeadUP Podcast
Posted on June 30, 2025
A collaboration agreement between the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG) and the University of Pretoria (UP) marks a significant milestone in the food safety/hygiene education field in South Africa and Africa. This agreement is even more noteworthy because UP is the first...
Posted on June 27, 2025
Oil spills are among the most visible environmental impacts of maritime shipping
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