Posted on November 06, 2018
The University of Pretoria congratulates Serena Coetzee on her appointment as Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology (GGM) in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. She had served as acting Head of Department since March 2018.
Posted on November 05, 2018
World-renowned University of Pretoria veterinarians Prof Gerhard Steenkamp and Dr Adrian Tordiffe this week performed intricate dental surgery on an elephant in Georgia, to remove its infected tusk.
Posted on November 05, 2018
Reading scientific literature isn’t for the faint-hearted. It’s dense, and very often full of foreign terms and ideas. It also assumes a basic understanding of the discipline in question – I can’t imagine that many people outside the world of theoretical physics are...
Posted on November 02, 2018
University of Pretoria postgraduate students Pheladi Venda Tlhatlha and Nsilulu Tresor Mbungu have each received a prestigious annual award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for their participation in the Green Talents International Forum for High Potentials in...
Posted on November 01, 2018
The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics is celebrating 10 years of Mathematical Biology at UP this year. In 2008, the Department drove the decision to make Mathematical Biology a strategic research focus for the Department.
Posted on October 30, 2018
For the third year in a row, hunger is rising across the world. And, as a recent report by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation shows, the situation is worsening in most regions in Africa. Almost 21% of the continent’s population of 1,216 billion is undernourished.
Posted on October 25, 2018
For the third year in a row hunger is rising across the world. And, as a recent report by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation shows, the situation is worsening in most regions in Africa. Almost 21% of the continent’s population of 1,216 billion is undernourished....
Posted on October 19, 2018
Eight academics from the University of Pretoria (UP) are among 20 of the country’s leading scholars and scientists recently inaugurated as members of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
Posted on October 16, 2018
Dr Thulani Makhalanyane, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Pretoria, has recently been elected to the board of the International Society of Microbial Ecology (ISME). The board currently has 12 directors from the USA, Europe, South...
Posted on October 16, 2018
The 2018 UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report reveals a sad and urgent reality: World hunger is on the rise again. The report shows a third consecutive year of increase, with the number of undernourished people worldwide increasing to...
Posted on October 15, 2018
The recent listeriosis outbreak in South Africa has made the topic of food safety even more urgent. From 15 to 17 October 2018, food safety experts and scholars from around the world will gather at the St George’s Hotel, Pretoria, for the 2nd International Conference for Food Safety and...
Posted on October 11, 2018
There was global excitement when MeerKAT, the biggest radio telescope in the world, was launched in Carnarvon in the Northern Cape in July. But few people could have been as excited as Professor Roger Deane, who heads up the University of Pretoria’s radio astronomy research team in the...
Posted on October 02, 2018
‘First I was overjoyed when I received the email informing me that I had been nominated for the Department of Science and Technology (DST) doctoral fellowship, and then absolutely thrilled to be a winner of this prestigious award.’ These were the words of an elated Ms Danielle...
Posted on October 02, 2018
Prof Christian Pirk, Head of the Social Insects Research Group in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pretoria (UP), was recently named a top reviewer in Publons' global Peer Review Awards after having been placed among the top 1% of reviewers in Plant and Animal Science...
Posted on September 27, 2018
If you lived in London at the height of William Shakespeare’s fame, in the 15th century, you probably knew a fair amount about plants. The famous playwright often alluded to potions and poisons derived from plants, and most of his audience would have recognised them. By comparison, research...
Posted on September 19, 2018
A new species of woodlouse has been discovered inside termite mounds in the northern Kruger National Park, east of Phalaborwa and near Mopani Rest Camp, by University of Pretoria (UP) entomologist Dr Victor Meyer. There are more than 3 500 species of woodlice in the world, and this is the...
Posted on September 13, 2018
A Research Chair in Biostatistics, which will focus on solving inter-disciplinary health problems in Africa, such as tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, cancer, substance abuse and Ebola, was launched recently at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on September 12, 2018
Dr Irene Barnes, from the University of Pretoria’s Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), has been awarded the internationally acclaimed 2018 Ethel Mary Doidge Medal for outstanding early career research in mycology.
Posted on September 10, 2018
Ms Ina Wilken (72), a consumer specialist and advisor, received a master’s degree in Consumer Sciences from the University of Pretoria this week. Ms Wilken is committed to uplifting consumers and advocating for their rights and dedicates many hours to this noble cause. She has been closely...
Posted on August 31, 2018
Prof Armanda Bastos has always cared for animal welfare, but it was probably her first field trip to the Kruger National Park as a veterinary researcher that inspired her most to dedicate her professional life to animal disease control research. As part of a research team, Prof Bastos was...
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