Posted on August 14, 2018
The University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC) researchers scooped awards at the recent Southern African Malaria Research Conference held at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg. Hosted by the South African Medical Research Council,...
Posted on August 14, 2018
This was a clear message from the discussions at the triannual International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Vancouver, Canada. From the 28th of July to the 2nd of August the world’s agricultural economists got together at the 30th International Conference of Agricultural...
Posted on August 12, 2018
Dr Vinet Coetzee’s main research objective is to create workable health solutions for Africa that can be used in both hospitals and rural areas. Because access to adequate health facilities is often limited in Africa, she knows her approach has to be different. Using her expertise in...
Posted on August 03, 2018
The University of Pretoria (UP) believes that the education it affords its graduates should provide them with the skills, values and attributes that will not only enable them to fulfil their career aspirations, but also contribute to the life chances of others who do not yet have the...
Posted on July 31, 2018
The University of Pretoria (UP) is one of three South African universities taking a novel approach to analysing big data, building capacity and research expertise ahead of the deluge of data expected to come streaming in through new telescopes like the South African Radio Astronomy...
Posted on July 31, 2018
Official launch of the NAS T&L Bulletin - Wednesday 1 August 2018
Posted on July 30, 2018
A new study from the Conservation Ecology Research Unit (CERU) at the University of Pretoria set out to unravel migration in the world’s largest terrestrial mammal – the savanna elephant. Migration, a term often associated with wildebeest in the Serengeti, is more common amongst...
Posted on July 27, 2018
Prof Pell explained that the ‘Zero Hunger’ goal was not just to end world hunger but also to achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. “Food security is when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and...
Posted on July 20, 2018
Research led by scientists at the University of Pretoria (UP) has shed light on an evolutionary arms race with a twist. This research, conducted by Morgan J. Martin, a PhD student from UP has found that the small Heaviside’s dolphins (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii) selectively switch between...
Posted on July 19, 2018
A study by a University of Pretoria researcher into the ablution habits of white rhinos in the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, has revealed that these animals use their place of defecation to communicate with each other and take decisions that can affect their ecology.
Posted on July 17, 2018
Prof Roger Deane from the Department of Physics represented UP at the launch of the MeerKAT radio telescope, inaugurated by Deputy President David Mabuza in the Northern Cape. Built and operated by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), the MeerKAT comprises 64 radio dishes, each...
Posted on July 11, 2018
How many people can say they have had a planet has been named after them and that they have published internationally, all before reaching the age of 21? Bernard Smit, a final-year microbiology student at the University of Pretoria (UP), recently published an article in the international journal...
Posted on July 05, 2018
The UP-SUNCOI (UP-SU Community Outreach Initiative) project was launched.
Posted on July 03, 2018
Hunger is on the rise again worldwide, despite the rapid progress needed to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, which is to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Currently, one person in three is...
Posted on July 03, 2018
University of Pretoria (UP) academic, Dr Melissa van der Merwe and students Jodie Vosloo and Paige Bowen were part of two teams that excelled in a case study competition at the recent International Food and Agribusiness Management Association’s (IFAMA) Conference.
Posted on June 20, 2018
Dr Colleta Gandidzanwa, a researcher in the Department of Agricultural Economics Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria, attended the conference of the International Consortium on Applied Bio-economy Research (ICABR) at the World Bank in Washington DC from 12 to 15 June...
Posted on June 15, 2018
Khanimamba Hlungwani, a postgraduate student in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria (UP), and her team mates from other universities emerged as the winners of the prestigious 2018 Agbiz Student Case Study Competition.
Posted on June 11, 2018
Profs Namrita Lall, Xiaohua Xia, Mmantsae Diale, Kevin Wall and the University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC), headed by Prof Tiaan de Jager are category finalists in this year’s prestigious National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards.
Posted on June 11, 2018
On the 7th and 8th of June 2018, Dr Tracy Davids, a researcher at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, and manager of the Bureau of Food and Agricultural Policy’s commodity markets division attended the annual World Outlook Conference in Spiez,...
Posted on June 07, 2018
Prof Hettie Schönfeldt, Director of the African Research Universities Alliance Centre of Excellence for Food Security led by the University of Pretoria (UP), and an associate of the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Well-being, has won the bid for the first five-year cycle of the Department of...
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