Posted on February 02, 2018
Mammals move shorter distance in human-modified landscapes, which may affect ecosystems and society.
Posted on January 29, 2018
“Receiving this award has tremendous significance by not only motivating me to keep pushing and doing better, but also proving to myself that I can achieve more than what I deem possible. This is the first award of such calibre that I received.” Mr Renaan Shane Thompson, a PhD...
Posted on January 19, 2018
Larissa Pillay a BSc Hons student attend the African Youth SDG Summit in Accra, Ghana, 1-2 Nov 2017.
Posted on December 15, 2017
The University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control has launched a mobile application (app) focusing on informing people, mainly tourists, about malaria.
Posted on December 14, 2017
The Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN) recently brought together 55 Australian and African experts from academia, government, the diplomatic service, business and agencies to assess education and research partnerships in development, the engagement of stakeholders, and building...
Posted on December 11, 2017
'Don’t let your background determine your future. You should dream big and not be scared to venture into new territories.' These are the inspirational words of Miss Fhatuwani Nemakhavhani who recently became the first black female actuary from the University of Pretoria (UP).
Posted on December 08, 2017
Mr Nick de Beer, a lecturer in Chemistry in the Faculty of Natural- and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) at the University of Pretoria, was voted the Best First-year Lecturer in the Faculty on 1 December 2017.
Posted on December 07, 2017
Professor Paulette Bloomer has been appointed as Head of the newly merged Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Pretoria from 1 January 2018.
Posted on November 30, 2017
The twelfth annual shared-facility training programme for the Collaborative Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics (CMAAE) at the University of Pretoria (UP), brought together students from 16 African universities, and has ranked UP as one of the best institutions engaged in the...
Posted on November 29, 2017
The first world conference on sorghum in over 30 years will be hosted jointly by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet of Kansas State University, USA, and the University of Pretoria (UP) in April 2018.
Posted on November 23, 2017
The University of Pretoria (UP) is ranked among the top 40 universities in the BRICS region, according to the QS BRICS University Rankings published last night. UP has improved its overall position in South Africa by moving from fourth place last year to third this year.
Posted on November 22, 2017
The production of the annual Research Review is always a highlight in the research calendar of the University of Pretoria, and the Research Review 2016 was no exception.
Posted on November 21, 2017
Melissa van der Merwe from the University of Pretoria's Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development not only represented the University at the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) Conference in Miami, Florida, but was also part of the case...
Posted on November 21, 2017
The University of Pretoria's Dr Pieter Olivier is part of an international collaboration whose work was recently published in Nature. The study highlights how biodiversity is changing as a result of deforestation.
Posted on November 20, 2017
Earlier this year, the Centre for Geoinformation Science (CGIS) at the University of Pretoria hosted the 2017 Winter School on Participatory Sensing as part of the Geomatics and Participation project between UP and the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in Germany.
Posted on November 17, 2017
Prof Bernard Slippers has officially been appointed as Professor and Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria from 1 January 2018.
Posted on November 14, 2017
Not only did the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) celebrate a hundred years of agriculture at a prestigious event earlier this month, but it also recognised Dr Johan van Zyl, former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of UP and current CEO of African...
Posted on November 13, 2017
According to Prof Frans Swanepoel, one of the major reasons that the agricultural sector is currently unable to realise its full potential is the fact that education and training practices is in need of a very serious overhaul.
Posted on November 08, 2017
Researchers at the University of Pretoria form part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project in the Northern Cape's Kuruman River Reserve, which has studied groups of wild meerkats for over 20 years.
Posted on November 07, 2017
Storme de Scally, a student at the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, won the best oral presentation at the 2017 Annual Genetics Postgraduate Student Symposium. Storme is currently in the final stages of her Master's degree in Genetics, and works on microbial communities in the Southern...
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