Posted on March 02, 2016
Twenty-two outstanding scientists from major regions in Africa will participate in the second round of the Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP). The scientists represent basic and applied sciences, and span a wide variety of disciplines including the social sciences and humanities.
Posted on February 18, 2016
Scientists from the University of Pretoria (UP) were recently featured in an episode of Teenagers on a Mission (TOMz), a creative and innovative programme of SABC Education, aimed at the youth of South Africa.
Posted on February 12, 2016
The Department of Zoology and Entomology’s Prof Sue Nicolson, her colleague Prof Christian Pirk, and the Honeybee Research Group at UP are investigating how bees cope with varying diets.
Posted on February 11, 2016
A team of postgraduate Geoinformation Science students from the Centre for Geoinformation Science (CGIS) recently won the climate change category at the Durban AgriHack Talent Challenge.
Posted on January 07, 2016
While Gauteng is experiencing one of the driest and hottest summers in years, the University of Pretoria has to ensure that it adheres to water restrictions while maintaining one of its biggest assets – its environment.
Posted on January 04, 2016
Parts of the country were subjected to severe hailstorms towards the end of last year and hailstones the size of tennis balls inflicted massive damage. Dr Liesl Dyson explains the science behind this weather phenomenon.
Posted on December 14, 2015
In a time of worrying discoveries about the state of our planet's climate, new research on emotive communication offers new avenues to effect behaviour change in favour of mitigating climate change.
Posted on December 11, 2015
Two academics from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), Dr Patricia Forbes and Ms Thea Corbett, were awarded first prizes at the Reimagine Education 2015 Conference in Philadelphia on 8 December 2015.
Posted on December 07, 2015
Mr Shehu S Awandu, a PhD student at the University of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) won the trophy as best presenter at the Limpopo Provincial Health Research day held in Polokwane in November 2015.
Posted on December 07, 2015
One staff member and two PhD students from the University of Pretoria won three of the twelve fellowships awarded by the 2015 L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa 2015 programme.
Posted on December 03, 2015
When a giant baobab toppled over in the Pafuri area of the Kruger National Park a number of years ago, researchers from UP had a hunch that the fallen giant could give them access to a wealth of information about the past.
Posted on December 01, 2015
Prof Jannes Jansen van Ryssen, an extraordinary professor in the Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences at the University of Pretoria, was recently awarded the Gold Medal from the South African Society for Animal Science (SASAS).
Posted on November 24, 2015
In celebration of the International Cartographic Association’s International Map Year, the Centre for Geo-information Science at UP hosted a Mini-conference to showcase the role of maps in research conducted at the University.
Posted on November 19, 2015
Prof Bob Millar, an internationally recognised scientist at the University of Pretoria (UP) is the winner of the 2016 John FW Herschel Medal in recognition of his highly distinguished multidisciplinary contributions to the furtherance of science.
Posted on November 18, 2015
A PhD student in the Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, Nadia Swanepoel, was recently awarded two prestigious international scholarships.
Posted on November 17, 2015
Dr Taneshka Kruger, from the UP CSMC is very passionate about eliminating malaria in South Africa, and eventually in Africa as a whole and has been involved in research on the subject for a number of years.
Posted on November 16, 2015
The Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics recently made their presence felt at the 58th Annual Congress of the South African Mathematics Society (SAMS). Two staff members were elected as council members and two PhD students received awards for their presentations.
Posted on November 10, 2015
Prof Braam van Wyk, a world renowned botanist and plant taxonomist from the Department of Plant Science at the University of Pretoria, was recently honoured with an Alumni Award of Excellence by the North-West University (NWU).
Posted on November 06, 2015
Earlier this year, two PhD candidates in food science from the University of Pretoria (UP), were among a group of only 19 students from across the world selected to present papers at the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP).
Posted on November 05, 2015
Dr Abdullahi Yusuf of the Social Insects Research Group (SIRG) in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at UP, was awarded a Georg Forster Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany.
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