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  • WELCOME TO NAS: Meet Mr Manfred Molomo

    Posted on July 23, 2021

    Meet Mr Manfred Molomo, Faculty Manager in the Dean’s Office in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), who was appointed to NAS in June this year.

  • R4.5m Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme research grant will help UP document SA biodiversity

    Posted on July 09, 2021

    Funding for the UP Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences project, which will focus on surveying the animal and plant life in the Waterberg Mountain Complex, includes support for citizen science and community engagement activities.

  • Passion, perseverance and vision essential being a scientist

    Posted on June 05, 2021

    Scarce skills in the natural and agricultural sciences Focus on a soil scientist: Prof Eyob H Tesfamariam - Associate Professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences

  • ARUA Early-Career Research Fellowships

    Posted on May 13, 2021

    Research Fellowship initiated by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to support a total of thirteen (13) Early-Career Research Fellows to undertake globally competitive research at the ARUA Centres of Excellence (CoEs).

  • UP academics win big at SA Academy for Science and the Arts Awards

    Posted on May 06, 2021

    Congratulations to the 10 UP academics and researchers who won big at the recently announced Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and the Arts) annual awards.

  • Science is exhilarating

    Posted on April 22, 2021

    NAS Featured scientist: Prof Lise Korsten (Professor in Plant Pathology and Co-Director of the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security

  • NAS celebrates Human Rights

    Posted on March 21, 2021

    In celebration of Human Rights Day today (21 March), we asked a few staff members from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) to share their views on human rights.

  • Science is almost like a calling

    Posted on March 21, 2021

    NAS Featured scientist, Prof Paxie W Chirwa (SAFCOL Forest Chair and Director of the Forest Science Postgraduate Programme)

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