Wetlands play a vital role in our daily lives

Posted on February 02, 2021

2 February is World Wetlands Day. This year’s theme is Wetlands and Water. The Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) also celebrates this day and wants to increase awareness and support for the vital role that wetlands play in our daily lives.

Natural success: TuksNovation helps UP students turn passion for medicinal plant science into skincare business

Posted on January 28, 2021

A start-up company founded by two postgraduate UP students, incubated by UP’s TuksNovation, is starting to turn heads in the natural skincare products market.

Big year for forestry at UP

Posted on December 09, 2020

Not only did the Forestry Programme at the University of Pretoria (UP) celebrate ten years in 2020, but Prof Paxie Chirwa, the incumbent of the South African Forestry Companies Limited (SAFCOL) Forestry Chair, co-edited a book on the Miombo Woodlands.

MSc student attends international Plant Breeders congress

Posted on December 03, 2020

Ms Ingrid Marais, an MSc Biotechnology student in the Molecular Plant Pathogen Interactions research group in the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) and the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Pretoria, was recently selected to attend the National...

Latest T&L@NAS Bulletin (2020) now available

Posted on February 06, 2020

Latest T&L@NAS Bulletin (2020) now available

International Year of Plant Health

Posted on January 10, 2020

The division of Plant Pathology in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences is proud to join in celebrating 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health.

NAS celebrates excellence in teaching

Posted on December 16, 2019

What started off as a departmental initiative grew exponentially and culminated in an awards ceremony where excellence in teaching was celebrated at Faculty level. At the last FLY@NAS event for 2019, cluster awards in all four clusters (Biological Sciences, Food and Agricultural Sciences,...

University of Pretoria: Striving to Feed 10 Billion People by 2050

Posted on December 05, 2019

One year ago United Nations Academic Impact announced the inauguration of the UNAI SDG Hubs, UNAI member institutions selected as exemplars for their innovative scholarship and engagement related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) who serve as resources for best practices for the UNAI...